ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, I arrived in Chennai at 3 a.m. after a 24-hour journey from California. At 11 a.m., a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. TiE Chennai organized a Startup Super Day, during which I delivered the keynote address followed by a live strategy roundtable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2011

We are talking about angel investors here, meaning people who invest their own money in early-stage startups for a share of the equity. These people are highly focused on investment areas they know, which have a large opportunity for growth, revenue projection of $20M or more in five years, and a high return that can be realized via an exit within five years.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

Entrepreneurs always seem to have great insights to share derived from their very real experiences. Unlike most people, many entrepreneurs are an open book, willing to share everything they know and have done with anyone willing to listen. They're thankful for all those other entrepreneurs they looked up to when they were just starting out, who were sharing all of their great, unfiltered wisdom.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 14, 2011

I spent a full day at MIT last month rolling around in a bunch of really cool tech. One of the meetings led to today’s Brad Feld Amazing Deal for OoOTies. I had just sat through three meetings with MIT-related entrepreneurs – two who showed me new human instrumentation products and one who walked me through a new way to develop Android apps.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 14, 2011

A few months ago a Dunkin Donuts opened up less than a quarter mile from our office. Not good. I mean, do we really need another unhealthy temptation? Now, interestingly, I have to drive by it EVERY time I go to get my lunch. Fortunately, my lunch is a healthy salad from the organic supermarket just a little further up the road. So, as you can see, I try to eat really healthy every day.

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Up and Running

APRIL 14, 2011

Tweet I think my friends are a little envious of my schedule. They shouldn’t be. There are many days when I would love to trade, but from a distance traveling can look fun. When I was in business school, the thought of flying across the country for business meetings seemed exciting. When I started my career, I did the grunt work and watched as my management team shot across the country to meet with clients.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 14, 2011

Book Short: Vive La Difference. Brain Sex , by Anne Moir and David Jessell, was a fascinating read that I finished recently. I will caveat this post up front that the book was published in 1989, so one thing I’m not sure of is whether there’s been more recent research that contradicts any of the book’s conclusions. I will also caveat that this is a complex topic with many different schools of thought based on varying research, and this book short should serve as a starting p

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 14, 2011

So much for the Be a Tiger campaign. It’s time to go out and be a honey badger. And a badass one at that. PS – If I was starting a new university, I’d seriously give thought to making them the honey badgers.

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