Sat.Nov 07, 2009 - Fri.Nov 13, 2009

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Relentless – The Difference Between Motion And Action

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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How to Deal with Skeletons in your Closet

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital. I recently wrote a post on how to Deal with your Elephants in the Room during your VC meetings. Elephants being big issues that the VC will be thinking whether you bring it to his/her attention or not. My advice with Elephants was that you need to take them head on in your first VC meeting because the VC is already thinking about the issue whether you bring it up or not.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ). He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Tell me a bit about your background. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic.

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Web Analytics 2.0 Book: In Stores Now!!

Occam's Razor

I am absolutely thrilled that my book Web Analytics 2.0 has been released and is in retail stores now, online and offline! Hurray!! Even with a broken right hand I can't help but write this post! The waterfall of positive feeling stems from the fact that this book was very hard to write. I only had one job, at Intuit, when I wrote my first web analytics book.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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“Lessons Learned” – A New Type of Venture Capital Pitch

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Deal with Your Elephant in the Room

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. There’s an old saying that if I’m talking with you and I start the conversation by saying, “whatever you do, DO NOT think about Elephants &# then you can’t help but thinking about elephants while we’re speaking. It’s called “The Elephant in the Room&# and there’s a lot of truth in this adage.

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Resources for My “2009 Business of Software Conference” Pecha.

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← RSS Troubles (FeedBurner) Highlights from the 2009 Business of Software Conference → My Pecha Kucha Presentation at the 2009 Business of Software Conference About this Blog , Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. It has been fun to get to know her again. And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging.

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VC Funding Season Ends Next Week

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital. It’s worth you knowing this so you don’t waste your time. It’s also very important to understand so that you can properly plan when you raise money.

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Cracking The Code: New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. New SaaS 13 Index: Welcome to LogMeIn (Nasdaq: LOGM)! While poised with a limited number of transactions this year, the world of public Cloud Computing and SaaS companies has been marked by two events in the past few months: the acquisition of Omniture by Adobe and the high profile IPO of LogMeIn, a leading provider of PC remote access a

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How to Work with the Media for Free Publicity

Rembrandt Communications

You’ve got an interview scheduled with a key media venue. Great! To have a good experience and improve your chances of being quoted correctly, follow these helpful tips: 1) Know your company. - Review your company’s website, history and key events. - Understand your company’s marketing messages, key practices, products, and services.

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SEO for Startups

SoCal CTO

I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. They are in a space where there is lots of search traffic, but they didn't have anything particularly interesting to say about how they were going to get ranked.

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Google acquires portfolio company Gizmo5

BeyondVC

Congratulations to Michael Robertson and team at Gizmo5 for all of their hard work and perseverance! There is not a lot I can tell you about the future plans for Google Voice , but I do believe it is important to look back to see how we got here. We made our investment in Gizmo5 (aka as sipphone and gizmo project) in early 2006. What Michael and I shared was a vision of openness for the VOIP and IM World.

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New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free)

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 12, 2009 New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free) Greetings from Europe, where Im just wrapping up an incredible (and exhausting) speaking tour. Ive been so busy with talks and travel that I havent had much chance to post updates to the blog, but many of the events here have had video, and I will try and post details soon.

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How to Work with the Media for Free Publicity

Rembrandt Communications

You’ve got an interview scheduled with a key media venue. Great! To have a good experience and improve your chances of being quoted correctly, follow these helpful tips: 1) Know your company. - Review your company’s website, history and key events. - Understand your company’s marketing messages, key practices, products, and services.

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I’m not so crazy about Twitter

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

What’s all the fuss about Twitter ? I’ve been wanting to post something about Twitter for a long time, but I didn’t want to talk about something that I just don’t use too much (not an avid user or follower). So, I like the idea that there’s one place where strangers can “stalk&# other people. I mean Facebook is where friends stalk friends.

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What Makes Boston's Start-Up Scene Special?

Seeing Both Sides

(follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/bussgang ). A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson posted a presentation he delivered on What Makes the NYC Start-Up Scene Special. I was inspired to deliver a similar presentation today to a group of Harvard Business School students who are interested in entrepreneurship in Boston. There's been alot of chatter in the community about a start-up renaissance in Boston.

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Venture’s Back

Jason Ball

I'm sure everyone has been seeing what's happened in the US Equity markets- NASDAQ is up 30%+ YTD, with many stocks like Apple showing 131% gains this year. Strong earnings reports mean public companies have cash to deploy… I attended GP Bullhound's Mobile Sector Breakfast two weeks ago, where Manish reported some positive liquidity stats ( available here ): M&A activity in the mobile sector has seen a 77% increase in transaction value and an increase in transactions over $

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Putting entrepreneurs first | Seth Levine

VC Adventure

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Spencer Fry — Story Time With Carbonmade

Spencer Fry

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What Makes Boston's Start-Up Scene Special? - video

Seeing Both Sides

Here's the video from the talk I gave at HBS on what makes the Boston start-up scene special.

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