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2000+ students and 100+ creatives engage in a cultural and literary festival building creative confidence

Brandanew

This groundbreaking event promises to showcase the rich cultural tapestry of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, and the Union Territories of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh. Honorable ministers, […] The post 2000+ students and 100+ creatives engage in a cultural and literary festival building creative confidence appeared first on Peerbagh.

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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

This is not dissimilar to the explosion of applications we saw in the mid-2000’s fueled by declining computing costs, cloud infrastructure, and social platforms. Much like the early 2000’s, the market environment is fairly tepid given a prolonged period of weakness in startup financing activity and exits. have to do with timing.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work. Dot Com Boom to Bust. It was a nuclear winter for startup capital.

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How to Get a VC's Attention at an IRL Event

This is going to be BIG.

What Alan recognized was that most IRL forums and networking events are absolutely awful places to pitch and here’s why: 1) When a VC shows up in person, they’re looking to replicate the kind of top of the funnel they would get in an hour or two’s worth of e-mail, and that’s not going to happen if you corral them into a corner for 30 minutes.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Funding Problem.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

This Maker Movement has now spread across the world, spawning hundreds of events and companies, including Maker Faires, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, and Maker Film Fests. Makerspaces and hackerspaces have sites and events, including education and training, where people with common interests can meet, socialize and collaborate.

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The public invisibility of running mid-stage successful companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Some come from lessons you can only learn in the field with 2000+ servers and 100,000+ installations of an application. How we think about the many facets of marketing: branding, positioning, events, advertising, and special projects we haven’t announced yet. Some of it is algorithmic. All that said, I do have more to share.

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