Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. Yesterday I had lunch with a really interesting and capable serial entrepreneur who is raising his A round. The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up. It felt like Groundhog Day because I have this conversation again and again – literally dozens of times each year. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company.
Cracking the Code
DECEMBER 1, 2009
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, December 01, 2009. Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and Cloud Computing business. As we get close to the end of the year, I thought it would be interesting to put together a post on how to approach the 2010 planning.
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Software By Rob
DECEMBER 2, 2009
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Steve Blank
DECEMBER 3, 2009
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
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
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2009
Handling PR with VCs. This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day. He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress.
Seeing Both Sides
DECEMBER 3, 2009
A lot has been written in the last week about the scandal at Canopy Financial , a venture-backed, high-flying start-up that attracted $75 million in capital at increasingly higher prices from top-tier firms, only to come crashing down in a dust of rubble and fraud. The VC community suffered a very similar scandal at Seattle-based Entellium last year, but few reporters seem to remember that one, perhaps because it wasn't located in the heart of Silicon Valley as Canopy was. &#
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
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
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 1, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice. I was reading one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs, VentureHacks, this weekend and noticed that they are running a long piece on how to pick a co-founder. If you’ve read my blog for a while you’ll know that I’m a fan of starting businesses in a non-traditional way. I recommend that you start a company by yourself and own 100% of it.
Babbling VC
DECEMBER 2, 2009
This post is very much directed at early stage companies in Germany as this is where I'm seeing it the most. Too many entrepreneurs are scared to take decisions. They are too often looking to their VC's to get consensus. I've seen this case both in portfolio companies where we've already invested as well as from targets we are considering for investment.
Rembrandt Communications
DECEMBER 3, 2009
Recently, I received a message from one of the members of the “Rembrandt Writes Insights®” Newsletter. As a successful business owner and avid traveler, Ralph Velasco has some great tips to share with other entrepreneurs. Here’s what Ralph had to say: Tell us about your business and why you chose to go into it? I’ve [.].
Eric Friedman
DECEMBER 2, 2009
I hear this number a lot – 99.99%. It is usually within this context: Me: Is it a done deal? Them: Yeah totally. Me: Is the deal signed? Them: No, but it is 99.99% going to happen… This can apply to so many different things but I thought I would share a few examples below. The advertising deal. This one usually comes with different odds – somewhere in the 50%+ range. “We are about 60% certain this IO is going to get signed” This applies to a few different cases but
Berkonomics
DECEMBER 2, 2009
I have a business friend, an experienced manager and teacher with a Harvard MBA, whose creativity and intelligence are admired by many. But he dilutes his effectiveness with wordy PowerPoint presentations. It has become a long running joke between us, as I often remind him that most of us have a very limited attention span and ability to recall important points from a presentation.
VC Adventure
DECEMBER 4, 2009
There’s a great CNN opinion piece out today by Amy M. Wilkinson that argues strongly (and correctly) that the government needs to do more to support entrepreneurship and small businesses. I whole heartedly agree. Quoting from the piece: “According to the Census Bureau, nearly all net job creation in the U.S. since 1980 has been generated by firms operating less than five years.
aweissman.com
DECEMBER 2, 2009
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Dec 2, 2009. You Cant Make Word of Mouth Viral. " Virality is something that has to be engineered from the beginning…and it’s harder to create virality than it is to create a good product. Thats why we often see good products with poor virality , and poor products with good virality.
Altgate
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT Some Practical Advice on Executive Compensation at Startups → 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results Posted on November 30, 2009 by fnazeeri This Thursday, December 3rd, the results of the 2009 executive compensation survey will be detailed and broken down in two 90-minute webinars (one each for Life Sciences and Technolog
VC Adventure
DECEMBER 2, 2009
This is a cross-post from our Foundry blog entry on our latest investment - in the microblogging company StockTwits. I've been working closely with Howard and Soren from the company as well as StockTwits investors Roger Ehrenberg and Tony Conrad as we've looked at the investment and worked on the financing. These guys are fantastic! For me it's the chance to work with this team that's the most exciting thing about today's announcement.
Software By Rob
DECEMBER 3, 2009
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VC Adventure
DECEMBER 1, 2009
Online technology magazine Xconomy wrote an article yesterday that focused on the controversy surrounding Boston based Revolutionary Angels - the angel group that is sponsoring a business plan competition in which companies are charged a $4,995 "entry fee" and vie for a $250k investment from the group. I wrote extensively last week about my distaste for the "pay to pitch" practice in general and Revolutionary Angels' spin on that practice in particular.
Software By Rob
DECEMBER 2, 2009
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