Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
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Software By Rob
OCTOBER 22, 2009
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup is Really Like, and more… → My Report on StackOverflow DevDays Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 22, 2009
Great by Cliff Allen Business Networking Online who I had blogged about previously in Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. In this post, Cliff provides some feedback on what works when you move towards doing business networking online. I'm trying to get the concept of visible networking going, so his feedback is really valuable. Cliff's feedback: Your idea of "Visible Networking" can help people take the "glad to meet you" networking to the next level -- "g
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
OCTOBER 21, 2009
Montgomery & Co Projects Deal Volume to Grow by 167% in Just 2 Years with No End to Growth in Sight. On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA).
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Heres an excerpt; some of my comments are below: One of the most gut-wrenching moments for a company is the rollout of a new product.
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SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 20, 2009
Based on a question I posted in LinkedIn, Serena Ehrlich posted How to Use Social Media to Find Prospects. Or Sell a House. and provides the following list of suggestions for ways to use social media to build a reputation and to reach prospects. Her list included quite a few things that would likely be much farther down my list: Create short videos of your presentations.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 20, 2009
text. te. M&A Outlook for 2010 / 2011 – text. Tags: Start-up Advice.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 19, 2009
New Amdocs initiative invests in Amobee and other startups. Amdocs introduced its new Open Innovation program recently that will help it connect with startups that relate to its technology. Part of the initiative is Amdocs Venture, an investment fund that has already invested in the mobile technology companies, Amobee and Trivenet.
Rembrandt Communications
OCTOBER 18, 2009
If you have been watching or listening to the news lately, it is packed with negativity concerning the latest unemployment rates, stock market upsets and violence overseas. It’s enough to make your blood pressure soar. Well, I’m not going to let it get to me. What about you? Instead of focusing on all of the [.].
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Sorry - I posted this on the wrong blog.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding.
Eric Friedman
OCTOBER 23, 2009
I recently read an article about 3 ways to pitch yourself and it got me thinking about processing and bottling up your story. The gist of the post are these three key elements: 1. Think relevant, not recent. 2. Focus on skills-based versus situation or industry-based qualifications. 3. Connect the dots — what ties it all together? The third seems to be the most important to me as it indicates why and how you got to this exact spot.
Altgate
OCTOBER 23, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Everything I Need to Know About Entrepreneurship I Learned at the University of Michigan 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results → Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT Posted on October 23, 2009 by fnazeeri A repost from the Viridus blog : Earlier today I was in the audience of students, faculty, local entrepreneurs and politicians at MIT when President Obama
aweissman.com
OCTOBER 23, 2009
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 23, 2009. The Golden Road (to Online Distribution). The technology industry has a seeming lack of institutional memory - the constant cycle of invention and reinvention while barely looking to the past. Its so optimistic in nature. But we sometimes need to look to the past to sharpen our pattern recognition.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2009
Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. I’m not one of those. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today.
Small Business Force
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I don't think there is a question that people ask more. At a talk before several hundred would-be entrepreneurs this past weekend, I was asked it again. So I thought this would be a good place to provide the answer I give time and time again. It's so simple, yet so powerful. While nothing can absolutely ensure success, there are two key traits that dramatically increase the odds for success for an entrepreneur: An unbridled passion for a business concept that fills a specific market need and tha
aweissman.com
OCTOBER 19, 2009
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Oct 19, 2009. I Want To Be A Platform. We all want to create or invest in platform businesses - those that enable other businesses or participants to add features, content, build other things into/onto the platform, extract associated but not directly related content therefrom, thereby creating infinite scale and value.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. This is that post. Value of Blogging I started the presentation talking about the value of blogging.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 23, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, October 23, 2009 Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum viable product How much work should you do on a new product before involving customers? If you subscribe to the theory of the minimum viable product , the answer is: only enough to get meaningful feedback from early adopters. Sometimes the best way to do this is to put up a public beta and drive a limited amount of traffic to it.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 22, 2009
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Professor VC
OCTOBER 20, 2009
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine. I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." In fact, I was cornered by a member of this camp at our recent Sand Hill Angels annual social event at the Wine Room in Palo Alto (great place, by the way).
Pascal's View
OCTOBER 22, 2009
United States Senator Edward Kauffman (D) Delaware wrote a very important opinion piece in last Friday’s Financial Times , shining a light on the opaque technical trading regulations which are the root cause of the IPO drought in the United States, threatening the integrity of our markets and putting at risk an entire generation of innovators.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich I have a new guest post on GigaOm today, called Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich. Heres an excerpt: One of the unfortunate side effects of all the publicity and hype surrounding startups is the idea that entrepreneurship is a guaranteed path to fame and riches.
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