Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 craze. There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 wares. Ajax was the new buzzword and many companies went overboard.
venturedig.com
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
The business models within the social media realm are much different than traditional businesses. In social networking, they’re ever-changing, backed by eye-opening revenue and have very little documentation. Reason : as soon as someone sits down to outline ways social networks can be monetized, another model emerges, and another model ceases.
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Software By Rob
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Crowdsourcing Your Product Name My Pecha Kucha Presentation at the 2009 Business of Software Conference → RSS Troubles (FeedBurner) About this Blog If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Because I was the Acting CTO for eHarmony at it's start, I quite often get introduced to people who have an idea for a startup company that is based on some kind of matching algorithm. They describe the company as the eHarmony of careers, clothes, jobs, college, tutoring services, doctors, service companies, investments, etc. In fact, you can get a good idea of these various things by just searching on Google for "eHarmony of" startup.
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 1, 2009
Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. In the first 4 years of running BuildOnline we were an “Outside In&# organization.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
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SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
This is part of my Startup Advice series. I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs – both young and more mature – whether they should join company “X&# or not. I usually pull the old trick of answering a question with a question. My reply is usually, “is it time for you to earn or to learn?&#. Let’s face it.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 2, 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
Rembrandt Communications
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
As a new business owner, it’s easy to rush through publicity efforts in order to concentrate or core business activities and priorities. But before you contact the media or post a press release, ask yourself if the information you’re about to send is really newsworthy. Will a reporter really care about what you have to [.
Babbling VC
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
I've often made the dating reference when it comes to VC's and entrepreneurs. Well, there's one further point which I want to make clear, although to many it's obvious. After we invest, we want to eventually sell our stake. Be it via an IPO or a trade sale, we eventually want out. This means that our premise for investing is taking the money we initially invest and increasing it tenfold or better.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts. I heard Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Capital say these words at a conference in London nearly 10 years ago. I jotted the words down (I normally pay little attention to anything said at conferences. Most of it is BS) and thought about them much over the years. I later learned that the quote was taken from somewhere else ( perhaps as early as the 13th century!
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
I read a couple of articles talking about how women are making money in this tough economy. Now now now, don’t get ahead of yourself and assume you know what. Women are selling their clothes to other women. The way it works is that a woman will invite her friends over to check out her clothes which are usually on display in a room in the “seller’s&# home.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Join Grant Thornton for a free Webcast on A Wake-Up Call for America, the greatly anticipated study demonstrating how market structure changes over the past 10 years have had a profound negative effect on the number of publicly listed companies in the United States – ultimately inhibiting economic recovery, worsening the job market and undermining U.S. competitiveness.
entrepreMusings
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
I’m seriously considering a very long blogging break while I figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Or shall I say what I want this blog to be as it grows up. The posts have been kind of random lately…a bit out of focus like I feel these days. I was having lunch with one of my advisers today who always pumps me up. He’s almost 70 years old and calls himself a recycled dad because he has grand kids older than his youngest kids.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 1, 2009
Last Friday I was on This Week in Startups with Jason Calacanis. Lots of great discussions here. Ok, I know it’s an hour-long video, but if you have time in the evening, we had a series of great discussions once you get 6 minutes in or so past the upfront advertisements. Topics include: - Should you raise money at a high price and then just spend it slowly?
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Real quick, I’m back blogging. I just took a break. Tis the season for Halloween photo ops. I attended an event where a local photography gave attendees a free 5×7 picture. I stood in the long line like everyone else and took a picture. Then I waited in another line to get the printed picture. I put my name and email address on a sheet and the photo number that was printed.
Pascal's View
OCTOBER 31, 2009
Aline van Duyn of The Financial Times reports that the U.S. listed capital markets have been in systemic decline for many years, quoting the forthcoming Grant Thornton study which will be released November 9th: The analysis finds that the number of US exchange-listed companies is down by more than 22 per cent since 1991 and down by 53 per cent when allowing for real, inflation-adjusted gross domestic product growth.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Great post by Mark Geller What Goes in V1.0? He talks about something that I end up discussing a lot with startups. What do you put in that first version? Or more appropriately, the first few versions? Mark does a good job capturing the essence of the issue: These days, the role of V1.0 is harder to define. It is certainly not the first version of your product you will put in the hands of non-team-members.
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