Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 15, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series on Start-up Lessons that I learned from founding two companies. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I really, really, really hate it. It chaps my hide. It rips at my core. I don’t get over it easily. I lose sleep. I fucking hate losing. I think about it for months, often years. But I embrace losing. It is how I learn.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 17, 2009
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 20, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. Its the most general-purpose overview Ive written so far, and although it was a lot less specific than my usual, I wanted to share it here, too. Ill share an excerpt and then Id like to ask, once again, for your help.
abovethecrowd.com
AUGUST 20, 2009
As I was driving to work this morning listening to NPR, it became clear to me that this “free vs fee” discussion has some legs (to listen to the NPR piece click here). Last week, Rosetta Stone was back in the news with regards to an earnings miss as well as pulled secondary offering. Over a [.
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
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons.&# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow [.]. Tags: Start-up Advice startup.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 20, 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
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Pascal's View
AUGUST 21, 2009
I will be the keynote speaker at the America Midwest Regional Final competition of the Global Security Challenge (GSC) on September 22nd in Chicago. This event is part of a global competition to deliver innovative solutions to pressing cybersecurity problems. The GSC Security Summit 2009, which will be held November 13 in London, will see the culmination of the six regional finals held around the world in September and October.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 18, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series, “Startup Lessons.&#. Yesterday I wrote a blog post (here) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. Best case scenario in my mind is just 1, but at most I recommend 2. I knew this topic would be controversial because when I tell people this [.]. Tags: Start-up Advice.
Jason Ball
AUGUST 19, 2009
I’ve blogged about my friends at Feeds 2.0 many times over the past few years; I’ve followed the Netflix prize out of interest since it was covered in Wired back in 2007 , mainly because I was rooting for the Feeds 2.0 team… For those of you who may not spend your weekends and evenings reading up on artificial intelligence, here’s an overview of the Netflix competition: Netflix released a large movie rating dataset and challenged the data. mining, machine learning and com
Tim Keane
AUGUST 20, 2009
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Whats Your Alternative? | Main. | Lower values, higher risks? Or a paradise for investors? » August 20, 2009. Are Investors Being Unreasonable? Take a look at this article. from the August 20th Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. It seems to me this may be a sign of the economic times. Or, of course, it's possible that Jaso
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 15, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series on Start-up Lessons that I learned from founding two companies. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I really, really, really hate it. It chaps my hide. It rips at my core. I don’t get over it easily. I lose sleep. I fucking hate losing. It’s not so much the [.]. Tags: Start-up Advice.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC“ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog [.].
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 18, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series, “ Startup Lessons.&#. Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. Best case scenario in my mind is just 1, but at most I recommend 2. I knew this topic would be controversial because when I tell people this in person it always elicits shock. To be clear – it is not about being stingy with or hoarding equity – it is about having a prenuptial agreement.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. The meme was kicked off by Chris Dixon with this post saying that term sheets need to be simplified and align investor / founder interests. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard.
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