Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 10, 2010
A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek &# by Tim Ferriss. It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. The term was known by maybe a few dozen people. Being an evangelist for these ideas earned me a regular diet of funny looks and patronizing comments. At that time, my wildest dreams did not include even a fraction of whats happened since.
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Software By Rob
JANUARY 12, 2010
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← The Two iPhone App Stores, Lessons from a “Pay What You Want&# Sale, Lessons of Failure, and more… Why You Should Re-architect Your Career to Amplify Your Strengths → Startup Marketing Part 3: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 12, 2010
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main. | Bottom Up Market Sizing » January 12, 2010. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. Investors sometimes “
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
JANUARY 12, 2010
I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I would love to say that I’m the productivity guru. Unfortunately my wife reads my blog and she’d log in and add comments to dispel this rumor (she keeps me honest.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 15, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. This time, Im discussing the challenge for corporate CFOs and VCs alike in holding entrepreneurs accountable. Of course, the method I recommend, that of using quantified learning as a yardstick, is of equal interest to disciplined entrepreneurs.
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deal architect
JANUARY 14, 2010
…but unlike in the movie Network, don’t open the window, don’t stick your head out and don’t yell “I am mad as hell.” Instead make a phone call…more about that it a minute. SAP today announced “that it will reinstate. Tags: Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP).
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 15, 2010
Last night I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum event started by Jason Calacanis , a fellow LA resident. Jason started the Open Angel Forum in response to his frustration that entrepreneurs were being charged by some angel organizations to present at their events. He wrote an excellent blog post on this topic. As a former entrepreneur, I’m a big supporter of Jason’s goals.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 11, 2010
Sometimes what sounds like bad news when talking to customers might be your finest hour. Hypothesis Testing. As we started E.piphany, we got out of the building to test our hypotheses by talking to potential customers in and around Silicon Valley. On one of our most memorable visits, we met with Joe DiNucci , the VP of Marketing at Silicon Graphics who was generous enough to brainstorm the types of problems corporate marketers had.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 15, 2010
I don't write many meta-posts, but I was just asked for the forty-seventh time which Wordpress plugin I use for this or that. I know I recently said your blogging platform doesn't matter , but it's not that it doesn't matter at all , just that it's not the primary driver of success and shouldn't be the first thing you spend time on. But still I take pride in my work, and that means attention to detail, and that means customizing the blog for both appearances and utility.
deal architect
JANUARY 11, 2010
Dennis Howlett summarizes all the hand wringing around the “shootout” last month at the Sapience conference between the SAP BusinessByDesign and NetSuite. My question is would SAP have taken part? And if it had would it have scored better? As. Tags: Enterprise Software (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP).
Genuine VC
JANUARY 15, 2010
For the past five years, I’ve been organizing a regular event here in Boston called the Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. It’s been personally fulfilling to start something which begun as a small informal gathering grow into a real component of the local startup scene (and now drawing people from New York and Washington DC).
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 15, 2010
Over the holidays, I found myself having two, long layovers in Milwaukee’s airport and in need of a good meal. As I walked past several gates, I noticed a lot of people eating and drinking at an Italian restaurant/sports bar. Great! Finally, I’ll get to rest and stop my grumbling stomach. Then, I opened the [.
BeyondVC
JANUARY 14, 2010
While 2009 was a tough year, I must say that it was nice to see a number of our portfolio companies have blow out 4th quarters for bookings and growth. Despite that, I am still taking a cautiously optimistic approach to 2010. There are still conflicting reports on the growth of the economy and it is unclear whether Q4 was the release of some pent-up demand of if it will be more indicative of sustainable new spending on technology.
deal architect
JANUARY 11, 2010
I cannot imagine getting to 10 million lifetime frequent flyer miles like George Clooney does in the new movie. I am surprised they missed the opportunity to show him working as a tech consultant who flies each week. Having said.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 15, 2010
For the past five years, I’ve been organizing a regular event here in Boston called the Web Innovators Group (aka “WebInno”). Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. It’s been personally fulfilling to start something which begun as a small informal gathering grow into a real component of the local startup scene (and now drawing people from New York and Washington DC).
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 11, 2010
I’ll admit it: Everytime I hear that familiar “Ra-ra, ah-ah ah-ah, Ra-ma ra ma-ma, Ga-ga ooh la-la”, I crank up the volume. The outlandishly costumed fellow former Upper East Side prep schooler has garnered some serious mass appeal over the last two years. But what can you attribute Ms. Germanotta’s success to, and moreover, what can the average tech startup learn from it?
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 11, 2010
I hate most interviews , and I think everyone else does too. They're rarely actionable or insightful. This interview is uncommonly different. In the last interview Peldi Guilizzoni (Balsamiq Studios) gave detailed advice about how he earned almost a million dollars in revenue in his first year of operation. In this installment we hear from startup expert Bob Walsh , whose many works for startup founders include: Blog: 47 Hats.
Babbling VC
JANUARY 13, 2010
To those of you not familiar with the term "shopping around", it basically means bombarding your targets with your product, in this case a business plan. It's common knowledge that when you go out to raise money you don't send your business plan to any and every VC. You pick wisely a small group whose portfolio you might fit into and try to get intros to them.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JANUARY 15, 2010
Meals from the Heartland (@MftH) is a charity with a simple purpose: send meals to people who are starving. Volunteers, mostly from Iowa where the charity is based, packaged up 4 million meals last year. Even before the recent earthquake disaster in Haiti, that troubled country was a primary destination for the packaged meals. In fact, [.]. Tags: Inspirational Politics & Government @MftH charity Gregg Fraley Haiti Haitian earthquake crisis Iowa Mark Aeilts Meals from the Heartland starvati
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 10, 2010
Being in China right now I am more convinced than ever that when historians look back at the end of the first decade of the 21st century, they will say that the most important thing to happen was not the Great Recession, but China’s Green Leap Forward. The Beijing leadership clearly understands that the E.T. — Energy Technology — revolution is both a necessity and an opportunity, and they do not intend to miss it.
OnlyOnce
JANUARY 14, 2010
As I mentioned in some recent posts , I’ve really enjoyed sharing the Return Path story with the tech start-up community in New York through groups like the NYC Lean Startup Meetup. Next week I’m taking the Return Path story on the road to Silicon Valley where I’ll be presenting to Startup2Startup. Startup2Startup is a group of Silicon Valley geeks, entrepreneurs, and investors dedicated to educating and helping the next generation of Internet startups.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
JANUARY 12, 2010
I was browsing through the web reading things here and there and ran into an article about a Datecheck iPhone app. For some reason, I really like dating business ideas. I think that one day I’ll start a dating business myself, but that will be a different blog entry. Imagine this, you’re on a date with someone or perhaps you are about talking to some random guy and you decide on your way to the bathroom to do a background check using your iPhone.
Andrew Payne
JANUARY 11, 2010
I seem to have two types of friends: those that like Facebook and those that hate it. The haters have a range of explanations, but the common theme seems to be: ”I don’t need a tool to manage my friendships!” I like Facebook quite a bit, and I think I’ve finally figured out the core of why it works so well. (Maybe I’m just slow).
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 11, 2010
If you need to replicate yourself to attend any of these events, remember: Don't make a copy of a copy! Tuesday, January 12th 6:30PM Agile UX at the Economist (Waitlist only) The Economist online will share their experiences, successes and lessons learned around practicing user-centered design in an Agile development process. This includes user research and testing, Drupal-based surveys, collaborative design tools using Google docs and a Drupal-based site called Good Ideas that supports collabor
Startup Company Lawyer
JANUARY 11, 2010
I seem to be doing a lot of pre-Series A convertible bridge note financings these days. As I have written previously , I think that convertible notes with even large conversion price discounts (e.g. 50%) or warrant coverage are typically more company-favorable than a Series A financing where a valuation is set. After completing a lot of convertible debt deals over the last year on behalf of both companies and investors, I have refined some of my thoughts about pre-Series A convertible debt term
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
JANUARY 11, 2010
There was an article on msnbc.com talking about tech firms targeting Moms. Based on a survey by Babycenter.com (a good website for everything about babies / pregnancy), about 1,000 Mommies divulged their tech buying / use behavior. The article talks about how Mommies are the “Chief Memory Officer&# of the home, they use technology to capture the memories of their kids / life.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 10, 2010
I confess to being a Shrek fan. My kids made me (well, sort of) buy the music CD to Shrek 2 and my favorite song on that CD is the Jennifer Saunders song - "Holding Out For A Hero". When they were little we would play it over and over again in the car. I had that song ringing in my head as I joined a few other start-up mavens at a recent gathering last week organized by Scott Kirsner at the Microsoft NERD Center in Kendall Square.
Small Business Force
JANUARY 12, 2010
Business Master QuickTip - Product Development All too often I have encountered new entrepreneurs who tell me that their product is so unique that it has no competition and riches are just around the corner. As I explain to them, I believe fire has already been discovered (that's the last great invention that really had no precedent or competition)!
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 13, 2010
One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. I’m constantly struggling with trying to figure out the best way to pull together solutions, especially with how fast things move. In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Fr
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
JANUARY 13, 2010
Back in the days of high school, I joined a marketing club called DECA. I credit the club in shaping my passion for business. For DECA, I managed the operations of my high school’s espresso coffee cart covering sales and purchasing of coffee and snack products. For DECA competition in a written business plan category, I placed first in the state competition and top eight in the national competition.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 14, 2010
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao-tzu. If you read the academic literature or business press, you might believe that large companies and their business models are brought by the stork. This series of posts are going to offer a new three-stage model of how startups grow into large companies. And I’ll end with some thoughts about a new approach to entrepreneurial education using this model.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 13, 2010
Have you ever driven a car that had no speedometer? I had that thrill when a student at the Richard Petty Stockcar School of Driving recently at a motor speedway in California. With a wide track, angled aggressively at the curves, and being told to hug the wall on the straightaways, there was little reference available to a novice driver as to speed.
Sophia Perl of Wisdom
JANUARY 15, 2010
I want to say first that I went to school down in southern California and I still love it down there however for my industry, technology, I love it up here. Let’s talk about the cons of San Francisco Bay area: Expensive housing. Besides San Francisco, very spread out, made up of many cities like Mountain View, San Jose, Palo Alto, etc. For you single men, there are not a lot of women.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 14, 2010
Today's announcement of our investment in oneforty is a useful prompt to talk about why I'm a big believer (and now investor) in the real-time Web. The real-time Web (i.e., the overwhelming stream of instant, free flowing information available digitally) is clearly hitting the mainstream. One can declare this confidently when even CNN calls it a "top 10 trend" for 2010.
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