Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 16, 2009
This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. 2. Street Smarts - OK, so you’re a tenacious person – you never give up.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. (you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). Mark tells us: there is a lot of demand for developers right here in L.A. If you have solid web skills and a few years experience, either with a commercial company or running your own legit projects, there are dozens of companies in L.A. who would love to talk with you.
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Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Does the world need "tough" entrepreneurial coaches? | Main. | How To Change The World » December 14, 2009. Starting Startups. So, Paul Graham is a brainiac. He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. He writes challenging essays at paulgraham.com
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
DECEMBER 14, 2009
"You need a business plan" is the mantra of MBA types. As they say , businesses don't plan to fail, they fail to plan! Who could argue with such a clever turn of phrase? Let's do some quotes: "Without a business plan, how will you know whether you can make a profit?" ( source ). "A complete business plan should include five-year financial projections.
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
DECEMBER 17, 2009
This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. I then covered Street Smarts. 3. Ability to Pivot – I don’t like to invest in people that I’ve never met before who come through my office wanting to have a term sheet within 30
Software By Rob
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Marketing Part 1: Losing People Through the Bottom of Your Funnel Startup Marketing Part 3: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality → The Two iPhone App Stores, Lessons from a “Pay What You Want&# Sale, Lessons of Failure, and more… Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.
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Altgate
DECEMBER 17, 2009
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Results More “Open Source&# Legal Tools → Some Practical Advice on Executive Compensation at Startups Posted on December 17, 2009 by fnazeeri Because it's that season (bonus season, not holiday season) I've been getting questions about executive compensation from friends. But today I got an interesting ques
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 13, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about comments lately. I recently wrote a post about how to get access to people at conferences and how to connect with people on social networks. These posts encouraged groups of people to provide their thoughts on these topics. As usual we began a dialog with lots of people sharing their points of view. Arnold Waldstein , who stops by periodically on my blog and always leaves relevant comments, made the observation that, “if I want to connect with you, I
Rembrandt Communications
DECEMBER 17, 2009
If you are trying to save money and start the New Year off right, there may be a secret problem lurking in your business. With the stress of trying to balance a budget, pay bills, obtain new customers, and have a life outside of the office, it can be easy to overlook one key element [.].
VC Cafe
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Advice for Start up CEOS: Learn Your ABC (Always Be Closing). Lots of consumer Internet start ups won’t survive 2010 without taking a similar approach to Blake's in Glengarry Glen Ross. Imagine that your investors told you that you’re fired from the CEO role of the company you have founded with blood, sweat and tears. They do however give you a week to win your job back.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2009
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Berkonomics
DECEMBER 16, 2009
It’s time to speak of some sort of business plan. As a professional investor in early stage companies, I have long discounted long, detailed business plans in favor of a concise “executive summary” followed by a believable spreadsheet-based financial forecast projecting three to five years into the future. . Yes, everything does change between drafting that plan and its successful execution.
OnlyOnce
DECEMBER 17, 2009
Pivot, Don't Jump! I spoke last night at the NYC Lean Startup Meetup , which was fun. I will write a couple other posts based on the experience over the next week or so. The Meetup is all about creating "lean startups," not just meaning lean as in cheap and lightweight, but meaning smart at doing product development from the perspective of finding the quickest path to product-market fit.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 16, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 16, 2009 What is Lean about the Lean Startup? The first step in a lean transformation is learning to tell the difference between value-added activities and waste. That foundational idea, so clearly articulated in books like Lean Thinking, is what originally led me to start using the term lean startup.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 18, 2009
This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity. I then covered Street Smarts and Ability to Pivot. 4.
Jason Ball
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Last month I posted suggesting that Venture might be back… The post below from trueventures makes a strong case, that yes, indeed, Venture is back. [link]. Also, I was at Noah earlier in the month; company after company spewed out fantastic stats: Betfair- online betting, 6.5m trades per day, 5 bn pageviews per month, 2.5m registered users, 600k active users, £13bn annual deposits, £300m revenues- £150M UK; £150M international.
Software By Rob
DECEMBER 15, 2009
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Startup Marketing Part 2: Why Focusing on Traffic Can Kill Your Startup The Two iPhone App Stores, Lessons from a “Pay What You Want&# Sale, Lessons of Failure, and more… → Startup Marketing Part 1: Losing People Through the Bottom of Your Funnel Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2009
This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. I wanted to get the conversation going in the comments section around each topic because I think as much value comes from the comments section as comes from the original p
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 14, 2009
“In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.&# Winston Churchill. ——– In March I was the keynote at the In-Q-Tel Venture Capital Conference, giving a talk on the Secret History of Silicon Valley. (In-Q-Tel is the Central Intelligence Agency’s Venture Capital firm in Silicon Valley.).
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