Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 5, 2010
This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. I then covered Street Smarts , Ability to Pivot , Resiliency , Inspiration and Perspiration.
SoCal CTO
JANUARY 7, 2010
This is purely anecdotal, but it seems like a lot of companies are hiring technology talent here in Southern California. I’ve recently seen several tweets from software development companies looking for talent. And I’ve heard from several people looking for Startup Software Developers. And we have been looking to hire several positions (but are being really picky as is normally the case).
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 7, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? (for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010.
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 6, 2010
The new year is such a wonderful time. Wonderful smells in the air. The world is full of hope. Unachievable things seem achievable and are being polished into shiny resolutions. World peace seems within grasp. As we spring to action full of passion I wanted to share with you all a short list of things that will expand your little world of online marketing & web analytics.
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
Steve Blank
JANUARY 4, 2010
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood …. Daniel Burnham. A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. How can you tell if your startup has the potential to be the next Google, Intel or Facebook? A first order filter is whether the founders are aiming for a scalable startup.
deal architect
JANUARY 6, 2010
I will be joining Phil Wainewright, Dennis Howlett and Narinder Singh, one of the co-founders of appirio in a session on cloud trends on Wednesday, January 13. Register here - the marketing promises we will make sense of the "myriad.
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Genuine VC
JANUARY 5, 2010
Whenever I am navigating through the notorious Boston traffic, I am often reminded of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority. That is, the “above average effect,” which “causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and to underestimate their negative qualities, relative to others.” The Wikipedia article on the subject cites the classic study where a full 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top half of the driving population.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 7, 2010
This post is the latest in the “ Secret History Series.” They’ll make much more sense if you read some of the earlier ones for context. See the Secret History bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. ———————–. The Future is Clear – Microwave Valley Forever. In 1956 Hewlett Packard, back then a maker of test equipment was the valley’s largest electronics employer with 900 employees.
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 7, 2010
If you are like most small business owners, you are working harder than ever to find and secure new business in today’s uncertain economy. It can be tough to exceed customer expectations, conduct marketing and PR efforts, pay bills, and keep things running smoothly on a tight budget. With this in mind, here are five [.].
abovethecrowd.com
JANUARY 5, 2010
[Follow Me on Twitter] In a recent New York Times article, Kathryn Huberty, a Morgan Stanley analyst was quoted suggesting that Apple’s iPhone is the key catalyst for an important new technology trend. “Applications make the smartphone trend a revolutionary trend – one we haven’t seen in consumer technology for many years.” This argument rings [.].
Genuine VC
JANUARY 7, 2010
Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. This startup had a little technology called AdSense which allowed for the presentation of contextually relevant ads on a set of distributed publisher sites. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today.
Tim Keane
JANUARY 5, 2010
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « How To Change The World | Main. | Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations » January 05, 2010. Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee. T he Angel Capital Educational Foundation’s “Power of Angel Investing” Seminar will be coming to Milwaukee, WI on Friday, February 26th. This well-known event has been presented in most
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 7, 2010
If you are like most small business owners, you are working harder than ever to find and secure new business in today’s uncertain economy. It can be tough to exceed customer expectations, conduct marketing and PR efforts, pay bills, and keep things running smoothly on a tight budget. With this in mind, here are five [.].
OnlyOnce
JANUARY 5, 2010
What Gets Said vs. What Gets Heard I've been on the edge of a few different situations lately at work where what seems like a very clear (even by objective standards) conversation ends up with two very different understandings down the road. This is the problem I'd characterize as "What gets said isn't necessarily what gets heard." More often than not, this is around delivering bad news, but there are other use cases as well.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 5, 2010
Whenever I am navigating through the notorious Boston traffic, I am often reminded of the cognitive bias of illusory superiority. That is, the “above average effect,” which “causes people to overestimate their positive qualities and to underestimate their negative qualities, relative to others.” The Wikipedia article on the subject cites the classic study where a full 93% of U.S. drivers put themselves in the top half of the driving population.
Babbling VC
JANUARY 5, 2010
This is more of a reminder than anything else. I have posted similar items in the past but it bears repeating every now and again. I see entrepreneurs so often drop the ball when it comes to time and momentum. What I mean is that so often momentum is lost because people simply take too much time. A sense of urgency is always necessary. Getting bogged down in analysis ("analysis paralysis") is oftentimes your worst enemy.
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 8, 2010
Startups often desire to shield members of their board of directors from personal liability in connection with their duties on the board. And sometimes potential board members are hesitant to join a startup’s board without sufficient personal liability protection. Therefore, startups can protect their directors in a few ways: (1) Indemnification.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 5, 2010
For decades, the venture capital industry was like a Yale Secret Society - very clubby, discrete and opaque. VCs had all the power in the VC-entrepreneur equation, and entrepreneurs had to work hard to decode the mysterious VC process to obtain funding. My how the world has changed in a few short years. Pundits will tell you that in terms of trends, 2009 was the year of the real-time Web/Twitter, smart phones/iPhone and the mainstream emergence of digital advertising.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 7, 2010
Back in 2003 Google acquired Applied Semantics for just over $100M. This startup had a little technology called AdSense which allowed for the presentation of contextually relevant ads on a set of distributed publisher sites. Obviously this moniker lives on in Google’s ad network, Adsense for Content, which serves as a base for a significant chunk of Google’s revenue today.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 4, 2010
Tired of productivity articles instructing you to break down large projects into smaller, more annoying, and less interesting tasks? Or about how if even the teeniest little thing remains in your inbox at 5:00 on Friday afternoon, then not only will your entire weekend be shot, but also you are a terrible human being ? Well I figured with the New Year ringing in Resolutions about how It's Really Going To Be Different This Time, No Really I Mean It Why Are You Looking At Me Like That, it would be
Berkonomics
JANUARY 6, 2010
Let’s spend a few moments defining a sometimes confusing set of terms. A budget should be created each year as a result of a series of negotiations between departmental managers and their superiors through to the CEO, all in support of the next year’s tactics previously agreed upon (which in turn support the longer term strategies leading to the next goal beyond). .
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. I believe the only way to improve our chances as entrepreneurs is to develop a working theory of entrepreneurship.
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