Occam's Razor
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Michael, politely, says in an email: "I have done web analytics for five years, I have mastered Omniture, WebTrends and Google Analytics, I provide analysis and not just reporting. I feel like am an Analytics God. What would be your advice for me in terms of next steps for my career? My goal is to climb the ranks and increase my salary." Let me hasten to add two things.
Software By Rob
DECEMBER 3, 2008
Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← WordPress Headaches with Closing HTML Tag – Any Ideas? 8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career → Problems (For the Most Part) Resolved with WordPress and DreamHost About this Blog If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. Finding great engineers is hard; figuring out whos good is even harder. The most important step in evaluating a candidate is conducting a good technical interview. If done right, a programming interview serves two purposes simultaneously.
abovethecrowd.com
DECEMBER 1, 2008
“People see you having fun Just a-lying in the sun Tell them that you like it this way” – BTO, Takin’ Care of Business The seemingly chronic state of our economy, combined with the thundering sound of dire financial news has left many in a state of shock. This unprecedented moment in time [.].
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
Andrew Payne
DECEMBER 4, 2008
Jeff Bussgang wrote a great post about how VCs manage reserves. When a VC invests, they allocate (reserve) some additional amount for follow-on financing. For example, a company may raise $5m for Series A, but the fund will reserve $10m for Series B, C, etc. In the current climate, many reserve models are at risk of blowing up: VCs that assumed additional investors for later rounds may find themselves doing all the funding themselves (the “inside round”).
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abovethecrowd.com
DECEMBER 5, 2008
Over three years ago, I wrote a post titled, “Do VCs Help in Building a Technology Platform?“ The premise (as you can go see), was that VCs who once primarily invested in companies built on Microsoft’s platform, had almost universal switched to the open source LAMP stack as their technology platform of choice. This activity obviously helps [.
Andrew Payne
DECEMBER 4, 2008
Last Christmas, I got my daughter an Asus EEE PC netbook. We were one rev too early; the screen’s just slightly too small for Webkinz. But netbooks are great “first computers” for kids: small, light, and cheap enough it’s not a total disaster if it breaks. Plus, flash-drive models have no hard disk to fail, the leading cause of laptop destruction among kids.
K9 Ventures
NOVEMBER 30, 2008
The business of venture capital is relatively young. The birth of modern-day venture capital (not considering the European monarchs financing explorations and projects as venture capital) can be traced back to American Research and Development, which was started by Georges Doriot. Spencer Ante ‘s book Creative Capital provides and in-depth history of the life of Georges Doriot.
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