Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2010
Bill Gates once famously said that people tend to overestimate the impact of technology in the 1-year timeframe and underestimate its impact in the 10-year timeframe. That’s always stuck with me. I tend not to go into heat when I hear the latest buzz on the tech blogs about the latest gadgets. But when I read thoughtful pieces on the future of technology I start to imagine where our lives will be in 10 years.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JANUARY 18, 2010
" I feel like a fraud. I've been at this for 16 years and I still feel like a fraud. I'm just waiting for the day they see through the façade, but they keep coming back every year." -- Jason Young. Ah yes, the awe-inspiring words of confidence from the seasoned entrepreneur. My friend Jason intended this as soothing words of solace during (one of my) periods of personal freak-out while Smart Bear was in its infancy.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 18, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.
deal architect
JANUARY 19, 2010
This continues a series of columns from practitioners I respect. The category "Real Deal" describes them well. This time it is Phil Simon, technology consultant and author who describes the learning as he developed his compendium with several other IT. Tags: The Real Deal: Guest Columnist.
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 21, 2010
I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed. Much of this is unfounded – some is not. If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have.
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 22, 2010
Times are tough right now, and the recent earthquake in Haiti really makes us stop and think about our blessings. With this in mind, have you thanked your customers, partners, associates, and media contacts lately? If not, here are three simple ways to use this six-letter word to improve your relationships – and your business: [.].
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deal architect
JANUARY 21, 2010
on the innovation blog Space Shuttle on eBay?! Digital Popular Science Magazine The 3-D technology in Avatar Hallmark’s Century Anniversary Gift Graphene: The wonder nano material.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 19, 2010
I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. Congratulations. You’ve found a VC partner or principal who has invited you to the Monday partners’ meeting. Or on a sales campaign you’ve finally gotten your project sponsor to take you to the “executive committee&# where decisions are made and budgets are agreed.
Rembrandt Communications
JANUARY 22, 2010
Times are tough right now, and the recent earthquake in Haiti really makes us stop and think about our blessings. With this in mind, have you thanked your customers, partners, associates, and media contacts lately? If not, here are three simple ways to use this six-letter word to improve your relationships – and your business: [.].
Occam's Razor
JANUARY 20, 2010
How do you measure success of a online webinar? I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Your KPI questions per attendee was off the chart!
deal architect
JANUARY 18, 2010
On the New Florence blog Haiti Disaster and Technology Unicode 5.2 GE’s Magic Factory The Jesus Phone – version 2.0 Jugaad.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 21, 2010
At First Round , I often hear the term “product-market” fit. Since we often invest before the big “hockey stick” traction that bigger VCs wait for, a lot of times the company is still trying to tweak exactly what service or application will take off in a given market. Sometimes they’re testing various pricing models…other times they’re not sure if it’s a partnership strategy or a direct sales effort that will get the most uptake.
crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 22, 2010
In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Be professional, treat others with respect, help us build something very special, and we’ll take notice.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 20, 2010
This post will be perhaps a bit longer than usual, but certainly of great interest for those with interest in or have need for more capital… This stage is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale).
Eric Friedman
JANUARY 19, 2010
Image via CrunchBase. Over the last few weeks I have been seeing a number of Facebook friend requests from people but wasn’t sure why. Sure enough when I logged in it was clear that Facebook was directing people to “find friends” and told me who else had done so via logging into and scrapping my contact list. In my case using Gmail Facebook was able to go in and find 500 people I am not yet connected with.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 18, 2010
You can get posts like these e-mailed to you once a week on Mondays by going here. Am I the only one that thinks that perhaps Steve Jobs will be introducing two Apple tablets next week. made of stone. from a mountain? Seems like anything less would be a letdown. Oh, and btw. big miss on someone not doing a diversity hack-a-thon on Monday. That would have been awesomesauce.
Growthink Blog
JANUARY 20, 2010
The other day, I confessed to my friend Ned that I made a lot of mistakes early in my internet marketing career. After recording that interview, I decided to shoot a new video showing you exactly how I turned it all around. If you want to know how to gain ROI (return on investment) from your online marketing efforts, then this video is for you. As you can see, this one simple technique really revolutionized our internet marketing.
Babbling VC
JANUARY 22, 2010
This is becoming an almost annual post I guess. Venturebeat and a couple other blogs are commenting on NVCA numbers out of the US where it's clear venture investing plummeted in 2009. Is anyone surprised? This was clearly discussed as inevitable at the beginning of the year. Yes, the industry is contracting (as well as evolving). Am I surprised? No, there simply was too much money chasing too few deals.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JANUARY 19, 2010
Shout out to Black & Decker as they celebrate 100 years of innovation. What a marvelous achievement. This is something American (and European for that matter) manufacturers should take a good close look at. As we see jobs being shipped overseas and as we see the manufacturing base slowly ebbing away, Black & Decker is [.]. Tags: Entrepreneurial Innovation Asian Innovation Black & Decker celebration DeWalt entrepreneurs EU Global competition Gregg Fraley Harley-Davidson Kwiskset man
OnlyOnce
JANUARY 20, 2010
The Beginning of the DMA’s Next Chapter. As I wrote a few months back, I recently joined the DMA’s Board of Directors and its Executive Committee to try to help the association – one of the largest and highest profile groups representing marketers – advance its agenda in a few specific ways. At the time, I noted that my interests would be on consumer advocacy and engagement, execution around interactive marketing issues and the internet community, and transparency around the organ
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 20, 2010
TechWildcatters is a mentorship-driven microseed fund and startup accelerator that just launched in Dallas, Texas. TechWildcatters is now accepting applications for their first 12-week accelerator “bootcamp” and 20 startup teams will have the opportunity to pitch on March 11, 2010. The first program begins April 5, 2010. The selected startups will get up to $25,000 in seed funding, intensive top-notch mentorship, and the opportunity to pitch to angel investors, venture capitalists and corporate
Steve Blank
JANUARY 21, 2010
…I’ve been to the mountaintop and I’ve seen the Promised Land. And I might not get there with you… Martin Luther King. The startup founder who gets fired just as his/her company is growing into large company could be a cliché – if it wasn’t so true – and painful. Let’s take a look at why. Full disclosure: I’ve worn all the hats in this post.
Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook
JANUARY 22, 2010
Briefly noted, a quick from-the-field pop culture report. How many lives can a show biz cat have? I was shocked, and delighted, to see Mickey Dolenz featured on a poster in the London Underground. Apparently he has the part of Wilbur Turnblad in Hairspray. Dolenz is well on his way to becoming the Mickey Rooney of his generation, [.]. Tags: Pop Culture Trends, Futurism, and Research Circus Boy Garrison Keillor Gregg Fraley Hairspray Last Train to Clarksville Mickey Dolenz.
thebarefootvc
JANUARY 21, 2010
Last month I sat down with Fox Business News to provide advice to entrepreneurs looking for venture funding. There is visibly more interest in tech entrepreneurship in NYC, which is encouraging to see. This is a clip of the video. An accompanying written Q&A with several VCs discussing the current state of the VC market.
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 21, 2010
It’s time for the entire startup world to cease spelling “startup&# with a hyphen. I realize that most dictionaries have “start-up&# as the main entry. But if “vlog&# and “webisode&# can be added to the dictionary , I’m pretty sure the startup hyphen can be eliminated from those same reference books. In addition to just looking cleaner without the hyphen, think of all the keystrokes we’ll save over our lifetime.
Altgate
JANUARY 21, 2010
@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Some Practical Advice on Executive Compensation at Startups HBS Student Business Plan Contest Finalists → More “Open Source&# Legal Tools Posted on January 21, 2010 by fnazeeri Last year I wrote a post about WSGR’s new term sheet generator and how that was part of an overall trend to “open source&# the legal industry.
entrepreMusings
JANUARY 18, 2010
A short, but important, interruption to my blogging break for the benefit of the earthquake victims in Haiti. The Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Central Texas is coordinating a fund raising effort among technology entrepreneur’s to raise money for the victims in Haiti. Even if you aren’t a technology entrepreneur or don’t work for a technology company, you can donate!
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 19, 2010
Startup Weekend Dallas 2010 is scheduled for Friday April 16 to Sunday April 18th. Of course, that is the same weekend as Coachella. I grew up in the Coachella Valley and can therefore objectively tell you Startup Weekend is the better option. Tags: Startup Lawyer dallas startup weekend.
This is going to be BIG.
JANUARY 19, 2010
Back in July, I wrote a piece called “ Why Yelp (…and every single retail establishment) Should Support Foursquare ”. Whitney McNamara referred to as the “post that launched 1000 VCs”, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of data—when people show up to venues—and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues.
Steve Blank
JANUARY 18, 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 video and slides as well as the bibliography for sources and supplemental reading. ———— The Soviet Union’s detonation of an atomic weapon in 1949 and the start of the Korean War in 1950 fed cold war paranoia in the military and political leadership of the United States.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 18, 2010
I'm pleased to have a guest blog post by Kevin Oakes, CEO of my portfolio company i4cp (the Institute for Corporate Productivity) and a leading thinker in leadership and high performance. Pick a leader - any successful leader. Then search Amazon and see how many books and other publications come up on that person. Abraham Lincoln? 83,642. Gandhi?
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 19, 2010
A stock option grants you the right to purchase a certain number of shares of stock at a pre-established price. An incentive stock option (ISO) is a type of stock option that allows favorable tax treatment to the stock option holder. The main tax benefits of incentive stock options are that the option holder can: (1) delay his or her personal taxable event until the stock is actually sold by the holder (instead of at the exercise of the option), and. (2) receive long-term capital gains treatment
Growthink Blog
JANUARY 22, 2010
In this video, I reveal the single most powerful concept in Internet Marketing: the "Browser-Shopper-Buyer" Framewor k. If you're struggling to make internet marketing work for your business, it's probably because you don't understand this simple Framework. Without a doubt, the BIGGEST mistake "rookie" marketers make is thinking that your website visitors are ready to buy the first time they come to your website.
The Startup Lawyer
JANUARY 18, 2010
It’s no secret that a good founder team is an essential step for a successful startup venture. You hope that your co-founder has the mental toughness to stay strong through the bootstrapping process where short-term milestones typically go unrecognized and bank accounts dwindle. But what about your co-founder’s wife, husband, girlfriend or boyfriend?
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