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A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 25, 2012 What Has Changed As I read this post in the WSJ about the changing nature of VC funding of consumer web companies , I thought that we may be looking at the symptoms and not the disease. As the WSJ notes, VC funding of consumer web and mobile companies is down 42% in this first nine months of 2012 (vs the first nine months of 2011). lot, actually. | 500 HATS JULY 7, 2012 late bloomer, not a loser. (I hope) most of the time I think of myself as a failure. when I’m optimistic, I think maybe I’m just a late bloomer. know a lot of folks won’t understand this perspective, but when I was growing up I was always the smartest kid around. it was expected that I would do great things, by my mom, by my teachers, and most importantly, by me. | STEVE BLANK NOVEMBER 27, 2012 Open Source Entrepreneurship One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. Free: Startup Tools. customer development. | GRASSHOPPER HERDER JUNE 19, 2012 Business Model Canvas for User Experience The Business Model Canvas is the tool of choice for a business dashboard. It very much appeals to the business guy in me. It irks the UX part of my brain. Business Model User Experience business model business model canvas business plans user experience | | | | | | | |
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BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2012  Entrepreneurshit. The Blog Post on What It’s Really Like.
It’s 4.50am. Sunday morning. And I couldn’t sleep. have much on my mind since I just returned from a week on the road. cities. Late night Mexican food. Beers. Airports. Delays. left on a Sunday. had to miss a full day with my family, camping in the mountains. returned home Friday night at 10pm – too late to see my kids. Go figure. MORE >> -
SOCAL CTO | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012  CTO Salary and Equity Trends 2009-2011
Todd Gitlin of Safire Partners - a go to resource here in LA for recruiting C-level positions at startups - was nice enough to compile some data again this year (see last year's Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data ). Even better, my good friend and data visualization guru Steve Wexler of Data Revelations was able to create visualizations of the data. MORE >> -
GABRIEL WEINBERG | SATURDAY, JULY 14, 2012 Traction mistakes
Most startups don't fail at building a product. They fail at acquiring customers. The biggest mistakes I see over and over again when startups try to get traction are as follows (in order of importance). They don't pursue traction in parallel with product development. The benefits of parallel customer acquisition cannot be understated. First. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2012 The Role of Product Managers
I came across an interesting discussion on Branch about the role and future of product managers. I’m not a member there so I couldn’t respond directly, but figured I’d put my thoughts here instead. Yesterday the discussion only had a few comments on it. In that way, Product Managers are very similar to CEOs. Crappy developers. MORE >> -
VINICIUS VACANTI | MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012  How We Fooled Ourselves into Delaying Our Startup’s Launch
I remember reading the first few pages of Steve Blank’s book, Four Steps to Epiphany , and thinking two things: This is not exactly a page-turner. This is a really smart way of thinking about startups. Soon after, I started attending the Lean Startup meetup in New York and reading Eric Reis’s writings. was believer. That’s it. MORE >>
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- Guidelines For Interviewing At A Startup FELD THOUGHTS | FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012
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- A Software Entrepreneur On The Madness Of Software Patents and Trolls FELD THOUGHTS | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2012
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- Screw the Black Swans: Ichiro is our role model, not Barry Bonds. 500 HATS | TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
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- When Should A Company Be Formed Around an Idea? ASK THE VC | TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 2012
- In Defense Of Free A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY | SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2012
- The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company A SMART BEAR: STARTUPS AND MARKETING FOR GEEKS | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2012
- How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup STEVE BLANK | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012
- The Future of Startup Accelerators INSTIGATOR BLOG | MONDAY, MAY 28, 2012
- The Scarcest Resource at Startups is Management Bandwidth BOTH SIDES OF THE TABLE | SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012
- Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail WWW.CSCYPHERS.COM | THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
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