Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. MORE
The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Reply Bill , on April 7, 2009 at 12:09 pm Said: Interesting how much influence the military has had on our technology industry. MORE
I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links. MORE
Reply Jesse Farmer , on April 7, 2009 at 8:53 am Said: Customers don’t ask for your transcript. Martin , on April 7, 2009 at 9:40 am Said: There’s a wide spectrum between A student and dropout. Midas Oracle.NET , on August 30, 2009 at 11:53 pm Said: [.] MORE
I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. MORE
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Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Calvin Chin , on April 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said: Great war stories, Steve. MORE
Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers. We Hired the CFO. Last week as a favor to a friend, I sat in on a board meeting of a fairly successful 3½ year-old startup. MORE
» Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates: FOWA/Miami (Feb 2009) so i'm just re-arranging deck chairs here, i know. With no further ado, my talk from the Future of Web Apps (Miami, Feb 2009) : Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA/Miami, Feb 2009) View more presentations from Dave McClure. Posted by: Carlos Garcia | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 07:19 PM The comments to this entry are closed. MORE
I'm beginning my final preparation for my presentation at eLearn 2009. As I did for my keynote at ASTD TechKnowledge in January, I'm using what I described in Twitter Conference Ideas. Particularly I'm using TweetLater to plan out my presentation and hopefully provide value to participants and people who are not attending but who might be interested in what I'm presenting. MORE
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Posted by Dave on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 06:12 PM in Conferences & Events , Geeks, Tech, Startups | Permalink Technorati Tags : dave mcclure , fowa , london , pirates , startup metrics Digg This | Save to del.icio.us MORE
I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much. MORE
The 2009 CompStudy website has lots of little gems like this one. MORE
It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day. Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. MORE
I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. MORE
Rafe's coverage of the Churchill Club Top Tech Trends is worth sharing. Jurvetson's observations about distributed search are very similar to some I've been investigating. For every explicit action people take on the web (e.g. creating a link that GOOG indexes), there are 10X+ implicit actions (e.g. MORE
Rafe's coverage of the Churchill Club Top Tech Trends is worth sharing. Jurvetson's observations about distributed search are very similar to some I've been investigating. For every explicit action people take on the web (e.g. creating a link that GOOG indexes), there are 10X+ implicit actions (e.g. MORE
Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ). MORE
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then. MORE
TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Startup Weekend Tokyo & GeeksOnaPlane Japan (Dec 2009) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed. MORE
Immersive Web Home About Social Gaming Summit 2009 Kudos to Charles Hudson for a splendid job running the Social Gaming Summit. This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm and is filed under 3D , gaming. link] 3 days ago RT @ mjones : New: [link] #newmyspace 3 days ago June 2009 M T W T F S S « May Aug » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Theme Contempt by Vault9. MORE
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Reply Jonathan Payne , on May 20, 2009 at 8:43 pm Said: fascinating. Reply Candy B , on May 18, 2009 at 8:58 am Said: Your THEORY is well founded! Reply Amy , on May 18, 2009 at 9:15 am Said: I think it’s a little muddy with cause vs effect. MORE
I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background. MORE
Main | GeeksOnaPlane @ Ignite Paris (Brady Forrest) » Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates: SeedCamp 2009 (Sept 2009, London) Same old shit , just a different day (+ 1-2 new slides, not much tho): Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act III. MORE
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100 & a Crapload of Revenue (May 2008) Successful Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money (Nov 08) Posted by Dave on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM in Geeks, Tech, Startups | Permalink Technorati Tags : facebook , google , myspace , platforms , social networks , tiecon , twitter Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Posted by: Taylor Norrish | Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:30 PM Slide #3: I'd add "social loop." MORE
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As I think back on 2009, I am struck by a few observations. Accordingly, the land of start-ups began 2009 with no sense of future direction and free from data points to help suggest a rosy tomorrow would dawn. While the world started 2009 in a daze, we were very lucky to have committed employees, patient investors, and customers that helped us maintain our confidence in a better tomorrow. MORE
So my big prediction for 2009 is that we will begin the year nervous about deflation, and end the year nervous about inflation returning. Among my holiday reading this year was Alan Greenspan's biography cum economic analysis, "The Age of Turbulence". MORE
Some Dilbert backup on why it's hard to Evaluate the Performance of Knowledge Workers MORE
Main | Geeks On A Wall » Thursday, June 11, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Beijing, June 2009) Here is current " Startup Metrics for Pirates " presentation which i'll be giving at Startonomics Beijing : Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Beijing, June 2009) View more OpenOffice presentations from Dave Mcclure. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. MORE
Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking. MORE
Simply Hired Social Networking & Social Media Venture Capital & Startup Finance « The 2009 TechFellow Awards: The Envelope, Please. Main | US Startup Investment Market Overview (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) » Monday, June 08, 2009 US Platforms & Social Networking (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) Here is presentation from the panel i'll be giving on US Platforms & Social Networking this afternoon at Startonomics Tokyo conference in Japan. MORE
Reply Bill Allred , on May 1, 2009 at 10:46 am Said: This is a really common pitfall. Reply Niall Smart , on May 2, 2009 at 12:20 am Said: Great story – your point about snazzy design vs. actual impact is still relevant in the context of spending money on outsourced web graphic design. MORE
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I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. I think the 2009 data will be very interesting as it will reflect the effects of the overall economy as well as provide global comparisons. MORE
2009 Related Topics SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 26, 2009
I'm beginning my final preparation for my presentation at eLearn 2009. As I did for my keynote at ASTD TechKnowledge in January, I'm using what I described in Twitter Conference Ideas. Particularly I'm using TweetLater to plan out my presentation and hopefully provide value to participants and people who are not attending but who might be interested in what I'm presenting.
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
Last month we Launched Los Angeles Tech and in the announcement we provide the Hot List for the first half of January 2009. Top for January 16, 2009 - January 31, 2009 Posts Are You Selling Online Yet? This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.
500 Hats
JUNE 6, 2009
Simply Hired Social Networking & Social Media Venture Capital & Startup Finance « DMC Metamorphosis :) | Main | US Platforms & Social Networking (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) » Saturday, June 06, 2009 The 2009 TechFellow Awards: The Envelope, Please.
500 Hats
SEPTEMBER 23, 2009
Main | GeeksOnaPlane @ Ignite Paris (Brady Forrest) » Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates: SeedCamp 2009 (Sept 2009, London) Same old shit , just a different day (+ 1-2 new slides, not much tho): Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act III.
Steve Poland
JANUARY 20, 2009
Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact 2009 Goals By Steve Poland • January 20, 2009 You always need goals or else how do you know where you’re trying to get to?
500 Hats
MAY 1, 2009
Posted by Dave on Friday, May 01, 2009 at 05:14 PM in Geeks, Tech, Startups | Permalink Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Posted by: Caroline Barlerin | Sunday, May 03, 2009 at 11:10 PM The comments to this entry are closed.
500 Hats
OCTOBER 20, 2009
Posted by Dave on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 06:12 PM in Conferences & Events , Geeks, Tech, Startups | Permalink Technorati Tags : dave mcclure , fowa , london , pirates , startup metrics Digg This | Save to del.icio.us
500 Hats
JUNE 11, 2009
Main | Geeks On A Wall » Thursday, June 11, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Beijing, June 2009) Here is current " Startup Metrics for Pirates " presentation which i'll be giving at Startonomics Beijing : Startup Metrics for Pirates (Startonomics Beijing, June 2009) View more OpenOffice presentations from Dave Mcclure. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure.
500 Hats
MAY 15, 2009
& a Crapload of Revenue (May 2008) Successful Platforms Have 3 Things: Features, Users, Money (Nov 08) Posted by Dave on Friday, May 15, 2009 at 10:21 AM in Geeks, Tech, Startups | Permalink Technorati Tags : facebook , google , myspace , platforms , social networks , tiecon , twitter Digg This | Save to del.icio.us Posted by: Taylor Norrish | Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:30 PM Slide #3: I'd add "social loop."
Will Price
DECEMBER 30, 2009
As I think back on 2009, I am struck by a few observations. Accordingly, the land of start-ups began 2009 with no sense of future direction and free from data points to help suggest a rosy tomorrow would dawn. While the world started 2009 in a daze, we were very lucky to have committed employees, patient investors, and customers that helped us maintain our confidence in a better tomorrow.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 8, 2009
Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs.
Steve Blank
MARCH 28, 2009
Getting B-52s through the Soviet Air Defense System Posted on March 29, 2009 by steveblank This is post II of how I came to write “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley “ 1974. Reply Calvin Chin , on April 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm Said: Great war stories, Steve.
Steve Blank
APRIL 6, 2009
The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Reply Bill , on April 7, 2009 at 12:09 pm Said: Interesting how much influence the military has had on our technology industry.
Altgate
APRIL 26, 2009
I’ve mentioned this survey several times before, but this time I bring news of the 2009 survey opening to participants. I think the 2009 data will be very interesting as it will reflect the effects of the overall economy as well as provide global comparisons.
500 Hats
JUNE 8, 2009
Simply Hired Social Networking & Social Media Venture Capital & Startup Finance « The 2009 TechFellow Awards: The Envelope, Please. Main | US Startup Investment Market Overview (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) » Monday, June 08, 2009 US Platforms & Social Networking (Startonomics Tokyo, June 2009) Here is presentation from the panel i'll be giving on US Platforms & Social Networking this afternoon at Startonomics Tokyo conference in Japan.
Steve Blank
APRIL 30, 2009
Reply Bill Allred , on May 1, 2009 at 10:46 am Said: This is a really common pitfall. Reply Niall Smart , on May 2, 2009 at 12:20 am Said: Great story – your point about snazzy design vs. actual impact is still relevant in the context of spending money on outsourced web graphic design.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 15, 2009
It was great to hear from a long, lost colleague the other day. Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development.
Steve Blank
APRIL 7, 2009
Reply Jesse Farmer , on April 7, 2009 at 8:53 am Said: Customers don’t ask for your transcript. Martin , on April 7, 2009 at 9:40 am Said: There’s a wide spectrum between A student and dropout. Midas Oracle.NET , on August 30, 2009 at 11:53 pm Said: [.]
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 21, 2009
Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers. We Hired the CFO. Last week as a favor to a friend, I sat in on a board meeting of a fairly successful 3½ year-old startup.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 9, 2009
I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations.
Immersive Web
JUNE 30, 2009
Immersive Web Home About Social Gaming Summit 2009 Kudos to Charles Hudson for a splendid job running the Social Gaming Summit. This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 4:02 pm and is filed under 3D , gaming. link] 3 days ago RT @ mjones : New: [link] #newmyspace 3 days ago June 2009 M T W T F S S « May Aug » 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Theme Contempt by Vault9.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2009
Great post by John Shiple. He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ).
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
I recently had a conversation with an pre-launch startup where they discussed how SEO was going to be really important for them. They went on to describe a fairly common type of site that has some original content, but not much.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. Tell me a bit about your background.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I did a presentation about the use of Social Media to a great group of people who mostly are different kinds of service professionals (attorneys, accountants, consultants, etc.). I promised that I would do a follow-up post with some thoughts out of the presentation and providing links.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 16, 2009
I'm a big fan of LinkedIn and think that there's incredible value in the site. And I'm happy that they now have the concept of Saved Profiles and that they provide the ability to organize your saved profiles.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 14, 2009
Cliff Allen is someone I've known for quite a few years and he's a go to person for me when I'm thinking about issues around marketing, sales, technology, startups and networking.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 5, 2009
Some Dilbert backup on why it's hard to Evaluate the Performance of Knowledge Workers
Altgate
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
The 2009 CompStudy website has lots of little gems like this one.
500 Hats
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
A Silicon Valley Success Story » Thursday, September 10, 2009 LAST CHANCE for GeeksOnaPlane DC/Europe 2009: Countdown in 7 days. GeeksOnaPlane DC/EU 2009 View more documents from Dave McClure. TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference LAST CHANCE for GeeksOnaPlane DC/Europe 2009: Countdown in 7 days. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure.
Steve Blank
MAY 18, 2009
Reply Jonathan Payne , on May 20, 2009 at 8:43 pm Said: fascinating. Reply Candy B , on May 18, 2009 at 8:58 am Said: Your THEORY is well founded! Reply Amy , on May 18, 2009 at 9:15 am Said: I think it’s a little muddy with cause vs effect.
500 Hats
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
» Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates: FOWA/Miami (Feb 2009) so i'm just re-arranging deck chairs here, i know. With no further ado, my talk from the Future of Web Apps (Miami, Feb 2009) : Startup Metrics for Pirates (FOWA/Miami, Feb 2009) View more presentations from Dave McClure. Posted by: Carlos Garcia | Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 07:19 PM The comments to this entry are closed.
Florida Venture Blog
MAY 21, 2009
Rafe's coverage of the Churchill Club Top Tech Trends is worth sharing. Jurvetson's observations about distributed search are very similar to some I've been investigating. For every explicit action people take on the web (e.g. creating a link that GOOG indexes), there are 10X+ implicit actions (e.g.
Florida Venture Blog
MAY 21, 2009
Rafe's coverage of the Churchill Club Top Tech Trends is worth sharing. Jurvetson's observations about distributed search are very similar to some I've been investigating. For every explicit action people take on the web (e.g. creating a link that GOOG indexes), there are 10X+ implicit actions (e.g.
Seeing Both Sides
JANUARY 2, 2009
So my big prediction for 2009 is that we will begin the year nervous about deflation, and end the year nervous about inflation returning. Among my holiday reading this year was Alan Greenspan's biography cum economic analysis, "The Age of Turbulence".
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