Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 11, 2016
I especially like the newest personal flying car , introduced at the most recent Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. New technology solutions often raise the specter of new government regulations. There is never enough funding to deal with the development and rollout costs required for big innovations.
View from Seed
APRIL 21, 2015
It took us three months to sign up the first 100 customers when we launched (we now do that every 20 minutes) and when we hit 100 customers, we went to Las Vegas with the whole team to celebrate. And then we used the same list to find the first customers. Today we have over 2 million customers across the whole platform.
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Up and Running
AUGUST 28, 2014
Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks. In other words, the cost of a college education has gone up, but so too has its value.
Start Up Blog
APRIL 29, 2013
Sir Martin Sorrel , the founder of WPP (the worlds largest media organization), recently said he went to Tech Punta in Montevideo instead of the CES in Las Vegas. Web access is seen by the government as an ‘economic development investment’, not a political football. A bit like Silicon Valley. This might just change.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 8, 2014
Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. Angels & Recycled Capital.
Venture Chronicles
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
I’ve been reading about some of the troubles that the Las Vegas hospitality industry is going through (as well as getting a lot of promo email for $40 a night suites at Mandalay Bay) and it again reminds me that populist uproar is neither rational nor constructive. government. government.
crowdSPRING Blog
MARCH 15, 2010
In a few days we travel to Las Vegas for the MIX10 conference and I’ll share some of the goodies from that show next week. We’re spending a few days at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, so I thought that I could share notes from three of the sessions.
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