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Steve Blank
Teaching Entrepreneurship – By Getting Out of the Building
One of the classes I teach in the engineering school at Stanford is E145: the Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship, an introduction to building a scalable startup. While the class is open to everyone at the University, we want to teach science and engineering undergraduates how they can take a technical...
The Secret History of Silicon Valley Part 15: Agena – The Secret Space Truck, Ferret’s and Stanford
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. ———— By the early 1960’s Lockheed Missiles Division in Sunnyvale was quickly...
Perfection By Subtraction – The Minimum Feature Set
“By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist.” Book of Five Rings I was having coffee with a former student who was complained that my idea of building a first product release with a minimum feature set was a bad idea. (One of the principles of Customer...
Trading emails with a startup CEO building an iPhone app, I asked him why potential customers would buy his product. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. It looked like every competitive analysis I had done for 20 years, (ok maybe better.) And it made me sad. Looking at the...
Customer Development for Web Startups
Customer Development is a technique startups use to quickly iterate and test each part of their business model. How you execute Customer Development varies, depending on your type of business. In my book, “The Four Steps to the Epiphany” I use enterprise software as the business model example. Ash Maurya, the CEO of WiredReach,...
Startups that are searching for a business model need to keep score differently than large companies that are executing a known business model. Yet most entrepreneurs and their VC’s make startups use financial models and spreadsheets that actually hinder their success. Here’s why. Managing the Business When I ran my startups our venture investors...
Small Business Labs
The New Entrepreneur Presentation
I was forwarded a link to a really interesting presentation on small business trends called The New Entrepreneur. It is from Grasshopper, a company that provides virtual phone systems for small businesses. They worked with the market research firm Trends......
Outlook for Jobs, Small Business Hiring Improving
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. unemployment held steady at 9.7% in February. This was a positive surprise because most economists thought the east coast blizzards would cause the unemployment rate to increase. According to T.R. Price's chief......
Great Quote on How Chinese and Americans Respond to their Leaders
The quote comes from Hongmei Zhang, deputy general manager at the center for technology strategy and development at Chinese power supplier ENN Group. She was speaking at a MIT energy conference, explaining why nuclear power was more accepted in China......
The Shrinking Venture Capital Industry
The Wall Street Journal covers the hard times in the VC industry. Key quote on the number of VCs able to raise new funds: Last year, 125 venture funds in the U.S. collected $13.6 billion, down from 203 funds that......
Great Quote on Seniors Working Past Traditional Retirement Age
The quote comes from an article on outsourcing IT operations to rural U.S. locations instead of overseas. The quote on working in retirement comes from the head of the Fanin, Georgia Chamber of Commerce. The small town of Fanin has......
One of the most interesting trends we've tracking for last few years is emergence of barbell industrial structures. The barbell exists when an industry consists of a small number of giant corporations, a narrow middle of relatively few mid-sized companies,......
The Next Web
Foursquare Checks Out Of The iTunes App Store
Foursquare’s iPhone app has been withdrawn from iTunes app store. Foursquare, the mobile service which brings together social city-guides and location-based gaming is normally available for iPhone, Blackberry, PalmPre and Android devices. However, its iPhone app, originally launched in 2009, has disappeared from iTunes store, leaving many users unable to access...
Foursquare Confirms Restaurant Dashboard Alpha Testing
In a new article in trade magazine Nation’s Restaurant News, Foursquare’s Tristan Walker (at right, who is making business development waves with deals with Zagat, Bravo and others) reveals a few very interesting tidbits about how Foursquare is working to cater to restaurant owners (excuse the pun). Restaurant Analytics Dashboard Testing The...
The Next Web’s Weekly Recap: Real Time Web, iPad and the Startup Visa
Welcome to The Next Web’s Weekly Recap. If you love all things The Next Web make sure to grab your early bird tickets to The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam (April 27, 28 & 29). This week saw a couple of big announcements relating to the real time web including WordPress’...
iPhone video calling revealed? Don’t get excited.
A post on a blog called Funky Space Monkey this weekend has got Apple fanboys all hot under the collar. The post suggests that UK mobile network O2 has accidentally revealed the next iPhone’s video calling capability. Its evidence? The O2 iPhone Simplicity tariff, which lists a price for video calls. So,...
DoGood Replaces The Web’s “Evil” Ads with “Good” Ads
DoGood has recently released their DoGooder plugin for Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. DoGood’s main goal is to raise money for donations to charitable organizations and they are doing this with a simple plugin. The DoGooder plugin replaces generic ads on websites with “green” themed ads instead of those old generic...
Bing bans “sex” in the Middle East
Type the word “sex” in Bing from any Arabic-speaking country and what do you get? The following message: The Open Net Initiative (ONI) reported on Friday that Microsoft has gone all prudish on us now and is filtering all Arabic and English terms for sexually explicit content, so if you’re a...
VC Ready Law Blog
Price-based antidilution protection
Price-based antidilution protection reduces the dilutive effect on an investor of a later financing at a lower valuation (a “down-round” financing). Price-based antidilution protection of some sort is a characteristic of most preferred stock and operates by increasing the number of shares of common stock into which a share of...
Why founders should assign IP to their company
A problem we encounter with startling regularity is a team of founders where some or all of them have not assigned the relevant intellectual property they’ve developed to their company. This may not seem like a big deal when the value of unassigned IP is hard to determine, but it...
Introducing VC Ready’s Daily Tidbit
After a long winter’s nap, the VC Ready Blog is back! To kick off the new year, we’re introducing a daily Twitter/Facebook supplement to our blog: the VC Ready Law Group Daily Tidbit. Each week (Monday through Friday) the Daily Tidbit will offer a Twitter-sized (max. 140 characters) piece of...
How to determine the right equity structure for your startup
When you’re ready to incorporate, you’ll need to give some thought to the proper equity structure for your business. Because equity is a currency startups can trade for money or services, your company’s initial equity structure should take into account your plans for near-term growth. There are no hard-and-fast rules...
Employees v. Independent Contractors – What Startups Need to Know
Even if you’ve never run a business before, you can probably imagine that there are many more laws governing the relationship between a company and its employees than between a company and its independent contractors, so you might rightly conclude that it is generally less costly to hire independent contractors...
Five signs it’s time to get your business organized
All entrepreneurs face the question: “when should I form a company?” Transitioning from partners in an informal collaboration to co-owners of an actual business may seem like a big step, but it is a necessary one that every successful startup eventually must take. Forming a corporation or limited liability company...
Start Up Blog
When technology makes you obsolete
I once heard an interview with drummer Rob Hirst from the rock band Midnight Oil. It was in reference to one of their most critically acclaimed and best selling song, Power and the passion. Rob was asked about the infamous drum solo in the middle of the song, which not...
Face to face meeting Phone call Letter in the mail Personal email Blog entry Email newsletter Physical interactions are infinitely more valuable than digital ones. If we must communicate digitally, it should be the preamble to future physical, real human interaction. ...
The coolest thing about digital media is this: The footprints last forever. Which means that some small promotional activity and links will endure, and sometimes pull a Jesus and get a second coming. Just like we did with rentoid.com on our www.iwearyourshirt.com promo. We recently got featured in the Fox...
Can boring brands create word of mouth?
This is the sixth of my crowd sourced blog entry ideas as suggested by Ben Rowe. Ben wanted to get my thoughts on the following: “Can boring brands and products create word of mouth?” Discuss. In a word, no. But given the task is to discuss, I’d say the fact that...
We often read about the value of brand names: “The ikea brand alone is worth $12 billion – Interbrand” Not really. The value of a brand is the infrastructure and value chain which has been built behind it, resulting in the ultimate revenue streams. In truth the brand name is worth...
As entrepreneurs we can’t be afraid of boot leather as a strategy. It’s vital, even for web startups. But recently I’ve been out selling rentoid partnerships (clipboard under arm sales rep style) to the rental industry in order to develop strategic alliances. It’s not easy, but I’m learning more doing this...
Twitter / JohnChow
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JohnChow: @Brandon_N_C Maybe it takes time to take affect. Mashable used MaxCDN as well.
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JohnChow: Just accelerated my blog using http://www.MaxCDN.com They mirrored it across 100's of servers. Does it load faster for you?...
JohnChow: New Blog Post @JohnChow - Affiliate Marketing: Choosing The Best Model For You http://johnchow.com/13901...
JohnChow: 120,000 iPads sold on 1st day of pre-order http://ow.ly/1kw2F
JohnChow: 120,000 iPads sold on 1st day of pre-order http://ow.ly/1kw2F...
JohnChow: @zanderchance Club 977 is the best station on iTunes!
JohnChow: @zanderchance Club 977 is the best station on iTunes!...
The Freestyle Entrepreneur
Customer Service, Client Building & Follow-Up The Issue: Small-business owners–and anyone else who enjoys a good sandwich–need a place like “Shelly Deli.” This sandwich shop in a convenience store by the bay in Safety Harbor, Florida makes the best “Cubans” and hoagies in town. Any town! With friends coming for lunch Thursday,...
Marketing Revelation & Book Recommendation
THE MARKETING REVOLUTION IS HERE I’m a dinosaur, pushing 60 years of age. I grew up in an age when marketing meant bending, twisting, shouting, cajoling, sex-appealing, manipulating, and pleading to get people to BUY! BUY! BUY! It was a one-way message: from the seller to the would-be buyer. We talk. ...
A Conversation with Nicholas L. Gregory Responding to a 1979 Stanford Research Institute survey, 37,000 affluent individuals said they were frustrated with too many financial services companies with too many poorly trained high-pressure sales reps pushing too many prepackaged products. In 1982, a young Ohio financial advisor, Nicholas Gregory, read that survey...
Curious which are the worst airline pilots? (Korean.) Ever wonder why some musicians are wanna-bes and others are superstars? (Ten thousand hours.) Or why the majority of National Hockey League players are born in January or February? (Age cut-off dates when they were children.) Do you know why New York’s...
MONDAY BOOK REVIEW: E-MYTH REVISITED
This is one of those books, The E-Myth Revisited, that you almost love to hate. You hate it because the author, Michael E. Gerber, has a smarmy I’m-right-you’re-wrong attitude about him. (His examples tend to be stories about borderline stupid business owners who he sets straight.) You love him (well, maybe...
I’ll get to the title in a minute. First, I must start by saying that I love to hit the floor running hard every day in the quest for business. I also love to end the day exhausted, spent, without anything left to give. Family and friends have told me...
mokoyfman.com
PS22 Chorus, Lisztomania by Phoenix Posting a video today for...
PS22 Chorus, Lisztomania by Phoenix Posting a video today for cover Friday. If you haven’t seen the PS22 Chorus in action, you’re seriously missing out. Absolutely amazing stuff. Check them out here....
Broken Bells, Mongrel Heart This new album is simply excellent.
Broken Bells, Mongrel Heart This new album is simply excellent....
Cults, Go Outside This mysterious boy-girl duo is coming out of...
Cults, Go Outside This mysterious boy-girl duo is coming out of nowhere. I love this track....
David Bowie, I’ve Been Waiting For You (Neil Young cover)
David Bowie, I’ve Been Waiting For You (Neil Young cover)...
Vampire Weekend, Giving Up The Gun Revisiting. Probably my...
Vampire Weekend, Giving Up The Gun Revisiting. Probably my favorite track on the new album....
rudesmuse: EPMD » LET THE FUNK FLOW Old school.
rudesmuse: EPMD » LET THE FUNK FLOW Old school....
OnlyOnce
New Blog of Note in the Direct Marketing World
New Blog of Note in the Direct Marketing World Gene Raitt, Chairman of the DMA, has launched a new blog today called DM Unplugged. It's not an official DMA property. Gene won't be the only contributor -- over time, other DMA board members (including me) and thought leaders in the...
From Founder/Builder to Manager/Leader
From Founder/Builder to Manager/Leader After I spoke at the Startup2Startup event last month, one of the people who sat with me at dinner emailed me and asked: I was curious--how did you make the transition from CEO of a startup to manager of a medium-sized business? I'm great at just...
Parenting and Corporate Leadership
Parenting and Corporate Leadership Let me be clear up front: I do not think of my colleagues at Return Path as children, and I do not think of Casey, Wilson, and Elyse as employees. That said, after a couple weeks of good quality family time in January, I was struck...
Context is King A small post with a good point. I noticed in The Economist this week something that struck me. They posted a correction to a prior article. Publications do that all the time, but this particular correction was placed on a page in the same section of the...
Book Short: Not About Going With The...
Book Short: Not About Going With The... Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (book, Kindle), was a great read and a nice change from either strictly business books or my regular fiction/non-fiction reading. It's basically about the process of achieving happiness through control over one’s inner life,...
The Beginning of the DMA’s Next Chapter
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...
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
Horizontal Or Vertical Business Models: Which Is Right For You?
I recently received this unsolicited email from Craig Shinney (slightly edited to protect identities) – I just wanted to write to tell you that about one year ago, I started getting into Internet marketing and experimenting with all sorts of different methods of the various types of blogs and tools...
Do You Want A Copy Of My Definitive Guide To SEO For Bloggers?
It was early 2006. I had been blogging for over a year and felt I had achieved something. My blog had recently surpassed 1,000 RSS subscribers (what is RSS), making it at the time the most popular website I had ever built. The income was solid – up to $2,000 a...
Why You Need Your Own Product – Membership Site Mastermind Open
Rather than throw you head first into my very long sales page for the opening of Membership Site Mastermind, I’m going to show you just the video here on my blog, to help keep you on focus . This video was taken directly from my sales page, however it’s...
Joanna Martin Explains How She Did A $60K Launch With A Tiny Email List
Press play to begin streaming the audio or right click the text link and choose save as or save link. Download the MP3 [ 40 Minutes - 55 MB ] Dr Joanna Martin used to be a practicing medical doctor in Tasmania, then left that role to become an aspiring actor. Today...
How Stable Is Your Online Income
I’ve made some form of income from the Internet for the past ten years. That’s incredible for me to consider, as I look back over the years how for such a long time I felt very insecure about where my next paycheck was going to come from and whether there...
5 Tips On How To Outsource Your Blogging
Tyrone Shum has participated in both my Blog Mastermind and Membership Site Mastermind programs. He’s special because not only did he study the materials (which is rare enough!), he went on and has built himself a successful blog and last year launched a membership site too, so he’s a real...
D.I.Y. Startup news
Element – The Evolution of the Home Theater
Element is an innovative software for Media Center Personal Computers, featuring an unique across the room interface that is designed to be connected to your HDTV for a media and internet experience from the comforts of your couch. http://www.elementmypc.com/main/index.phpdocument.getElementById("post-10078-blankimage").onload();...
Since last updates on http://www.Flexoot.com this website got a lot of visitors from more than 35 countries. This service becoming popular with One Click Sign Up technology. Tip: useful service for all people and social networks.document.getElementById("post-9702-blankimage").onload();...
Spreaker beta (Live Radio Broadcasting for Everyone!)
Spreaker is a social service that will let anybody have his own web radio, and broadcast whatever he wants either LIVE or as a podcast. Its online deejay console allows real time mixing of voice, music and sound effects.document.getElementById("post-9484-blankimage").onload();...
Footymix – Share and love Football
Footymix is a place to share the latest football related content, news, images and videos socially with other football fans.document.getElementById("post-9148-blankimage").onload();...
New Co-op Social Network – Workterm
Workterm helps co-op students connect with friends and co-workers during work term. Join the new co-op social network Workterm to network with other co-op students and share your work term experiences.document.getElementById("post-7770-blankimage").onload();...
free timesheet for multiple users – Live Time Online
If you need a powerful and flexible timesheet application why not use a free timesheet from http://www.livetimeonline.comdocument.getElementById("post-7510-blankimage").onload();...
FairSoftware's Blog
A Memorable Co-Founders MeetUp
Yesterday was the third Co-Founders MeetUp of Silicon Valley, which set a new attendance record of 120 people. 12 startups pitched their idea with the goal to attract co-founders. The quality of the ideas was very high. Another thing I liked is that this MeetUp truly opens my mind: it’s...
HARO vs. PrManna: Out of Control Lawyers
If I am to believe this blog post, HelpAReporter, a web site that helps journalists connect with sources, has sent a threatening legal letter to a free competitor called PRManna: From the blog post summary: I stole his idea (bullshit, his service was a mailing list when I built PRManna, and there...
Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders
Do you wonder if your startup could benefit from having a co-founder? Some people are worried that adding a co-founder will slow them down, it will take too much time to discuss everything. They also think they can pretty much figure out everything on their own so why take the...
Opt-Out Policy Gone Wrong: The Google Way
I hate spam. Opt-out is the minimum that I expect from all decent sites. Opt-in would be nicer. Imagine my surprise when I received the following card in the mail: When I opted-out, I thought I was sending a clear message to the company that I didn’t want them to contact me...
Ask: I own a great domain name, how can I turn it into a business?
Question: I own a valuable dot-com domain, but I’m not a programmer. I think it could sell for a million dollars someday, with the proper traffic. What sould I do? A: The basic idea here is to build a site to take advantage of the great domain name. By going on...
Startup Advice Contradiction: “Iterate Quickly” or “Trust Your Guts”?
If you have been reading startup advice long enough, you surely noticed two trends repeated ad nauseum. Iterate Quickly Also known as “kill ideas fast”, this advice is saying that your idea is probably not worth the pixels it’s displayed on. Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution matters. You’d be better...
WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs
Happy Quote (on pricing and service)
Poor quality is remembered long after low prices are forgotten. (via @jasonfried)...
Clicky Web Analytics (GetClicky.com)
What is it? Clicky Web Analytics: A web analytics system (i.e. a web stats program). Who makes it? Roxr Software Ltd. Why is it the killerest? I remember when Google Analytics (GA) came on the scene, and for free, I......
Using Google Docs to make a survey
Did you know you can make a free, and rich survey or poll using Google Docs? It’s simple to set up, and as a bonus it drops all your results into a spreadsheet where you can slice/dice/analyze/chart/graph or whatever. To......
What is it? Balsamiq: It's a tool that anyone can use for making web page mockups. In the early stages of creating a web site, or specifically a web application, there's a period of time when you need to wireframe,......
Happy Quote – the starting point
“...now it's when the client says she's happy that I really start to work hard. That's the starting point.” (more) - Chase Jarvis, profession (inspiring!) photographer...
Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner
What is it? Stanford University's Entrepreneurship Corner: A collection of short, potent videos and podcasts by very well-known successful entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerburg, Larry Page and Michael Dell, as well as some less well-known, but still inspiring and successful entrepreneurs.......
Spartina
While in the past, technolology Series A financing was over $10 million, today, the starting point is often under $1 million. Legal documents used to create these companies need a new look, and Ted Wang, an attorney at Fenwick & West, and venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, is providing a new...
Meet Paul English and Customer Service
Here's an article that is quick to read but lasting in its impact. Paul English is a model of an entrepreneur to know. He walks his talk. His travel company, Kayak, is a great example. He believes the customer comes first, and is willing to answer the phone himself. Of...
We have longed encouraged Internet startup entrepreneurs to create a set of metrics right at the start. This way you can track the health and growth of your company. In this indepth article, David Skok gives a really clear set of examples as to what metrics are imperative if you...
For a tech startup, an easy source of revenue can often be using affiliate channels. It does take some work to find them, get them signed up, and pick the ones who reach your target audience. However, in general, results are positive. Here's an article that takes a look at...
Here's an interesting perspective on how to hire great employees for your startup: hire people who are already working. This article is worth reading just so you can see if you agree. Personally, it's not necessarily a perfect solution. In the article, Hoffman encourages lots of web recruiting. There is another...
Here's David Heineimeier Hansson
There are some great entrepreneurs out there, and David Hannson in definately one of them. The creator of Ruby on Rails, and a partner at 37 Signals, in this presentation at Stanford, he offers some wise advice to entrepreneurs who are looking at starting their own business. A great video...
Escape From Cubicle Nation
Announcing Escape from Cubicle Nation Workshop in a Box
I am thrilled to announce the launch of a new product that has been a long time in the making: Escape from Cubicle Nation Workshop in a Box. This product was created with video footage of my New York workshop that I delivered last summer at the Roger Smith Hotel to...
Kicking Make a Referral Week into Gear
I am an unabashed fan of John Jantsch from Duct Tape Marketing. He is not only a small business marketing genius, he is an exceptionally nice guy. So when he asked me to participate in the second annual Make a Referral Week movement over at his blog, I jumped at the...
Do more great work, even if you live in a cubicle
Do more great work with Michael Bungay Stanier from Pamela Slim on Vimeo. I am so glad that there are people like Michael Bungay Stanier working with people who choose to stay inside corporations by choice or convenience. Michael has been doing wonderful work at Box of Crayons for many years...
My kids are sleeping and I felt inspired to share a few things on my mind. This has been a very wonderful and busy first quarter. I have been creating and running at least four programs. Watching people learn, grow, get stuck, get unstuck and blast forward into new businesses has...
Business advice from a 94-year old barber
The LA Times ran a beautiful story this morning (covered in our local paper the Arizona Republic) about Elvie Lewis, a 94-year old barber in Los Angeles who is still cutting hair. The article says: His regulars travel from as far as Palmdale, Calif., to the three-chair shop on South Normandie Avenue...
How to start a business without destroying your relationship
One of the unspoken stressors for new entrepreneurs is convincing a partner or spouse that starting a business is a smart idea. The rigors of start-up life require a whole new set of communication skills to ensure that you keep your relationship strong while you build your business. In this 30 minute...
Entrepreneur Bootcamp: The Interactive Site for Small Business Owners
Ten Easy Tips For Writing Your Business Ezine
If you're a solo professional you probably write an ezine. Sending out an electronic newsletter ezine (e-zine) is one of the least expensive and best ways to create value and top of mind awareness in your customer's mind.One common issue I see in working with my own clients is sticking...
Why You Should Have an Email Autoresponder For Your Business by Rob Larson
There are many things to consider when starting a home based business. If you are on a limited budget and want to stick with just the necessities to get started then, by all means, follow along while I show you how focal an email autoresponder is and why you need...
Lengthy Business Plans Obsolete
QuikPitch™ (http://www.quikpitch.com), a first of its kind enterprise application for managing venture capital investment tasks, today announced release of its innovative tool. QuikPitch is a free online application to enable quick and easy collaboration between startup entrepreneurs seeking venture capital and investors looking for new ideas and investment opportunities.QuikPitch will...
Choosing the Best Domain Name For You and Your Online Business
Choosing the best domain name for you and your online business can be a crucial step in defining the success or failure of your hard work. You may build the best website in the world with great content and design but if the domain name is totally unrelated to your...
Time59 Web-Based Time and Billing Software Now on iPhone
Time59, the web-based time and billing application for independent professionals such as lawyers and consultants, now runs in the Mobile Safari web browser that comes pre-installed on the iPhone and iPod Touch.Users can track time and expenses, email invoices to clients, and manage accounts receivable from any internet-connected computer, iPhone...
Publishing Your eZine – the Pros
There are several advantages publishing your own eZine can offer to you. Thus if the pros appeal to you, then publishing your own paperless newsletter can be ideal for you.The most obvious reason publishing an eZine can be the most ideal business to you is that it is so easy...
silicontap.com - Silicon Valley High Tech News
Israeli startup Snaptu, a developer of mobile social networking applications, said today that it has raised a round of funding from Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Amount of the financing was not disclosed. Snaptu's software turns popular websites into mobile applications. The firm was formerly known as Moblica....
Brightkite Launches Group Texting App
Burlingame-based Brightkite, a developer of mobile social networking applications, said at SXSW today that it has launched a new Group Text service. The firm said that its free service allows users to send and receive messages from a group. The new service allows users to sent text to a list...
Mountain View-based MATRIXX Software, a developer of micro-transaction products for the telecom industry, said Thursday that it has raised $9M in a second round of funding. The round came from Greylock Partners and Tugboat Ventures. David Strohm of Greylock, and Dafina Toncheva from Tugboat join the board with the funding....
Advent Software Buys Norwegian Software Firm
San Francisco-based Advent Software, a developer of software for the financial industry, announced Thursday that it has acquired Goya AS, a Norwegian software provider. Advent said it would use the buy to offer Goya's Tradex software for fund managers and fund distributors. Tradex is used by fund resellers, financial advisors...
Radar Networks Acquired By Evri
San Francisco-based Radar Networks, a developer of semantic search software, has been acquired by Seattle startup Evri. Financial terms of the deal were not announced. Radar was venture backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Leapfrog Ventures, Velocity Interactive, and Vulcan Capital, and had raised around $18M in funding. Evri said the...
San Mateo-based Lucid Imagination, which develops commercial solutions around the Apche Lucene and Apache Solr search technology, announced today that it has raised $10M in a Series B funding round. The round came from Shasta Ventures, along with prior investors Granite Ventures and Walden International. Lucid Imagination is headed...
Business of Software Blog
Video of Geoffrey Moore at Business of Software 2009
One of the highlights of last year’s business of software conference was Geoffrey Moore’s talk about innovation. Everybody’s told me the same thing: this session changed the way they do business. For me it was the insight that you need......
How to get a job where you actually get to make mistakes and do something
Last week, Seth Godin wrote this in reply to Harvard Business School students seeking advice on how to find a job: “Go to a small company, work for the CEO, get a job where you actually get to make mistakes......
I’m about to start promoting Business of Software 2010. It’s in Boston, October 4th to 6th. The speakers are going to be fantastic. Here’s a sneak preview of the summary video from last year: (You can see a longer, higher......
What will happen when a software company downs tools for a week?
Three months ago, four Red Gaters volunteered to lock themselves into a converted barn on the Suffolk coast for a week, ate pizza, drank beer and coded. When Alex, Dom, Nagashree and Rob stumbled back into the office, they’d conceived,......
Ingeniously simple tools ... don't happen by chance
Have you ever wondered what pulling a pint of English ale can tell you about software interfaces? Or are you curious about Steve Jobs's magic ability to create news from a vacuum*? These are just two of the topics our......
I’m sitting in my doctor’s office. I’ve described my symptoms and he’s asked a few questions. For a few seconds, he seems puzzled. He starts typing at his computer. I shift my chair so I can see what he’s typing......
Did You Miss National Entrepreneurship Week?
Did you miss National Entrepreneurship Week? Don't feel bad. This post addresses three major things you can do to think entrepreneurially EVERY day....
Inspirational Young Entrepreneurs – Part #1
Want to read about young people today who are getting it right? Going for it? Pursuing their dreams? This four-part series serves it up to you in spades with stories that will blow your mind, warm your heart and - if all goes well - line the pockets of the...
Top Low Cost and Free Small Business Tools – Part #4 The Best of the Rest
This is the final post in our series of low cost and free business tools for small business. Today, we'll approach the area of cheap business resources just as you might: Googling! After each listing, we'll evaluate who makes it in this post and why. For educators, this...
Top Low Cost and Free Small Business Tools – Part #3 For the New Year
Today for the new year, your blog author weighs in with some tips for small business tools that are: 1. Free or low cost, 2. Help start off the new year right for you both personally, and in business, and 3. Proven ...
Top Low Cost and Free Small Business Tools for Start Ups – Part #2
At the 2009 World Business Forum in New York, global leaders in business stated the importance of running lean and mean during this down economy. With the expense of health care coverage, especially for small business, the need for access the tips in this series have never been more...
Free & Low Cost Tips for Start Up Businesses – Part #1 – From Robert Tuchman & Young Guns
Robert Tuchman is a young entrepreneur success story going from a one-bedroom apartment to a $70 million dollar company in the sports marketing industry. ...
Startupstudent.com
Hello faithful readers: First off I wanted to thank you the readers. You all have be a blast to learn from and really engage with. I know that over the past couple of months there has been a lacking of consist content on the site and for that I do apologize....
Wisdoms from a Student Entrepreneur
It’s really tough to be everything at one time. A good student, a good Student Body President, and a good entrepreneur. The honest truth is (and not enough people truly believe this) you can’t be great at everything. But another truth is, you ARE destined for greatness, but as a...
bootstrapping: a real life example
I have been ‘attempting’ to build a web application for a long time now … roughly 9 months. I have been bootstrapping most of the operation. I have either A. built what I can myself or B. outsourced it to someone who can do it better than I can. It...
Generation X: The Confused Generation
I’ve heard it in podcasts many times and read about it – but now I’m seeing it so often in my clients and contacts: Generation X is the Confused Generation. I’m Gen X, so I don’t mind busting on my own kind. Run down of the generations (from my Managing the...
You’re Invited to join eCornell’s Entrepreneur Online Video Contest
eCornell is celebrating the growth of the entrepreneurial community by challenging all entrepreneurs to share their unique take on meeting consumer needs. Now through November 30, eCornell is inviting all entrepreneurs who are developing (or have already developed) a new product or service to submit a quick video (5 minutes or less) that...
If you haven’t heard of kickstarter.com you need to check it out. It’s takes crowd sourcing to a totally new level. The site’s idea is to provide a forum for people to pitch their ideas and then have people be able to participate in the idea by backing that idea...