Lunarr Is Going Dark . . .
Like Tom, I am also a big fan of the team at Lunarr and over the last year and a half have become good friends with Hideshi Hamaguchi, who is one of the most interesting and generous of heart people you will have the good fortune of meeting.
I’m a big fan of the [...]
Is a Recession the Perfect Time to Start a Business?
Received an email today pitching services for a “renowned business expert” who would like to be interviewed. The pitch was that a recession is the perfect time to start a business because: * First, everything costs less!
“Start up costs are much lower than 3 years ago,” explains business startup expert, Danielle Babb. “Things like retaining [...]
Building Feedly, An Altnerative Approach
There is something really important in this post on the Feedly blog about how they launched their company and approach to building out the product. Along with the succinct description of what it means to develop and launch a product using an agile process is the indictment of the stealth-and-hype approach startups have embraced in [...]
Why the TechCrunch Economy Will Falter
Reading yesterday that AppLoop has apparently shut down impressed upon me a fundamental flaw in the startup economy promoted by a wide swath of pundits and proponents, that starting is more important than sustaining.
Now, we’re hearing rumors that the startup is in trouble, and they appear to hold some truth. For one, the company’s website [...]
TechCrunch 50
I’m up at Techcrunch 50 today, along with a gaggle of other folks from the media, startup, and investor community. Lot’s of companies, but truth be told not a lot that I find that interesting.
I sat in on some of the sessions, which are a Demo-style “pitch then sharpshoot” format featuring a panel of know-it-all [...]
The Death of Stealth Mode
Stealth mode is pointless because everyone has figured out that it’s faux scarcity with a PR objective. Just go into alpha release and skip the whole stealth mode shtick.
If you’re starting a company and want to stay in “stealth mode”, make sure you understand the impact of your Form D filing and factor [...]
Brilliant Seed Engineers
Adriana sent me this post with the disclaimer that it’s long but well worth the read, and I concur. Basically the gist of it is that you are only as good as your ability to hire good, and your ability to hire good is a function of your ability to hire brilliant seed engineers. I’ve [...]
Dilbert on Experience
If you look at the great achievements in history, they are usually accomplished by younger people. Those people continue to acquire relevant experience throughout their careers but their successes do not continue at the same rate. For anything important, experience probably has a strong negative correlation with success. If that weren’t true, all [...]
TechStars
Seeing as how I am in Denver/Boulder with increasing frequency these days, I decided to get involved with a local organization supporting entrepreneurship. TechStars is a fantastic Boulder-based organization that takes in 10 promising teams and provides seed funding and more importantly mentorship as they move through the early stages of development through fundraising.
There [...]
Backing Stupid Ideas
As managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, Guy Kawasaki funded all the really smart ideas he could find. None hit it big.
Is there a rim shot and laugh track to go with that statement…
Kawasaki is right about a number of the points he makes through this article. A lot of companies [...]
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