Open the Spigit
"spigit is a platform that provides professionals the ability to showcase new ideas and innovations and in the process build their professional network. Companies and Entrepreneurs can obtain feedback-contributions-ratings from employees, partners and customers. Through our proprietary simulation they can build and refine an idea, find the right resources to contribute, [...]
Founder Blues
I didn’t need to be a genius to see t where things were headed. This week my “partners†canned me. The official reason is “termination without cause,†which is important only because it ensures that I will receive a substantial number of shares (and small amount of cash) in the company, [...]
Cambrian House – Crowdsourcing Gets Real
Up until now a lot of the talk about wisdom of crowds has been theoretical in nature, lot’s of sites like Digg claim the title but in reality a very small percentage of the user base ends up steering the market. Cambrian House is a company that aims to put crowdsourcing to work, literally, but [...]
Top 10 VC Lies
The post is here:
- We’re all on the same side here.
- A lower Series A valuation is good for you too.
- We’re not funding XXXX companies anymore.
- I liked it. Really. But we just don’t have the bandwidth right now.
- We don’t do deals we can’t drive to.
- Come back when you have a lead [...]
Bedouinism
Dan Fost writes a good piece about how entreprenuers are using shared office spaces and the local Starbucks to boot strap their businesses.
Malik, for instance, swears by his Starbucks. (He doesn’t want to say where it is, for fear that publicists from the companies he covers will stake him out there and ruin the experience.) [...]
Best and Worst Decisions
Mark Fletcher’s Best and Worst Decisions series is really (really) good.
The State of Small Business in the U.S.
Overall, SMB is quite robust according to a group that studies this on behalf of the Federal government. I was interested in this because I wanted to nail down market sizing for SMB which is all over the map. I’ve quoted 90 million as the total number of small businesses in the U.S., a number [...]
Most wikis only go to 10, mine goes to 11
I read this puff piece on a Portland company (via techmeme) that is hosting a wiki about other websites. Yeah, you read that right… the business is a wiki that has information about websites. The only reason I’m bothering to write about this is to point out how press release journalism does no favors for [...]
Rollercoasters
It’s really kind of metaphoric to look out my office window everyday and see a roller-coaster.
Surviving In the Software Economy
Over the last 10 years there is just one hardcopy article that I have guarded and taken with me in every role I have had. The article in question is from the March/April 1996 issue of Upside magazine (remember them?) titled “Surviving in the Software Economy” by Ted Lewis.
Surviving in the Software Economy is a [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. These are my thoughts on technology, innovation, management, public policy and pretty much anything else that I find interesting.
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