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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 [...]

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Born Rich
What Exactly is an Intrapreneur?
Predicting Start-Up Success
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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 [...]

18Oct

Rollercoasters

Posted by Jeff as Entrepreneurship

It’s really kind of metaphoric to look out my office window everyday and see a roller-coaster.

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 [...]

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Guards Go Robotic in a South Korean Prison
Update on Sonata Software
UFile Tax Software Giveaway
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28Aug

Temporary Cults

Posted by Jeff as Entrepreneurship

Silicon Valley’s own brand of Stockholm Syndrome. SiliconBeat: Roundup — collective delusion &#38: “Any time you isolate people, bind them together and work them like dogs, it’s very powerful. You can get an enormous amount done when you create a place of such total focus and collective delusion.”

I’d love to comment on this in detail, but I am feeling a little brain dead this morning so all I’ll say is that I think Peter has hit on something meaningful with his post about business models. Having said that, it has been my observation that when most people ask the “what is your [...]

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OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING://STM meets Web 2.0
KEYNOTE://Innovation in voice
Disruption, Web 2.0 Style
Microfinance - Kiva
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I spent the last couple of days at the Always On conference at Stanford, as always this event combines a solid invite list with one of the best produced events in the industry. I was sitting with Jeff Clavier yesterday and we were both commenting that this is one event where you can literally just [...]

05Jul

Demo Days

Posted by Jeff as Entrepreneurship

David makes a really good point about the value of the demo. I love demos as well, mostly because I have serious ADD and I’m a visual person so watching a demo tells me far more about the potential and vision of a concept than the spoken word would. David is also correct that a [...]

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Yahoo Demos New Ad Platform
Forex Demo Account: Are Demos A Scam?
Back-Slapping Sellouts
Create quality iPad 2 product demos with Apple TV and EyeTV
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