2 month ago
Linkorama : How I lost $20,000,000 in 18 months! - I learned a lot, made a lot of mistakes and ultimately became a better businessman and hopefully a better person as a result.
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3 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund: "A web-based Excel/database hybrid." Please make it versioned and multi-user
Linkorama : Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - a combination of relentless predator upon the obsolete and benevolent solver of the world's problems. As ways of making money go, that's pretty good. Startups are often ruthless competitors, but they're competing in a game won by making what people want.
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3 month ago
veen : Information Arbitrage: Monitor110: A Post Mortem - " I worked with a terrific group of young, exceptionally bright people who believed in the vision. Ultimately, we failed. But why did we fail, and what could we have done differently? "
Linkorama : Monitor110: A Post Mortem - While we certainly made more than seven mistakes during the nearly four-year life of Monitor110, I think these top the list.
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3 month ago
Linkorama : Diary of a Failed Startup - I'm going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit's Law: "Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization".
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4 month ago
Linkorama : Jason Shellen Returns With Plinky - One thing I do know: Shellen is a smart guy and having known him for a long time, I trust that he has something interesting up his sleeve.
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4 month ago
Linkorama : The liberating effect of failure - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld knows failure. A professor at the Yale School of Management and founder of the non-profit Chief Executive Leadership Institute, Sonnenfeld has risen to leadership-guru status by becoming the expert on how CEOs stumble and bounce back.
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Why Startups Fail - An entrepreneur recently asked me why startups fail. Startups fail because they run out of money.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism - I work with young startup founders in their twenties. They're geniuses, and play by their own rules. Oh... you haven't founded a company? You suck.
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7 month ago
Linkorama : A Couple of My Rules for Startups - Blog Maverick - Coffee is for closers -- Mark Cuban
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7 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) - How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips): jason has some good stuff here
Linkorama : How to save money running a startup - tip #3: # Buy everyone lunch four days a week and establish a no-meetings policy.
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Linkorama : Business Applications of Social Networking - I'm keynoting this event by the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives
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Linkorama : Thoughts On Choosing Board Members - damn good ones
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8 month ago
Linkorama : What to understand about new products and startups - What is the humble approach to product design? Pay attention. Notice which things are working and which aren't.
veen : Paul Buchheit: The most important thing to understand about new products and startups - Be humble. Pay attention.
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Linkorama : StartupLegalandFinanceBootcamp - StartupLegalandFinanceBootcamp is a limited seating (40 people only, we have a small space sorry) 1 day BarCamp for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who want to learn the basics of legal and financial details of starting a new company. It also has a very lon
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Linkorama : How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million - Good Angel networking story
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9 month ago
WillPate : Canada Needs to Realize The Technology Business is a Race | StartupNorth
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9 month ago
Linkorama : 36 Startup Tips - From Software Engineering to PR and More!
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Will it fly? - I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.
Andy Baio : Ev's guide to evaluating new product ideas - for me, "personally compelling" is the only one that matters, since I can't build something I won't use myself
WillPate : Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Convoq and Zingdom - Five Years - The company formerly known as Convoq, and later as Zingdom Communications, closed its doors Friday, November 30th.
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Web Startups Are A Commodity - VCs are a commodity too
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12 month ago
Linkorama : Financial Models for Underachievers - Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup
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13 month ago
Linkorama : How to have a happy CTO & CEO marriage - VC Brad Feld touches on this issue in a pair of posts today (The Constipation of Scale and Lighten Up / Tighten Up). As he correctly points out the relationship frequently hits the skids when faced with the inevitable drama of: scale vs. features.
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Jeremy Zawodny : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I: James lays out the rationale behind some of the changes at HOTorNOT
Linkorama : Reinventing HOTorNOT, Part I - Go read all three parts
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Linkorama : The truth about venture capitalists, Part 1 - Basics plus the basics of why they say no
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