Raising capital – The 50 or so things you should read first
I’ve aggregated a bunch of blog posts related to pitching your business to venture capitalists. My apologies in advance for the lack of organization. Please respond with additional posts in the comments and I’ll add them to the post as appropriate. Enjoy! Babak Nivi (Venture Hacks) Pitching (Excellent outline with a bunch of must-reads. [...]
Continue reading...Is the problem you are solving really a problem?
Sunday, October 4, 2009
OK, I’m going to get on my soapbox for a minute. Apologies have been offered in advance… Came across this article today about California (via Mark Suster and Michael Schneider) and the lousy state (no pun intended) that we’re in: Will California become America’s first failed state? The article talks about people facing real problems. [...]
Continue reading...Bringing Entrepreneurial Education to the Masses
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I’m deeply passionate about entrepreneurship. And over the years I’ve been greatly inspired by stuff like Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders, Venture Voice, From Scratch and Mixergy. And I’ve been wowed by the innovation coming out of places like YCombinator, TechStars and BetaWorks. And I’ve been incredibly thankful for the wisdom I’ve gained from [...]
Continue reading...Content Publishers: I Have A Business Model For You
Friday, August 14, 2009
OK, this is definitely a theory but part of me thinks it’s well worth exploring…and I’ve heard precious little about this to date. So two experiences this week plus this Fred Wilson blog post got me thinking that content publishers are looking in the entirely wrong place for their business model. They are looking at [...]
Continue reading...Dream out loud. At high volume.
Monday, June 29, 2009
The only limits are the limits of our imagination. Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud. At high volume. That’s what we do for a living. -Bono before “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” from this amazing bootleg show in Dublin. Couldn’t find anything embeddable but this is fairly close (from [...]
Continue reading...Umair Haque on Authentic Value
Saturday, June 27, 2009
If I could have one wish today it would be that everyone would watch this (less than 4 minute) video and ask themselves an all-important question: “Am I creating authentic value?” In other words, is what I’m doing with my life (where I’m working, what I’m investing in, etc.) not just making me better [...]
Continue reading...FedEx’s Brown Bailout: How Big Companies *Shouldn’t* Use Social Media
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Social media gives companies a wonderful opportunity to drive awareness to issues, establish authentic communication channels with its customers and spread messages virally through the Web. However, it also gives companies an even bigger chance to look like fools when they use these tools incorrectly. Today, I see this video going around Facebook: What?!!! [...]
Continue reading...Why Amazon Vine is a Threat Worth Talking About
Friday, June 12, 2009
Have you heard about Amazon Vine? I hadn’t until tonight. And what I learned about it is, I think, really important to talk about for reasons I’ll get to in a second. First off, according to Amazon, here’s what Amazon Vine is: Amazon Vine™ is a program that enables a select group of [...]
Continue reading...eduFire SuperPass: Unlimited Education for Less Than a $1/Day
Thursday, June 11, 2009
For the last six months we’ve been working on something at eduFire that I’m very excited to be able to announce for the first time. It’s called eduFire SuperPass and it’s the best answer I can give (while being far from a complete one!) to the question: How can we change education? Education is mired [...]
Continue reading...Authentic Value Creation: Why Tech Entrepreneurship Rocks
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Umair’s recent talk at the BRITE conference (embedded below) got me thinking this morning on the subject of authentic value creation. I think it’s a fascinating subject. The notion of authentic value creation is creating products and services that make the lives of those who consume better. Pretty basic huh? But [...]
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
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