When I was in my 20’s, I was taught the relationship between marketing and sales over a bonfire. Read More
Bonfire of the Vanities
Business basics Business to Consumer Character Competition Diversity Entertainment and Digital Media Entrepreneurship Failures/challenges from entrepreneurs Internet Social Media Internet Video Internet Web 2.0 Launching a business Leadership Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business Origin of idea Perseverance Software as a Service Success factors Survival tips Team building Vision
Entrepreneur tips: Focus on changing the world
Jostein Svendsen is a successful serial entrepreneur from Europe and the founder of six companies that range in Read More
Business to Business Education Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Origin of idea Venture capital
How scientists and engineers got it right …
Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs are one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. Read More
The press is having a field day on Airbnb’s behalf these days, given the pillaging of one of Read More
Business basics Business models/plans Business to Business Education Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Venture capital
Eureka!
Silicon Valley was born in an era of applied experimentation driven by scientists and engineers. It wasn’t pure research, Read More
Angel investing Business basics Business to Consumer Entrepreneurship Financial and Legal Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Internet Social Media Internet Web 2.0 Lessons and advice Venture capital
Fundraising: from 25 meetings to single term sheet
Maybe it’s the typical, maybe it’s not the typical, or maybe there is no typical, but here it Read More
Angel investing Financial and Legal Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Venture capital
15 minutes of fame in 2011
The latest craze in prices of private companies suggest a small group of investors can and are manipulating Read More
Business to Business Character Entrepreneurship Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Perseverance Venture capital
The $10 million photo and other VC stories
While on vacation I had a phone interview with Kevin Ohannessian of Fast Company who wanted a few “funding stories.” Read More
Kevin O’Connor founded DoubleClck in the mid-90s. The advertising company eventually went public in 1998 and was sold Read More
Business basics Business to Business Character Entrepreneurship Failures/challenges from entrepreneurs Internet Social Media Internet Web 2.0 Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business Perseverance Software Software as a Service Success factors Survival tips Team building Vision
Dave Kresse: “You never have a dull day”
Dave Kresse, CEO of Mu Dynamics, a leader in testing and validating application-aware networks, believes that part of Read More
Business models/plans Entertainment and Digital Media from entrepreneurs Internet Video Lessons and advice
Is content still king? The Netflix success story
Is content king? My friend Jonathan Knee of Evercore Partners wrote an interesting post on the Atlantic’s website Read More
Business basics Customer demand Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Internet Social Media Lessons and advice Making decisions Marketing Marketing/Advertising Social media Social media Survival tips User experience
Clara Shih’s lessons learned: it’s about the people
Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Corporation and author of “The Facebook Era,” has worked with virtually all of Read More
Up to this point in the evolution of Silicon Valley investment, legions of hopeful young entrepreneurs emerged from Read More
Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs How to build a product Lean startup Lessons and advice Minimum viable product
Open innovation in DC
Something interesting is happening in Washington, DC right now. It’s not the usual partisan fights about the budget Read More
It’s often said that an entrepreneur’s first idea isn’t necessarily what he ends up building. Mike Lazerow, CEO Read More