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3 Ways Your Company Can Act Like a Start-Up - Management Tip of the Day - March 03, 2011 - Harvard Business Review
Leaders of established organizations often look back on their start-up days and long for some of the excitement, nimbleness, and speed their organizations once had.
Jason McCabe Calacanis hosts ‘This Week In Startups’ on the ThisWeekIn network and is the founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine focused on the top English-language search terms, including verticals such as travel, products, news, entertainment, sports, food, and health.
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This past week was a remarkable one in the technology business. At the start of the week, Steve Jobs passed the leadership of Apple to Tim Cook and at the end of the week, Eric Schmidt passed the leadership of Google to founder Larry Page. Apple and Google are two of the most important technology companies in the world and the leaders in the mobile business which is certainly the next frontier in tech.
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Elizabeth Edwards, author of Startup: The Complete Handbook for Launching a Company for Less , reveals some surprising truths about self-employment.
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Valuation and Option Pool « Doug Neeper's Blog
DFN: I’m about to begin valuing a startup, so personally, the article is very timely and talks about valuation in terms that even I can understand.Seed Stage Valuation Guide « Jordan Cooper's Blog: startups, venture capital, Hyperpublic
I find it strange that with all the VC and Angel blogs out there, nobody seems to explicitly talk about the single most interesting term in startup financing: Valuation. Look no further than Chris Dixon’s blog for elucidation on such nuanced terms as founder vesting, convertible notes with caps, etc…but where do you go to find out how much you should expect to give up at various stages in your company’s development. In the past week alone, I’ve regrettably passed on more than one deal because the valuation the founder was seeking was an order of magnitude off from what was appropriate, and frankly I am pissed.
Lessons Learned: What is Lean about the Lean Startup?
The first step in a lean transformation is learning to tell the difference between value-added activities and waste. That foundational idea, so clearly articulated in books like Lean Thinking, is what originally led me to start using the term lean startup. I admit that I haven't always done such a good job emphasizing this connection; after all, there's an awful lot to the lean startup theory, and I'm always struggling with how best to explain it fully.Waterfall model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The waterfall model is a sequential design process, often used in software development processes , in which progress is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall ) through the phases of Conception, Initiation, Analysis , Design , Construction, Testing , Production/Implementation and Maintenance .
" Lean startup " is a term coined and trade marked by Eric Ries . His method advocates the creation of rapid prototypes designed to test market assumptions, and uses customer feedback to evolve them much faster than via more traditional product development practices, such as the Waterfall model . It is not uncommon to see Lean Startups release new code to production multiple times a day, [ 1 ] often using a practice known as Continuous Deployment. [ 2 ]
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Today’s high-tech entrepreneurs have at their command more than just the ability to invent new technologies — they have mastered the discipline and the methodology required to harness those technologies in order to serve customers. Such a combination of new technology and new understanding is unlocking new opportunities.Start-Up 100: Why I ditched Europe for Silicon Valley - Telegraph
Part of the magic of having such a large number of good people all in one place is the effect that has on those at the bottom of the food chain.Startup Weekend , an organization dedicated to the worldwide education and proliferation of entrepreneurship, has made a name for itself over the last few years with its unique weekend-long events. Over 17,000 participants have attended one of the organization's 120+ global events, from which over 560 new startups have launched. Thanks to a grant announced today from the Kauffman Foundation , Startup Weekend to continue to grow and better educate entrepreneurs in more cities around the globe.
Startup Weekend Set for Rapid Growth with Kauffman Foundation Grant
Mark Suster is one of those unique venture capitalists in that he has experience as an entrepreneur prior to joining the VC world (or the "dark side" as he calls it). Twice, in fact. That's why he calls his blog "Both Sides of the Table," because he has literally sat at both sides of the negotiating table.
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