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No problem. How to Get Startup Ideas. November 2012 The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas.
It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself. The very best startup ideas tend to have three things in common: they're something the founders themselves want, that they themselves can build, and that few others realize are worth doing. Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook all began this way. Problems. Lebanon’s Web-based businesses hit fast track. BEIRUT: It’s often said that the Lebanese young person must pursue one of two paths: travel abroad in search of economic opportunity, or settle for a lackluster career punctuated by episodes of war and civil strife.
Not so much anymore, say a small but mighty few making inroads into the new economic frontier of Web-based business. Inc.com. For Entrepreneurs, Your Network Holds the Answer. I give the same answer to at least half of the business advice questions that I am asked.
"How should I get the word out about my new service? " "What's the best way to reach my target market? " "What conferences are worth attending? " "How much should I pay my staff? " "How do I find a good manufacturer ... sales rep ... or cost-effective printer? " "Ask your network," I reply again and again and again. Passion Meets Momentum. If you would like to contact us we would be very glad to be of assistance!
Please direct all enquiries to us via email using our contact form. HackFwd is operated by: HackFwd Capital GmbH & Co. KG Gänsemarkt 43 20354 Hamburg Germany Tel: +49 40 441 917 00 Fax: +49 40 209 325 429 Executive Board:Lars Hinrichs (CEO) Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? When speaking to hopeful entrepreneurs throughout the years, there was one question that I constantly heard: “Do you think I have the qualities necessary to be a successful entrepreneur?”
To answer that question, I have put together the questionnaire below to help young professionals find out whether they have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. A message to graduating MBAs - Fortune Finance. By Brad Feld, contributor.
Entrepreneurs: The End Is Near. Refinance. - Venture Capital Dispatch. The guide to getting a base in Silicon Valley for your European startup. In what is possibly the best presented and above all realistic exposition I’ve yet seen on what it’s like to extend a European startup into Silicon Valley, Andy McLoughlin, co-founder with Alastair Mitchell, of Huddle, socked it to the crowd at the annual Future of Web Apps London event this week.
“Fighting and Thriving in the Valley” is a step-by-step look at what it’s like to take a startup from outside the Valley – in this case Huddle’s roots in London – and create a footprint in the US via San Francisco. It was an excellent speech. How Great Entrepreneurs Think. What distinguishes great entrepreneurs?
Discussions of entrepreneurial psychology typically focus on creativity, tolerance for risk, and the desire for achievement—enviable traits that, unfortunately, are not very teachable. So Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, set out to determine how expert entrepreneurs think, with the goal of transferring that knowledge to aspiring founders.
While still a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, Sarasvathy—with the guidance of her thesis supervisor, the Nobel laureate Herbert Simon—embarked on an audacious project: to eavesdrop on the thinking of the country's most successful entrepreneurs as they grappled with business problems. She required that her subjects have at least 15 years of entrepreneurial experience, have started multiple companies—both successes and failures—and have taken at least one company public.
Mobilité, technologie et innovation dans le coeur de Paris. The Enemy Waging War Against Your Ideas. Cofounder network. The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. My Life As A CEO (And VC): Chief Psychologist. This is a guest post by Mark Suster, a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC.
He started his first company in 1999 and was headquartered in London, leaving in 2005 and selling to a publicly traded French services company. He founded his second company in Palo Alto in 2005 and sold this company to Salesforce.com, becoming VP of Product Management. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner focusing on early-stage technology companies. Both Sides of the Table 2x Entrepreneur turned VC. Merger Mania: Corp Dev Execs Talk For An Hour About Who They’d Buy And Why. 10 Mistakes That Start-Up Entrepreneurs Make. Vivek Wadhwa. Chop-Shop Workers and Bootstrappers: Chile Really Wants You. Silicon Valley’s vitality depends on a constant influx of bright people who challenge its inhabitants to work harder and think smarter. And, as I noted in my last post, America’s economy depends on startups to create jobs and innovation. Skilled immigrants have provided both.
So, given the miserable state of the economy, we should be laying out the welcome mat for the world’s best and brightest. Yet we’re doing the exact opposite. Meanwhile other countries have figured out the secret of the Valley’s success and are laying out their red carpets and welcome mats, not only for the foreign skilled workers we’re turning away but also for our techies. Fifty-two percent of Silicon Valley’s startups from 1995 to 2005 were founded by foreign-born workers. Top Tech Acquisitions Of 2009. OSEO - Soutient l'innovation et la croissance des PME.
Buxfer’s Founders Both Work For Facebook. Who Works For Buxfer? Buxfer is a social payments service that launched in 2007 as part of that class of new Y Combinator companies. The site is still live and working, but a user, Sean Leather, emailed us to say it’s a bit of a ghost town. The blog has been taken down and was last updated in 2009. The last tweet was on October 9, 2009, six days after their first tweet. Strategy and Performance. Welcome to The Influence Project. New York Isn’t Silicon Valley, and That’s Why They Like It - NYT. Hot or Not? Technology Entrepreneurship in New York City.
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Product. Stupid Questions VCs Ask. Raising money is never fun for entrepreneurs. It takes a lot of time and distracts them from actually building their business. But perhaps worst of all, they have to answer all the same stupid questions over and over again with every pitch they make.