100 Startup Ideas ~ India Startups | StartupTimes.in | Business Startup Story. Domain Cleaning | Steve Poland (@popo) What Startup To Build? Editor’s Note: Guest contributor and early TechCrunch writer Steve Poland (@popo) is exploring a fund to join the “overcrowded” early stage investment market. His last contribution was “Will It End Very Badly?” Probably Not. If you’re asking which startup to build, not whether to build, you probably have several half-baked ideas and don’t know which one to devote yourself to.
Or you have no idea at all. Max Levchin and Peter Thiel would tell you innovation is dead and that you should go work on real, world-changing, notable problems. They say too many young companies are solving small problems and creating features. TechCrunch writer Rip Empson would ask you to not build a copycat app. Or programmer Chris Moyer would tell you, “If you are asking what startup to build, then maybe you are too focused on doing a startup. It’s easy to get trapped and excited by the startup world we read about through the looking-glass of TechCrunch. What are your problems? Image credit: Sean Rad; Instagram. Fred Wilson (financier)
Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is a New York City-based venture capitalist and blogger. Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures, a New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, Zynga, Kickstarter, and 10gen. Wilson has served as a judge for Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC BigApps competition in NYC.
Wilson publishes a popular[6] blog called AVC: musings of a VC in NYC. Wilson publishes one post per day, almost always on a topic related to venture capital entrepreneurship or the Internet.[7] Wilson is married to Joanne Wilson, a Venture Capitalist focused on startups founded by women, and author of the Gotham Gal blog.[8] Wilson has three children and lives in New York City.
One of his daughters attends Wesleyan University. Jump up ^ Lau, Debra (May 17, 2001). Red Herring (magazine) Red Herring is a media company that publishes an innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters and hosts events for technology leaders.[1] Red Herring is perhaps best known for its Red Herring Top 100 technology awards and the international conferences it hosts each year. The Red Herring Top 100 began in 1996 and highlights startup companies and private ventures in Asia, Europe and the Americas.[2] Red Herring began as a technology business magazine in 1993 and flourished during the dot com boom, with global distribution and bureaus in Bangalore, Beijing, and Paris. It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together. The magazine went into decline with the dot com crash, and ceased print publication in 2003. Red Herring began as a magazine, founded in 1993 by a former banker named Anthony Perkins.
The Internet operation grew steadily and peaked in 2000 when it acquired Stockmaster.com. 100 Startup Ideas ~ India Startups | StartupTimes.in | Business Startup Story. Starting a Business.