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Open Source Entrepreneurship
One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me . I assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. Free: Startup Tools If you’re building a startup, the Startup Tools tab on the top of this page has curated links to hundreds of startup resources.
Anthropology of Mid-Sized Startups
Email This Post Print This Post Guest post by Kevin Simler, who works at Palantir, observes the startup scene, and writes at Melting Asphalt , about… well, go see for yourself. In their natural habitats, social species organize into characteristic groups. Gazelles form herds, wolves form packs, and ants form colonies. Humans, in the same way, form tribes.Introduction to Growth Hacking for startups : SGE
Pintrest, Facebook, Zynga, Dropbox, AirBnb… What do they all have in common? They’ve all used growth hacking techniques to grow their user base from zero to millions (and sometimes hundreds of millions). Growth Hacking isn’t viral marketing (although viral marketing is part of it). Growth Hacking comes to solve a very common problem in consumer startups: getting to the first x thousand/million users quickly once the product has launched and the hype has passed. The term “Growth Hacking”, invented by Sean Ellis , and made popular by Andrew Chen , a Silicon valley marketer and entrepreneur, is a combination of two disciplines – marketing and coding:
Working Backwards
In the fine grained services approach that we use at Amazon, services do not only represent a software structure but also the organizational structure.
“Raising Capital for Startups” on Udemy Udemy recently closed a $1 million financing from a syndicate of angel investors. I couldn’t be prouder of the Udemy team. We’re thrilled to have the support of angels who invested in (or started) companies like YouTube, Yelp, LinkedIn, Twitter, Playdom and Zynga. For those of you unfamiliar with us, Udemy is a website that enables anyone to build their own online course.
s $1M Fundraising: Lessons Learned about Pitching Investors from a First-Time Entrepreneur at Udemy
Les critères d’investissement d’un Business Angel engagé
Cette semaine, j’ai décidé de vous parler de mon process de sélection de projets , en fait surtout d’équipes, dans lesquelles j’investis. Au début de mon expérience de business angel, comme dans le recrutement de collaborateurs (trices) chez Juste à temps d’ailleurs, je fonctionnais surtout à l’affectif.
Je rencontre pas mal d’entrepreneurs avec qui je dois passer quelques minutes à reprendre les explications « techniques » à la base pour ce qui concerne tout ce qui entoure une levée de fonds . Comme je le fais toujours avec plaisir et que je me dis qu’il doit y avoir pas mal de monde dans ce cas-là, voilà une idée de post toute trouvée, surtout qu’on rentre dans une période active pour les investissements de premier tour et que les seconds tours vont bon train actuellement (les VCs ont la main chaude, profitez-en !)
Petit point technique sur les levées de fonds
Last night I taught a class via Skillshare (disclosure: Founder Collective is an investor) about how to raise a seed round. After a long day I wasn’t particularly looking forward to it, but it turned out to be a lot of fun and I stayed well past the scheduled end time.
chris dixon's blog / Notes on raising seed financing
Financement de l'innovation
Par Laurent Samuel (chroniqueur exclusif) - Consultant secteur associatif Je reprends une nouvelle fois le dossier du couplage entre une association loi 1901 et un projet à vocation commerciale, notamment ceux qui ont trait aux NTIC. J'ai traité ici le dossier des sites et forum à forte fréquentation .
L'association loi 1901 pour "porter" la béta gratuite permanente
3 in Share 0 The fine folks at Focus.com let me do a Webinar on this topic several months ago, but I wanted to summarize what I consider to be ten fundamental B2B sales & marketing metrics here as well. You can get an on-demand recording of the full Webinar here , but below (with some qualifying thoughts & questions) are the ten metrics.
Blogging Innovation » 10 B2B Sales & Marketing Metrics Worth Tracking
Allez, ça fait bien un mois ou deux que je n’ai pas tapé sur l’un de mes clous préférés : les métriques, les chiffres, le reporting , et tout et tout.