Venture Capital/Startups
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The State of Venture Capital and the Internet
Early today I gave a keynote at the VCJ Venture Alpha conference here in San Francisco. I was asked to speak about the topic of “what is going on in the venture capital world and what is the next big thing after social networking?” Next week I promised to follow up on PE Hub , one of the main journals VCs read about our industry, with a detail description of some specifics that are happening.Roger Ehrenberg: "Big or small, this book focuses the entrepreneur/manager on respecting employees, focusing on process, and insisting on the collection and analysis of data.
21 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read
These Are The Lies You'll Tell While Trying To Make Your Startup Successful
(Even the site's Google description includes this lie: "We're Stry (STOH-ree), a band of reporters who travel America in pursuit of storytelling. A news organization that's not easily distracted. We're topical, not typical." )
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Eric Ries is a consultant and the author of The Lean Startup , which he will be launching at Disrupt SF on Tuesday.
Are You Building The Right Product? | TechCrunch
Are You a Media Company or a Technology Company? - Ben Elowitz - Voices - AllThingsD
First, publishers need cutting-edge technology to hook an audience through today’s digital media channels of the Web, mobile, social, and search.
Why Governments Don’t Get Startups–Or, Why There’s Only One Silicon Valley | Xconomy
Not understanding and agreeing what “entrepreneur” and “startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach , and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions.
What Kills Startups? Blackbox Releases Report/App To Help Founders Avoid The Deadpool | TechCrunch
It’s not easy being green — or an entrepreneur.
When being an “expert” is harmful
In a recent Capital Factory all-hands discussion, one of the founders started a question with a well-worn preamble: “I talked to a bunch of the mentors and they all told me the same thing about pricing, but I’m telling you, they’re wrong.
Avoid Monoculture. Travel. Read Widely. Let Experience be Your Compass.
I sometimes feel that the Silicon Valley culture and we as technologists more broadly can breed monoculture in our approach to entrepreneurship, problem solving, market analysis and technology solutions.
The following is the result of a collaboration between Ty Danco and Dharmesh Shah.
Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels
Stock Market Drops. VCs Hold Partner Meetings. What Happens Next? | TechCrunch
This is a guest post by Mark Suster , a 2x entrepreneur turned VC with GRP Partners where he focuses on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Suster on his startup blog and on Twitter at @msuster.Interactive Map: The United States of Venture Capital - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ
While start-ups in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York receive the bulk of venture capital, and the most media attention, the money is actually spread around the country further than you might think. Using data from Dow Jones VentureSource and software from Tableau , we dumped onto a U.S. map the nearly 1,500 venture-capital funding deals — worth more than $14 billion — that took place in the first six months of the year.This guest post is by David Cowan .