Startup Genome - cracking the code of innovation Visualizing Startup Hubs: The World's Top Startup Locations - SeedTable Blog (click here for a larger image) Because SeedTable compiles statistics on a city basis it doesn’t always reflect the importance of hubs which can be composed of multiple cities. This is especially important when it comes to ranking the leading startup locations around the world, so to solve this we’ve produced this infographic which reflects hubs and not just cities. These are the cities we’ve classified into hubs: Boston - Andover, Boston, Burlington, Cambridge, Lexington, Newton, Waltham, Watertown, Woburn Los Angeles - Los Angeles, Santa MonicaNew Delhi - Gurgaon, New DelhiNew York - Brooklyn, New YorkSan Diego - La Jolla, San DiegoSan Francisco (Bay Area) - Berkeley, Burlingame, Fremont, Menlo Park, Milpitas, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Pleasanton, Redwood City, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale Seattle - Bellevue, Kirkland, SeattleWashington - Bethseda, Washington We’ve also made the raw data for the infographic available which can be downloaded here
Etude : Facebook « The Perfect Startup » Facebook est une entreprise fascinante ! Mais comment expliquer un tel engouement ? Comment en est-elle arrivée là ? Garder une excellence technologique au service d’une experience utilisateur exceptionnelle.Développer une grande agilité dans tous les domaines et jusqu’au business model.Construire et fédérer un écosystème puissant.Faire face à la disruption mobile.Développer une vision à long terme cohérente. Une simple fonctionné a recentré la stratégie sur la dimension sociale. Appliqué aux pages de marques, le bouton « Like » a décuplé le potentiel du Graphe Social. Le Like est vite devenu une véritable économie.
Inventors' handbook Disclosure and confidentiality Know the important difference between protecting your idea against disclosure and protecting your idea against infringement. Proving the invention Prototypes are necessary. Building a team and seeking funding To convince others that your invention is a business opportunity with excellent investment potential you may need a team that demonstrates a range of skills. Finding and approaching companies Finding the right companies to approach, and approaching them the right way, is important if you want a licensing agreement with a company. Novelty and prior art At least one significant part of your invention's technology must be completely new. Assessing the risk ahead Ask yourself the vital question: "Is there enough evidence to justify taking my idea any further?" Protecting your idea At some point you must legally protect your intellectual property (IP). Business planning A business plan is essential for transforming an invention into a commercial product.
Lean Startup Early business development tool Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products that aims to shorten product development cycles and rapidly discover if a proposed business model is viable; this is achieved by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning. Lean startup emphasizes customer feedback over intuition and flexibility over planning. This methodology enables recovery from failures more often than traditional ways of product development. [1] Central to the lean startup methodology is the assumption that when startup companies invest their time into iteratively building products or services to meet the needs of early customers, the company can reduce market risks and sidestep the need for large amounts of initial project funding and expensive product launches and financial failures.[2][3] Overview[edit] Precursors[edit] Lean manufacturing[edit] Customer development[edit] Principles[edit]
Les coopératives d'activités et d'emploi Les coopératives d'activités et d'emploi Les coopératives d'activités et d'emploi (CAE) ont été créées en 1995. Elles s'adressent à des personnes désireuses de créer leur entreprise, qui cherchent à tester la viabilité de leur projet. Elles offrent à ces porteurs de projet, en principe des demandeurs d'emplois, un lieu d'accueil et un statut : elles vont plus loin que les pépinières et autres couveuses d'entreprises, en leur permettant d'être à la fois entrepreneur et salarié de la coopérative. Le porteur de projet sort ainsi de sa solitude. De même que la Scop traditionnelle réunit des salariés-associés autour du même projet, la CAE réunit des entrepreneurs-salariés dont les activités peuvent, ou non, avoir des liens entre elles. Après une phase de conception et de mise en place, les CAE connaissent un développement depuis 2002. Le parcours d'un entrepreneur -salarié L'accueil-diagnostic. Le test. Le contrat de travail. L'accompagnement et ses contreparties. La sortie de la coopérative.
Patents The Founder Institute: Helping Founders to Build Great Companies The Founder Institute encourages collaboration between entrepreneurs and other domain experts to build meaningful and enduring technology companies. In this effort, we have released the Founder Advisor Standard Template version 0.75 (“FAST”). FAST allows any mentor, any advisor or any domain expert to quickly engage with and assist a fast growing technology company at any stage using fair terms for preset equity compensation. Simply check the level of engagement, sign the agreement, and start the relationship. There is no longer the need for cumbersome negotiation, legal drafting and review. Engaging an Advisor Entrepreneurs should engage with advisors carefully. A classic approach for an entrepreneur to engage an advisor might follow the following outline. The FAST Agreement With just a signature and a checkbox on the FAST agreement, entrepreneurs and advisors can now agree in minutes on how to work together, on what to accomplish, and on the right amount of equity compensation. Download
[Infographie] 12 actions à mener pour passer d'une simple idée à la réalité d'une entreprise Le passage de l’idée au projet nécessite quelques étapes de validation qu’il est important d’avoir en tête. C’est ce qui est appelé dans cette infographie réalisée par SampleQuestionnaire, la phase d’incubation, au premier sens du terme. Les hypothèses germent, les cas sont analysés, les pistes sont à la fois validées, puis invalidées. Voici quelques solutions à explorer pour accélérer cette phase d’exploration. Croire en soi, avoir une démarche positive est déjà la première des actions à mener. Prendre des risques de manière calculée est un point fort de l’état d’esprit des entrepreneurs, qui réalisent parfois qu’une décision peut être “un mal pour un bien”. Comment garder la tête froide et faire en sorte que son idée prenne forme? Tagged Accélération startups, indicateurs startups, Roadmap startup, selection-de-la-semaine
Google How To Get Media Coverage For Your Startup: A Complete Guide The following is a guest post by Leo Widrich, co-founder of Buffer, a smarter way to post on Social Media. [Note: I'm an angel investor in Buffer and love what they're doing] The Complete Guide to Getting Press Coverage For Your Startup Whoa, this guide was long, long, long overdue. So from now on, just a link to this guide will hopefully be useful. Over the past 6-9 months, I am extremely thankful for the amazing stories lots of great writers from news and tech sites have written about Buffer. To put it into perspective: Mashable featured us 6 times, TechCrunch twice, over 10 articles in The Next Web, plenty of write-ups from ReadWriteWeb, GigaOm, LifeHacker, VentureBeat, Inc. It is up to you to judge how good or bad the above outcome is and there are others who have done better of course. Yet, I wanted to share my experience with you on what we have achieved with Buffer and spill all the knowledge I have for getting covered. Secondly, don't be overwhelmed with the info below. All set? Leo
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