Founder Story: Ghislain Kaiser, Docea Power
This interview with Ghislain Kaiser originally ran Nov-4-2010 as “Docea Power Successfully Bootstraps As a New EDA Player
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Founder Story: Paul van Besouw, Oasys Design Systems
An interview with Paul van Besouw, the founder and CEO of Oasys Design System, explores lessons learned from his entrepreneurial efforts at Ambit and Oasys.
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Slides from “Working For Equity” Panel at SVCC 2011
Here are the slides from today’s “Working for Equity” panel at Silicon Valley Code Camp. It was a standing room only crowd of over 70 that made for a very interactive session with the panel.
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B.V. Jagadeesh on “Startup Leadership Lessons Learned”
Summary of a very insightful talk on leadership lessons learned by Mr. B.V. Jagadeesh entitled “Lessons Learned Starting, Leading, and Succeeding at Multiple Startups.”
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Isaac Garcia on “Bootstrapping Central Desktop” at Feb-11 BB in Milpitas
Isaac Garcia, co-founder and CEO of Central Desktop, will share “Lessons Learned Bootstrapping Central Desktop” at the Milpitas Bootstrappers Breakfast® on February 11, 2011 at 7:30am. Central Desktop delivers a SaaS collaboration platform that helps businesses manage projects and documents in the cloud with colleagues, customers and partners. Isaac Garcia (@isaacgarcia) oversees business strategy and
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Keep on Walking
My brother told me about “The Man Who Walked Around the World,” a 2009 long form commercial for Johnnie Walker that was part of their Keep on Walking campaign. It stars Robert Carlyle in a six minute single take. I am not a scotch drinker but I found Carlyle’s delivery of the story of the
Ken Imboden on Lessons From MMC, Candlestick, and NuSym
Ken Imboden offers lessons learned on developing software products from managing at large firms, and successful and unsuccessful startups.
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Interview with Rajeev Madhavan, CEO of Magma Design Automation
Rajeev Madhavan has founded three companies, ultimately taking Magma Design Automation public. We cover his background and lessons learned as a successful serial entrepreneur.
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Interview with John Sanguinetti
Co-founder and chief technical officer of Forte Design Systems, John Sanguinetti talks about his experience of turning an idea into a business. He was the principal architect of VCS, the Verilog Compiled Simulator, and was a major contributor to the Verilog’s resurgence in the design community. He has 15 publications and one patent. He also
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John Sanguinetti on an EDA Startup’s First Product
John Sanguinetti was the founder and CEO of Chronologic Simulation, a startup that developed a compiled code approach to Verilog simulation. I am working on an interview with John and came across a very interesting position statement he gave as a part of a panel at DAC 98 called “The EDA Startup Experience: The First
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Interview with Ivaylo Lenkov part 1
Anthony Scampavia interviews Ivaylo Lenkov, CEO and Software Architect at SiteKreator. Lenkov explains his team’s technique for doing daily releases.
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Francis Adanza on the Entrepreneurial Roller Coaster
Francis Adanza offers his perspective on the entrepreneurial roller coaster: you know there will be highs and lows, but you are not sure when they will occur or how long they will last.
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Paul Lippe on an Entrepreneur’s Accountability
Paul Lippe is CEO of Legal OnRamp, a community of practice website for lawyers. He did a guest post on the AmLaw Daily Blog “Welcome to the Future: Leadership, Accountability, and Swimwear” that I enjoyed, in particular his observations on the entrepreneur’s accountability were worth bearing in mind in 2009. Paul Lippe on an Entrepreneur’s
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Jeff Bezos on Strategic Planning
Excerpts that I found thought provoking and useful from an interview with Jeff Bezos in the October 2007 Harvard Business Review.
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Odd Jobs With an Even Temper
I think every startup above a certain size needs someone who can do “odd jobs” with an even temper. Especially in tough times, don’t underestimate the value of small kindnesses, humor, and calmness in a crisis.
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Scott Sambucci on “An Entrepreneur’s Lessons Learned”
I met Scott Sambucci when I spoke at TVC in July of 2007 in Menlo Park as a part of their “Entering the Entrepreneurial World” seminar. He was kind enough to blog about his takeaway from the talk in “Definition: Entrepreneurship” where he concluded that even though it was a noun it should be defined
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Norm Brodsky’s Guidelines For Entrepreneurs
The October 2008 issue of Inc. magazine made it to the top of my reading pile today and I was delighted to read another great “Street Smarts” column by Norm Brodsky “Secrets of the $110 Million Dollar Man” which offers ten guidelines for starting a successful business.
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Diane Green Out At VMWare
I was sorry to read the “VMware Announces Change in Executive Leadership” press release today from EMC. VMware’s Board of Directors announced today that it has made a change in the leadership of the company with the departure of Diane Greene as President and CEO. VMware’s Board of Directors has appointed Paul Maritz as President
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Five Questions to Ask Yourself Twice a Year
Here are five questions to ask yourself at least twice a year to help you improve your rate of learning.
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Founder Story: Debra Willrett on Inventing MacProject
I first met Debra Willrett, founder of Expert Software Consulting, at the IEEE Consultants Network for Silicon Valley (CNSV) when she gave a great talk on the new CNSV website in February of 2006. When Francis and I learned that she was the inventor of the Macintosh application MacProject, an application that has defined a
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