March Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
Francis Adanza shares his perspective on companies presenting at the March 6 2007 Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup.
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SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC’s: Seed Investments
This morning I attended the SDForum Quarterly Venture Breakfast with PWC’s Seed Investment Report given by Steve Bengston from Emerging Company Services (ECS) group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. In the United States, last year the reported amount of VC investments totaled to $25.5B. Of the 25.5B, 1.2B was invested at the seed stage across 311 companies. Moderator
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Startup Epicenter Offers Intensive Workshops, Challenge & Festival
Startup Epicenter Offers Intensive Workshops and a Festival in March of 2007 with a line-up of VCs and experienced entrepreneurs as speakers.
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Getting Early Feedback
Getting early customer feedback is critical to fine tuning your product so that you can scale up. The temptation is to use a on-line survey tool to save your time, but I think for your early customers a questionnaire may only give you the answers that you are looking for, not the information that you need.
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Building Communities using Search Co-op
We leveraged the Google Search Co-op starting in 2006 but Google has renamed that Programmable Search and blocked our original use case.
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Julian Fellowes on Persistence, Getting Started, and Logical Consequences
Commentary on Julian Fellowes answers to 3 interview questions about the need to get started, persist, and accept the logical consequences of your choices.
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VC Investment in Asia and What It Means to Korea
Tonight I attended a KIN / KASE Event: “VC Investment in Asia and What It Means to Korea.” The guest speakers were Han Kim, Partner at Altos Ventures and Tae Hea Nahm, Partner at Storm Ventures. VC Investment in Asia and What It Means to Korea I have heard many VC’s speak on how they
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2 Disruptive Trends: Open Source & SaaS
Key takeaways from a talk by Barry Klawans, CTO of JasperSoft on comparing benefits and drawbacks of Software as a Service (SaaS) and Open Source.
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Clark Dong: Software Startups Don’t Need VC’s To Start
Clark Dong gave an interesting demonstration of a new action item tracking tool for startups called TaskPick at last night’s SDForum Startup SIG. He came on after my show and tell on how and why we use Central Desktop in our practice. He was articulate and energetic and I was very impressed with his approach. His message below is
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What’s Your Passion?
Don’t forget the dream to change the world that got you started: your passion is an important element of craftsmanship and a commitment to excellence. What’s Your Passion? Recently, I chatted with a well-established consultant–she’s been working for more than a decade. She was having trouble developing a short elevator pitch to describe what she
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9 From Greg Knauss’ “An Entirely Other Day”
Greg Knauss wrote “An Entirely Other Day” sporadically from 1994 to 2006 (with five year or so gap between 2001 and 2006 and who knows, he may start up again). It’s experiential blogging at its finest, with some sharp observations–some introspective–of work, marriage, children, illness, aging, and death.
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Kierkegaard on the Art of Helping Others to Understand
An excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard writing on helping others to understand. The key is to start from a deep understanding of the other person’s world view. This echoes Steven Covey’s fifth habit: “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
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Ten Tips for Leveraging Blogs and Wikis in Your Consulting Practice
Is my topic this Thursday, February 15, at 7:00 PM, at the IEEE-CNSV meeting at KeyPoint Credit Union, 2805 Bowers Ave., Santa Clara, CA. The event is free. I will cover a number of practical suggestions for using blogs to promote a consulting practice and wikis to foster project team collaboration against a deadline. Blogs and
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Interesting Discussions From Fast Forward 2007
Key takeaways triggered by Fast Forward 2007 talks, still a huge difference between Internet search and enterprise search.
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Recipes For Longevity in “Mutual Improvement Clubs”
Mutual improvement clubs are an older version of a community of practice or a stakeholder meeting. Here are some recipes for keeping them going from William Feather and Ben Franklin.
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Bootstrappers Breakfast – Bootstrapping Startups Invited
Bootstrapping startups invited to join other bootstrappers–startup CEO’s, CTO’s, and founders–for breakfast and discussion. We meet at different restaurants in Silicon Valley from 7:30-9AM
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Greg Knauss on Bloggers: Experiential vs. Referential
Greg Knauss was a guest blogger on kottke last year and ended his two week stint with this observation on referential and experiential blogging: There are two kinds of bloggers, referential and experiential. […] The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned elsewhere: Look at
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William Feather on “Perseverance Rewarded”
In “Perseverance Rewarded” William Feather offers some good advice for getting started. Many folks succeed because they don’t realize how hard it is to accomplish what they have set out to do (of course several orders of magnitude more fail).
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Pixar’s Ed Catmull Highlights Value of Post Mortems
A summary of a keynote by Ed Catmull at The Annual Stanford Entrepreneurship Conference. Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios.
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Going Solo or Partnering Panel: Stanford E-Conference
Today I attended the 2007 Entrepreneurship Conference at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. One session that I truly enjoyed and found very informative was the “Going Solo or Partnering” Panel. Going Solo or Partnering Panel: Stanford E-Conference Below are three questions and answers I believe capture the importance of developing a solid team. Moderator Andy
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