Start-Up IPOs Go Elsewhere
> Not many Silicon Valley companies have gone public in recent years. And as 2009 draws to a close, the past 12 months have followed the same lackluster pattern. > > Through early this week, eight ven...
How much seed money should I raise? – Venture Hacks
> [](http://cdixon.org/2009/12/28/whats-the-right-amount-of-seed-money-to-raise/) > > Chris Dixon, serial entrepreneur and seed-stage investor: > > > “… You should try to answer the question: what is ...
Leave Them Wanting More
> > > There has been lots of talk about how best to pitch. A Harvard Business School professor recently noted how energy and comfort matter, and Keynote is better than PowerPoint. Sarah Tavel with Bes...
Tips for Using Social Media for Business
> If you’ve been involved in the online marketing field over the last few years you’ve probably already familiarized yourself with your share of acronyms; SEO, PPC, CPA, CTR, ROI and not to mention th...
Black&White™ — A simple model for innovation
> Finding the next big thing is probably one of the biggest challenges in the world of startups. A lot of companies, entrepreneurs and VC’s spend a considerable amount of time and money figuring out w...
Sales for Startups (Building the Machine | For Entrepreneurs)
> The sequence of steps > > Building the machine involves the following steps: > > 1. Identify your buyers > 2. Diagram their buying processes > 3. Add to this diagram the steps you will take to addre...
Our top 10 posts of 2009 – Venture Hacks
> I really wanted to be a cool cat and make a list of the most popular outgoing links for 2009 —a top 10 list of other people’s posts. But it wasn’t meant to be — we don’t have the Javascript installe...
Is the Tipping Point Toast? — Duncan Watts | Fast Company
> > > > > Order Versus Chaos > Duncan Watts’s research tells advertising execs precisely what they don’t want to hear: All their clever (and lucrative!) targeted viral campaigning may ultimately be le...
How to manage a company – Video summary of Awesomely Simply
via holykaw.alltop.com If you only have 10 minutes to learn about managing a company, inspiring employees, and keeping things rolling, check out this video....
New York Startup Movement | Michael Karnjanaprakorn
> What sets New York apart from the rest of the world? New York attracts the most creative, ambitious, and hard-working people into one extremely diverse city. There’s an energy here that can’t be rep...
Cyberport IncuTrain Centre accepts highest ever number of incubatees
via cyberport.hk Cyberport IncuTrain Centre recently admitted the highest ever number of incubatee companies. A record 22 new start-ups were accepted on to the scheme in October and November. This lat...
How Much Does That Customer Cost?
via forentrepreneurs.com This seems to be a pretty well thought out and detailed summary weighing the cost of getting a customer to the profit that is generated by them. This is looking at that next s...
What Startups Can Learn from Lady Gaga
> Reading Niederhoffer’s post I was immediately struck by how much startups can learn from Lady Gaga. Read his full post, but three things in-particular jumed out to me as related to startups: > > 1) ...
Startup Founders Need Visa Love Too
> As we finish up the year, I’m really pleased with the progress the Startup Visa gang is making. I started thinking about, writing, and working on this on 9/10/09 when I wrote the post The Founders V...
Should I market my product right after launch? at Me, Myself and Muziboo
> A Bootstrapper’s Diary > > The big question that awaits us all after we – a 2 or 3 member bootstrapped team – have cranked out enough code to launch a web product is “How do we market it?”. A sensib...
US$5 and 2 hours to make most money? Best team didn’t even use any $ at all.
via Check out more videos at Tones of great speakers and talks there!...
We’re not Japanese and we don’t build cars | Agile Zone
> In 1979 a group > of western dignitaries visited Japan to learn more about the manufacturing > models that had been applied to great success. Konosuke Matsushita, the > president of Matsushita Corpo...
HK Startup Summary 2009
via rexchung.com...
Starting Lean
> Here’s a few good resources to actually learn what Lean Startups are all about. > > A good fast intro: Eric Ries Lean Startup talk at MIT — videos! > The blog, Lessons Learned, by Eric Reis, is all ...
Can a single bottle of soda decimate your company? Absolutely. | VentureBeat
via entrepreneur.venturebeat.com Sometimes financial decisions that are seemingly rational on their face can precipitate mass exodus of your best engineers....