Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Any ambitious innovation must target to fix the problems of tomorrow considering the technology environment of tomorrow. Fail to consider the future environment and you might be pouring R&D dollars into the bin.
Innovations that did bet on tomorrow:
Remember when Gmail launched in 2004? It offered 1GB of storage when other ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Tim O'Reilly interviews Martin Varsavsky during the Web 2.0 Expo Europe last month. Martin is a serial entrepreneur that successfully created Jazztel and Ya.com to compete with Telefonica in fixed telephony and Internet access in Spain in the late 90s. He later IPO'ed Jazztel and sold Ya.com to Deutche Telekom ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Highly recommended videos for anyone planning to ask funding from venture capital. Guy Kawasaki is one of the star entrepreneurs and venture capitalists of Silicon Valley, and if you listen to his speech you will understand why.
I extract from the talk the ten slides Guy advises when presenting your idea ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Guy Kawasaki -entrepreneur, venture capitalist and blogger- writes a funny article about how entrepreneurs usually approach venture funding, compared to a new way to start up your company, what Guy calls "Plan B for Fund Raising" and others call bootstrapping.
To summarize Guy's article, he tells the typical story of a ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
SpinVox, founded in 2003, is a pioneer in delivering speech-to-text applications. SpinVox claims it has agreements with twelve telcos, to provide a system to translate voice mail messages into SMS or emails. These days SpinVox has been in the news because it just secured $100 Million financing from Goldman Sachs, ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
This is a guest post on Guy Kawasaki's blog from Scott Shane, professor of enterpreneurship, author of The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live
Below are Scott Shane's top ten myths and the realities behind:
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It takes a lot of money to finance a new ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Thanks to Internet, entrepreneurship is getting much easier and less risky than ever.
In the past, to create a start-up, the first steps were to put the team together, gather an initial investment, work on a prototype, test the market, and sell your vision to seed or venture capital, to fund your growth.
Now, more entrepreneurs ...
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