What Changes the Second Time Around?
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged but I’m trying to get myself back on it again. I thought I’d kick off on the backs of our seed investment into appRenaissance announced today. The CEO of appRenaissance is Bob Moul, whom I had backed in his last company Boomi in 2008. They were a pioneer [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Purpose!
I was introduced to a great video around motivation by Brad Feld’s blog. If you haven’t watched it, it’s worth 10 minutes of your time. Much of what Brad and the video highlights is very relevant. The primary idea was debunking the notion that pay and performance are linearly correlated. While true in mechanical tasks, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Love & Flux in a Time of Seed
I was at a panel earlier this week, when a question was asked from the audience. “Are we in a seed bubble?” Well, between the rise of super angels, the proliferation in micro-cap funds, and a shift in some LP interest towards the seed stage or emerging managers with small funds, it does not take [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )A Little Human Touch?
For the past decade, business on the Web has focused on driving usage and user base independent of a clear financial model. Charging for products or services with utility was anathema to the cause of driving user adoption. Systems were designed to create as much “automation” as possible to allow for massive scalability with minimal [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Don’t Ignore the Obvious
My partner Larry Lenihan recently passed me a great article in Wired on the neurocognitive basis on which people absorb and discard information. The author used the famous case of two scientists who built very sensitive radios to map the emptiness of space, and kept hearing a persistent noise. They spent years tuning their radio [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Entrepreneur’s Guide to Surviving the Credit Crunch
Given the events of the last few weeks, there are many provocative questions being asked about what the subprime implosion and subsequent bailout mean to all of us. Will the bailout bring liquidity back to the market? Are we descending into the worst recession we have seen since the 1930s? Is the US secretly a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Entrepreneur’s SEO – “Startup Exit Optimization”
I was chatting with a start-up CEO today, who had received some early inbound interest from a potential acquiror. Without any discussion of price, he asked me innocently enough, “Should I think about it?” I started thinking about the positioning of the Company and the phase, and offered the following. I think most start-ups go [...]
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