Jason Calacanis has gone a little bit off the dial on “why startups shouldn’t have to pay to pitch angel investors” but he is nonetheless correct that you should not pay large fees to potential investors for consideration or the right to present. Our focus is helping bootstrapping technology startups but we do get startups […]
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If you want to find any typos, misspellings, grammatical errors, or sentences with missing words we have found the quickest way is to take a final look at the copy after the hard copy is back from the printers. Errors that eluded your notice (and those of the client, independent proof reader, and the rest
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Ed Lee and I have continued our conversation about the changing media landscape for EDA and addressed some issues that are relevant to getting back to growing the pie in EDA. What follows is an excerpts from Ed’s blog “What’s PR Got To Do With It?” with some hyperlinks added to provide more context, the
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From the EDAC website “EDA Consortium News” page the last six quarters of EDA Industry Revenue announcements (all numbers in millions): Jul-3-08: Q1/08 declined 1.2% to 1350.7 vs. $1366.8 in Q1/07. Oct-9-08: Q2/08 declined 3.7% to $1357.4 vs. $1408.8 in Q2/07 Jan-12-09: Q3/08 declined 10.9% to $1258.6 vs. $1412.1 in Q3/07. Apr-7-09: Q4/08 declined 17.7%
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Update Jan-3: Sold out. Tues. Jan. 12, 2010 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM Fortis General Counsel One Lagoon Drive, Suite 100 Redwood Shores, CA 94065 650-489-0850 Register Invest four hours now to save months later finding a path to revenue: most startups fail after they have working functionality but before they find their market. You
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Here are three good books for consultants that I routinely recommend: “Trusted Advisor”, “Secrets of Consulting”, and “Rainmaking.”
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Lenny Greenberg, a serial entrepreneur and frequent Bootstrappers Breakfast® attendee will lead our discussion this Friday about taking a long term view in business. All too often high-tech companies don’t take a long term view of their product. In the initial rush to get something to someone, companies may make tactical product choices that may
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I very much enjoyed the opportunity to present our startup stages model and the “Software Startup Maturity Checklist” at Silicon Valley Code Camp today. I have posted the slides here.
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Younger entrepreneurs bring several advantages to startups: a willingness to innovate, tolerance for failure, and a native facility with new technologies. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Lost in an all too frequent age discrimination promoted by many investors are some key advantages older entrepreneurs can offer a B2B startup: connections and social capital that can find early customers, domain knowledge, and patience.
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Good content is the basis for good marketing: your messaging must explain your knowledge of customer problems and how you can help.
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Here is the outline and slides from my talk at SFBay ACM on “Limits of I’ll Know it When I see it” about the fundamentals in applying expertise effectively.
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Athol Foden‘s encouragement I have submitted the following session (links added) for this year’s Silicon Valley Code Camp has now finalized the session schedule and my Software Startup Maturity Checklist session is set for Sunday, October 4 at 1pm in Room 5501. The description follows: This session is for both aspiring and active entrepreneurs. We
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Update Tue-Oct-20: we are sold out, no walk-ins accepted. Saturday October 24 8:15 AM – 1:00 PM (Lunch Included) Pacific Business Center 1250 Oakmead Pkwy Suite 210 Sunnyvale, CA 94085 (408) 501-8800 Click here to Register: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=jcqtg We will cover a variety of proven marketing techniques for growing your business: attendees will select one or
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Just a reminder I am speaking tomorrow night at the SFBay ACM on “The Limits of ‘I Will Know It When I See It” tomorrow night, Wednesday September 16, at 6:30pm. More information here http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=741 Location: Hewlett Packard, Oak Room Auditorium Bldg. 48, 19447 Pruneridge Ave, Cupertino, CA 95014 Cost: Free and open to the
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I first met Terry Frazier at the Accelerating Change Conference in 2003 and within five minutes we had progressed from small talk to a serious conversation about the future of information technology and I knew he was someone I needed to keep track of. I am way overdue in recognizing him as a partner and
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I came across a great way to translate 9/11 memories into action by James Lileks in Brian Dunbar’s “Remember” Remember. But move forward, too. Light a candle, yes. But also drive a rivet. It’s from a longer post Lileks wrote on Sep-13-2004 looking back on 9/11. Here are the closing paragraphs. I had thought about
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It’s hard to remember a state of complete confusion. I had dropped my boys off at school and was listening to one of least funny morning comedy routines that I had heard in a while. Something about the airport but I couldn’t make any sense of it. We were scheduled to fly to St. Louis
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“When Achilles Test Systems first started working with SKMurphy our product was complicated and our message was even more complex. SKMurphy helped us focus our product on a market that we could succeed in and create a message that was sharp, crisp and quickly show value add. They helped us understand that people’s attention spans
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