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Author Archives: Simeon Simeonov
Finally
After more than four years, I finally updated the theme of this blog and added better linking to FastIgnite and FastStartup. The new theme is Twenty Ten, which sets me up for planned obsolescence in less than three months. Know any … Continue reading
The Zen of fundraising
When investing in companies through FastIgnite, I usually sell my super-secret value-add as opposed to just cash. See, cash is not that hard to get if you know how to ask for it and there aren’t any obvious reasons for … Continue reading
Posted in FastIgnite, startups, VC, Venture Capital
Tagged agile, angel investing, FastIgnite, seed investing, startups, VC, Venture Capital
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FastStartup
Through FastIgnite I work closely with entrepreneurs as a co-founder, investor and mentor. Today, FastIgnite gets a partner – FastStartup. While FastIgnite is primarily about my work, FastStartup will be more community-oriented. FastStartup will do some events, like the sold out Customer … Continue reading
The Startup Holy Trinity
My last post was about agile ideologies, the practice of suspending disbelief and trying something without too much thinking or tweaking for long-enough to collect quality data but not long-enough to go native and lose perspective. A great starting point … Continue reading
Agile ideology in startups
I am not a fan of ideologies. Inflexibility of thinking or the ability to take reality into account rarely leads to great outcomes. Just look at history. Methodologies, on the other hand, I like. The difference between the two is in … Continue reading
Posted in Life, startups
Tagged agile, agile ideology, Bob Dorf, customer development, FutureM, General Catalyst, lean startup, Life, startups
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The master moves to the cloud
Fact: data is moving en masse from PCs and enterprise networks to SaaS applications in the cloud. This trend will reshape the computing industry and change the very core of how we think about data and applications. For example, we … Continue reading
Posted in cloud computing, Google, Microsoft, startups
Tagged startups, cloud computing, Google, Microsoft, Google Gears, Backupify, cloud data, HTML5, ChromeOS
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Finding the best startup customers
Phil Libin (@plibin, CEO of Evernote), Alexei Erchak (CEO of Luminous Devices) and I did a session with the Boston chapter of the Founder Institute last night. Towards the end of the program we listened to several startup pitches. Every … Continue reading
Google Voice vs. Survey App
I think voice recognition, especially when combined with dynamic, data-driven systems is a Big Thing. That said, we have a long way to go as demonstrated by this slightly edited Google Voice transcript of its interaction with an automated survey … Continue reading
The next reincarnation of cloud computing
Over Memorial Day weekend I wanted to play with CrunchBase data. I wrote a quick bash script that pulled data from CrunchBase and put it in MongoDB, one of the new databases from the NoSQL movement. In the process, I … Continue reading
Posted in amazon web services, cloud computing, SaaS
Tagged amazon web services, cloud computing, Google App Engine, Heroku, IaaS, PaaS, Paul Maritz, Programming, SaaS, vCloud, virtualization, VMWare, Werner Vogels
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iPhone economics, startup economics, angel investing economics
Tomi Ahonen has collected a lot of good data about the iPhone app ecosystem and applies solid analysis to reach the conclusion that, from an economic standpoint, on average, it is a waste of developers’ time to build iPhone apps. … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Mobile, startups
Tagged angel investing, angel returns, Apple, Apple AppStore economics, AppStore economics, iPhone, Mobile, startup economics, startups
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