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Tag Archives: entrepreneurship
Embracing Students in High-Tech
Scott Kirsner looked at how trade associations in the Boston deal with student membership/participation in a recent post. I’m on the board of The Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX), which he gives a B-. While I’m sure I agree … Continue reading
Attributing Entrepreneurial Success
I’m flying back to Boston after a crazy week of Plinking, TC50ing, CTIAing and thinking about starting a new company in the mobile space. My brain is jacked up and exhausted at the same time. So much to process… Living … Continue reading
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Tagged entrepreneurship, startups, VC, venture, Venture Capital
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Smart Entrepreneurs vs. Wise Entrepreneurs
There is a set of interrelated concepts I’m fond of reminding entrepreneurs about but I’ve never found a really good way to summarize them into a sentence that conveys the right meaning and tone. Here are various renditions: Be different, … Continue reading
The Easy Road To Incremental Innovation
I was chatting with Hank Williams today about startups and the evolving venture capital landscape and he pointed me to Judy Estrin‘s upcoming book “Closing The Innovation Gap.” I guess I just added another title to my ever-growing, impossible-to-catch-up-with reading … Continue reading
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Tagged entrepreneurship, Hank Williams, incremental innovation, innovation gap, Judy Estrin, startups, VC, venture model
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Artificial Scarcity For Entrepreneurs, Not Just Economists
Ryan Freitas @ Plinky pointed me to Aaron Schwartz’s riff on 37signals’ advice on how entrepreneurs should launch startups using the “Holywood method” (teaser, preview, launch). Aaron makes a solid point that web sites are not movies. Movies are fixed … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial scarcity, entrepreneurship, startups, Web 2.0
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MIT 100K: Web 2.0 vs. Enterprise 2.0
Well, no, that’s not how we looked at judging the MIT 100K Web 2.0 / IT track this year but I bet many were surprised that our judging panel nominated an enterprise software company–CyberAnalytix–as the winner. Bob Buderi observed the pitch … Continue reading
Top Five Suggestions For Entrepreneurs From IDEO
The 2008 Nantucket Conference opened up with a session led by world-class design firm IDEO. The session title was Design Thinking for Entrepreneurs: Identifying New Markets and Developing the Winning Product or Service. Although they could have designed a better … Continue reading
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Tagged contextual design, design, entrepreneurship, IDEO, Nantucket Conference, startups, Tim Brown
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For The Wanna-Be Entrepreneurs Amongst Us
My friend Ajit Jaokar writes a very personal post about a Pink Floyd music video–Learning to Fly from Momentary Lapse of Reason–that had a profound influence on his life. The video of Learning to fly is deeply symbolic and metaphysical. … Continue reading