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Archive for July, 2009

BizSessions 1.0 – The rising theory of the lean startup

Posted in bizsessions, Stories from the Trenches, tagged , , , , , on July 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

On July 14th, we had our first BizSessions event (which i helped get off the ground) in a San Francisco venue.   The general purpose of the event (www.bizsessions.com) is to help tech entreprenuers get more insight into business side of making a successful startups. The theme for the first event was funding in current cash startved [...]

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Why something for someone is better than everything for everyone

Posted in Stories from the Trenches, Tech start-up - How to, tagged , , , on July 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Malcolm X said that if you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything and this stands just as true in the world of technology start-ups. The reality is that most technology start-ups start around cool technology that engineers came up with (even though the stories in retrospective often might say differently). the problem [...]

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How to make sure you never get funded again

Posted in Stories from the Trenches, tagged , , , , , on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In the story that appeared yesterday on TechCrunch, the founders of a company called Mochi Media went to the press to try and kill an acquisition deal that their investors favor and the founders don’t. Here is why the story irks of BS and how it should have been played: 1. You are worth what [...]

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