A few days ago, I was having a conversation about entrepreneurship with someone and they suggested that schools (as in middle and high schools) should teach kids how to run a business. I couldn't resist sharing a story with him on what I learned about running a business from my school in 7th grade.Like many kids then and today, I came into 7th grade an involuntary veteran salesperson, having been
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Posted by admin 12 hours ago (http://www.wynia.org)5 Questions for Mark Suster: VC, Entrepreneur & Blogging Phenomenon
Posted by admin 12 hours ago (http://www.pehub.com)
Mark Suster is a venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur and owner of one of the best office views in Los Angeles. He also has become a blogging phenomenon, joining the pantheon of VCs whose every word is devoured by startup CEOs. He and I have spoken and emailed a few times informally, but it was about time to put something on the record.
Start-up Advice
Posted by admin 12 hours ago (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com)
Below are some of the lessons I learned along the way. If there’s a link on a title below I’ve written the post, if not I plan to. The summary of each posting will be here but the full article requires you to follow the links. For now it’s mostly an outline for me to follow (in no particular order). I’ve now started so be sure to look for links. If you want me to do one sooner rather than lat
Raising Angel Money
Posted by admin 13 hours ago (http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com)
OK, let me start by saying that I rarely do angel investing since I mostly think it’s a sucker’s bet unless you have very deep pockets or unless you’re in a tech bull market (’97-00, ’05-’08) where exits can happen without a lot of follow-on rounds of funding. If you want to know more about why I feel this way feel free to ask in the comments section and I’ll elaborate.
Venture-Capital Firms Caught in a Shakeout
Posted by admin 1 day 16 hours ago (http://online.wsj.com)
The technology bubble popped a decade ago, but the venture-capital industry that helped finance the boom stayed largely intact. Now venture-capital firms are going through their own brutal culling. Venture firms are struggling to raise new cash, hampered by poor investment returns and a difficult economy. Last year, 125 venture funds in the U.S. collected $13.6 billion, down from 203 funds that r
Want to be a VC? Try Being an Early Adopter First
Posted by admin 1 day 16 hours ago (http://jonathancavell.com)
Being a VC is all about learning to invest in companies that are fulfilling a market need in an innovative way (Ok, part of it is about identifying management teams that know what they’re doing but I’m ignoring that part for now). How does one go about the skill of identifying the types of technologies that will hit it big? Both of these give you practice doing a structured analysis of technolog
"The Genius in All of Us"
Posted by admin 1 day 16 hours ago (http://www.salon.com)
A new book persuasively argues that extraordinary intelligence and talent are not genetic gifts. David Shenk's new book, "The Genius in All of Us: Why Everything You've Been Told About Genetics, Talent, and IQ Is Wrong," is 300 pages long, and more than half of those pages are endnotes. You need to offer up a lot of evidence when your goal is to overturn a concept as commonplace as the idea that
“The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur” Talks About How He Built Zoho Into A Bootstrapped Powerhouse
Posted by admin 1 day 16 hours ago (http://mixergy.com)
The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur is what Forbes called Zoho's co-founder, Sridhar Vembu. He's become a little less unknown since that article came out, but when it bubbled to the top of Hacker News recently I read it I wanted more details about how he bootstrapped Zoho into a profitable online application provider. So I invited him to Mixergy to tell us the story of how he built his compa