…or, why VCs do what they do. VC behavior sometimes looks insane, but generally it’s just sound economics. It’s crazy but true: if you know how a VC gets paid, you can pretty much read their mind.
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VC insanity, explained
Posted by admin 26 days ago (http://www.danshapiro.com)AWS Start-Up Challenge
Posted by admin 27 days ago (http://aws.amazon.com)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a set of services that together form a reliable, scalable, and inexpensive computing platform 'in the cloud'. These pay-as-you-use cloud computing services include Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon FPS, and others.
i/o Ventures Spotlights Female Entrepreneurs With The WIE Prize
Posted by admin 27 days ago (http://techcrunch.com)
i/o ventures has partnered up with notable females Arianna Huffington, Donna Karan and Sarah Brown to put together the first Women In Engineering Prize, and will be announcing the winner at the first WIE Symposium on September 20th.The deadline for hopeful female founders to apply is Sept 10th, and the lucky and hard working winner will receive 25k in investment, become part of the i/o program, g
The Accidental Launch
Posted by admin 27 days ago (http://blog.rapportive.com)
We accidentally got 10,000+ users in 24 hours, and funding from Y Combinator just a few days later. This post tells that story. We were determined to take part in Y Combinator, so we spent weeks crafting our entry and polishing Rapportive. At the start of March, we were finally ready. We held our breath and clicked "Submit". We looked at each other, relaxed, and slowly started to breathe again. A
Is Your Startup A Cash or Equity Business?
Posted by admin 29 days ago (http://blog.eladgil.com)
Figuring out what sort of business you want to start, (or, in hindsight, have started) impacts everything from whether you should raise money to how to compensate your employees. A fundamental misunderstanding of what sort of business you have can lead to mistakes that derail the success and potential of the company.
The Next Silicon Valley
Posted by admin 29 days ago (http://measuringmeasures.com)
An economic cluster. A network of networks, rich in financial and social capital spanning every area of technology, all focused on developing and commercializing new technologies. It is the center of a one hundred ten year technological renaissance, the Florence of our time. The most determined, hungriest, and most talented have flocked to the Valley from every corner of the world for more tha
In search of serendipity
Posted by admin 31 days ago (http://www.economist.com)
Success in business increasingly depends on chance encounters. EVERY year, hordes of free spirits gather in the Nevada desert to “breathe art”, feel at one with the cosmos and sample the delights of Bianca’s Smut Shack. The Burning Man festival is radically anti-capitalist, with a strict ban on commerce and an emphasis on “self-reliance”. In short, it is not the sort of place you would associate
Startups die for not having customers, so STOP thinking about how to scale
Posted by admin 31 days ago (http://www.aorsi.com)
If you think that scaling is one of the main issues you need to focus on while building your new disruptive web application…well think twice. It is quite sure you won’t have anything near to a mass adoption anytime soon. Instead you will have a quite slow user-curve acceptance and maybe some peak. But focusing on the architecture and scaling possibilities of your app for millions of users is just