BizEquity on valuation, from the Demo conference. Photo credits on Picasa Web albums. Google Gears for Apple’s Safari browser. Startup Meme is a good place to look for news, rumors and tips on Internet startups. Yes, I know, there are a lot of others–techmeme, engadget and techcrunch, just to name a few leaders; but I’ve [...]
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Sept 3-5th Palo Alto software was a platinum sponsor for the ASBDC annual conference which was held in Chicago this year. As always we had a great time supporting the ASBDC and all the SBDC counselors who work hard to help America’s small businesses succeed. We had the pleasure of teaming up with John Jantsch this [...]
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I love the title of this post, although it isn’t mine; it’s the work of John Battelle of Searchblog, writing on American Express OPEN Forum. The worst business meeting I ever suffered through was with a bunch of marketing people who were forced to figure out where and how, and to whom to sell a [...]
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I was in San Francisco two weeks ago for Office 2.0 conference. The effort was the third installment of Ismael Gahlimi’s pledge to bring together leading minds in the Web 2.0 space for a 3-day discussion about moving the duties associated with work off of the hard drive and onto the Internet — exclusively. That [...]
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I was speaking to a group of entrepreneurs a few weeks ago when somebody asked me: “But what about this economy, these times . . . does it make sense to start a business now? Shouldn’t we all wait for things to clear up a bit?” Ah yes, the voice of doom. It does us [...]
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Business owners face risks and compromises when they sell stock in their companies or accept outside investment. Tim Berry has post on this topic several times on his Up and Running and Planning Startups Stories blogs. Reading Tim’s blogs, and watching the Yahoo! vs. Carl Icahn brouhaha reminded me of the novel Crytomonicon by Neal [...]
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The simple pitch at fairsoftware.net is very attractive: Team up (find people you can trust), sell, share (reward your team). Our unique system is powered by a legally sound contract, the “Software Bill Of Rights,” in which virtual “shares” represent decision-making and revenue-sharing rights. It’s easy to give shares to anyone who helps out in [...]
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This is hard for me to post, because it–well, the headline, at least–seems so negative. Still, I’ve been dealing with a number of startups lately, and it seems like we all need a refresher reminder: “I don’t know the secret to success, but I do know that the secret to failure is trying to please [...]
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