Archive for the ‘Startups’ Category
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Ukrainian session of seedcamp is over.
Chytach didn't make through, but we've got incredible amount of information, inspiration and useful advise.
Going to make 2nd attempt on "big" seedcamp closer to autumn.
Meanwhile, trying to upload my flaky and broken ;) videos to youtube...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Several days ago I was told that my "5 reasons to contract" me are plain self-advertisement and even test ethical limits. Today, after (yet another) talk full of misunderstandings, I've decided to defend the opposite thesis.
Here you have 10 reasons not to contract me or to partner with ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
There's a baby inside each adult. And every baby likes to play games.
How this matters to a startup? Well, if you give a potential user a toy - he'll stick to it. And if playing games with this toy would also do something useful to him (e.g. ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
I have been involved in more startup projects that I have fingers (and I have them all - you may check). Most of them rot.
Each time I start excited but as time passes, I see the pattern:
Your startup software project is in trouble, if
it is ...
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Sunday, September 9th, 2007
It appears that in 2005 The World Bank conducted a study about the structure of the capital in different countries:
The World Bank study defines natural capital as the sum of cropland, pastureland, forested areas, protected areas, and nonrenewable resources (including oil, natural gas, coal, and minerals). Produced capital is what ...
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Monday, September 3rd, 2007
Ask the Wizard yesterday:
The point is that “build it and they will come” isn’t true. You need to build it, and then show them exactly how it can be used, and then show them several explicit examples of why it’s powerful, and then they might come.
This means that I, ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
Got the wonderful blog post on BostonVcBlog.
Entrepreneurs are recently famous for sulkily observing that the VCs have the cushiest of lives. Unlike entrepreneurs who live and die by quarterly and annual milestones, VCs get paid generous management fees whether they seem to actually perform or not. In the ...
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