Startups
The Lean Startup
I finally carved out some time to read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The Lean Startup is a methodology rooted from the product development world of manufacturing and applied to new and existing businesses in the startup value chain.
A system developed by Eric Ries in an attempt to add more scientific method and structure to the startup process. [...]
Renting Desk Space
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Is renting desk space for me?
Many of us are familiar with the office leasing landscape from previous ventures, but the last few years have seen a huge rise in new ways to rent office space – a key one being desk space rental. But is it for you?
The key disadvantage of leasing an office [...]
Sonar mobile
Day 1 of NYDisrupt startup finalists in the location category surged the stage with Karizma, SpotOn, Sonar, Arrived, and Gnonstop Gnome all pitched their wares. Geo-location continues to be a red hot space for startups and although GetAround won the overall NY Disrupt, Sonar was my personal favorite with no exception. Sonar is a [...]
Apple WWDC 2011 Keynote Coverage
The apple Word Wide Developer Conference got underway today with over 5200 attendees. Steve Job’s opened the Keynote as usual stating hardware is the brain of our products, and software is our soul. This conference will be about software.
OS X Lion
Phil Schiller, SVP of product marketing for Apple pounced on to the stage with the [...]
Venture Capital
Playdom raises another $33 Million in VC
[/caption] Social gaming startup Playdom raised another $33 million from Walt Disney, Steamboat Ventures, New World Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners. This infusion of cash is on the heels of $43 million dollars from nine months ago. So far sources indicate the cash has been used for acquisitions of social gaming startups. The original [...]
Andreessen Horowitz
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Internet Entrepreneur legend Marc Andressen and business associate Ben Horowitz have created a $300 million venture capital fund called Andreessen Horowitz. Investments in startups will range from as small as $50,000 to $50 million dollars. The strategy is too get as many game changing companies with seed money as possible probably [...]
Seed Program at Spark Capital
Spark Capital has launched a seed program for entrepreneurs called Start at Spark and will fund a convertible loan up to $250,000 bucks (converted to equity at a 20% discount in the second round of funding).
This is very similar to the CRV start program at Charles River I touched on a couple years ago. [...]
The Funded reveals term sheets
I Posted on The Funded in 2007 shortly after initial launch. The company that lets entrepreneurs rate VC’s based on their various experiences has yet again raised the ante. The new service from The Funded will allow entrepreneurs access to the elusive term sheet. If you are unfamiliar with a term sheet check out three [...]
MySQL sold for $1 billion dollars
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MySQL sold for $1 billion big ones…this is huge news. 2008 is officially the year of open source. The open source database startup MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems for $1 billion. MySQL was originally funded $39 million from Benchmark, Index, IVP, Intel, and SAP.
TechCrunch stated:
Startups with similar business models – managing [...]
