William Quigley Interview | blog.Mixergy.com
"William says too many entrepreneurs talk about the market as it is at the time they pitch.
He prefers a presentation that starts by talking about where the market is right now and who the current players are. And then the pitch needs to explain where the market and each competitor is likely to be in the coming years. Finally, he wants to know how your company fits in this universe."
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By Jeffrey Chester | The Nation
"the question is this: do progressive organizations have the courage to get into the game? Will they have the creativity to engage in a well-coordinated series of pilot projects and initial ventures (including expanding what has already developed online), to perfect business and ownership models that help create a diverse and socially responsible ecosystem of our own?"
A VC | Musings of a VC in NYC
"Then I got lucky. The Internet came along. I didn't know anything about the business of the Internet. But then nobody else did either. I was 10 years into my career which wasn't going anywhere as far as I could tell, I was antsy to do something big, and here was something that sure looked big to me. I convinced Euclid to invest in a few early Internet deals and became friends with the crazy entrepreneurs who ran them. It was a blast and in the span of two years, 1994 and 1995, I had found my calling."
Nick Tredennick, with Brion Shimamoto | IEEE Spectrum, September 2001
Y Combinator
"VCs know how to deal with engineers, but engineers don't know how to deal with VCs. VCs take advantage of this situation to maximize the return for the venture fund's investors. Engineers are getting short-changed."
By Scott Shane | Small Business Trends
"In short, the sector of the economy in which you start your business has a huge effect on the odds that your company will still be around several years in the future."
Source: Adapted from Knaup, A. 2005. Survival and longevity in business employment dynamics data. Monthly Labor Review, May: 50-56.
Business Financing eXpert | The XBanker
"For better or for worse, the truth is that the industry you are in will play a fundamental role in the bank’s decision on whether to lend you money."
by Joshua Green | The Atlantic.com
"How Silicon Valley made Barack Obama this year’s hottest start-up"
Photograph by Jonathan Sprague
Pragmatic VC
Steve Barsh's views on building successful companies, entrepreneurship, technology, and venture capital investing.
"For the many entrepreneurs I meet with and who will hopefully read my blog posts, I ask you to please stop thinking about code and start thinking about marketing. Positioning is a great place to start.
So, how do you come up with great positioning?"
| GigaOM
"a common sense approach to effective negotiation rooted in five basic ideas. And if you can manage to absorb and apply these five rules, you’ll be much better off going into your next deal."
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Guest author Brian Solis | TechCrunch
Solis "explains how public relations has changed and offers up 12 secrets of PR for startups.
He is the Principal of FutureWorks, a PR and New Media agency in Silicon Valley and also blogs at PR 2.0. Along with Geoff Livingston, Solis recently co-authored Now is Gone,
