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Entrepreneurship

Riding Giants – On to the next big enterprise wave

December 15, 2010

Tweet In tracing back my career over the past 13 years since I graduated from business school, I realized three constants have existed. First, I have either worked for, or started companies that designed and built software that served enterprises, including businesses and public sector entities. Second, each of these entities have been highly entrepreneurial, [...]

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My Happiness Project

April 3, 2010

Tweet Image borrowed from successandhappiness.net While on vacation over my holiday break late last year through early January 2010, I came across this blog post by venture capitalist and prolific blogger Fred Wilson. The post is about The Happiness Project, a book and blogging effort and personal initiative of Gretchen Rubin. Fred piqued my interest [...]

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The New Normal of Venture-backed startups

March 11, 2010

Tweet Bill Gross, the legendary bond fund manager at PIMCO, has been writing for a few years now about the new normal of global finance and the implications for investing and investing strategies going forward. I recently came across this awesome guest post by George Zachary of Charles River Ventures on the Venture Hacks blog [...]

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Success bred from failures – the VC model

March 2, 2010

Tweet This 2004 Stanford University eCorner lecture series interview with Randy Komisar, serial entrepreneur and Partner at Kleiner Perkins, is one of the best snippets of what it takes to succeed as a venture capital backed entrepreneur. Randy also highlights the value and key attributes of the US Venture Capital model. The video is 8 [...]

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For love or for money?

August 20, 2009

Tweet In entrepreneurship, it had better be for love. I could not resist posting this video clip of John Doerr speaking about missionary founders/CEOs vs. mercenary founders/CEOs, and why they only invest in the missionary types. Hat tip to Larry Cheng’s blog where I found this video … Larry also identifies one of the top [...]

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Innovation, Customer-focus, & Long-term Thinking

April 25, 2008

Tweet Here is a fascinating interview with Jeff Bezos of Amazon. Jeff has been on a mission since day-one of Amazon and has done an amazing job of both short-term execution excellence while keeping the company focused on the long-term goal. This post is primarily directed at my colleagues at nGenera (yes, rather than dedicate [...]

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Search the State of the Union speech tonight

January 23, 2007

Tweet Pluggd is highlighting it’s new HearHere audio and video search technology on tonight’s State of the Union speech. Just go to pluggd.com after the speech tonight and begin searching on your favorite topics and terms, and Pluggd will take you to the relevant parts of the speech immediately. Pluggd has done an excellent job [...]

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Charles River & Quickstart

November 1, 2006

Tweet TechCrunch announced today the new Charles River Ventures Quickstart program. It is a program designed to ensure that CRV gets access to deal flow in this latest startup boom of Web 2.0, where the costs to effectively get a company up and off the ground (and potentially to an exit) are substantially less than [...]

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Passion and commitment

October 30, 2006

Tweet Here is an example of entrepreneurial commitment that speaks for itself. Forbes recently wrote this article about Alex’s startup Pluggd. Even with this frugality, Pluggd gets some of the best PR out there in the Web 2.0 world, in addition to some true technology innovation and real user adoption. In the spirit of full [...]

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The Parallel Entrepreneur – Now I get it

October 29, 2006

Tweet Fred Wilson coined the term "parallel entrepreneur" in this post. Never had a term or codification for it, but it pretty much explains what I’ve been up to now. I also like how the "incubator" thing was debunked – this is very much not an incubator. I’ve been working to frame an codify my [...]

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Pluggd makes podcasts chunkier & searchable!

September 25, 2006

Tweet Congratulations to Alex and his team at Pluggd (disclosure again: I am an investor in Pluggd). They announced a new feature today to make individual podcasts chunkier and searchable, with some saavy and innovative enhancement of speech recognition technology combined with an excellent GUI. The Pluggd team is also doing some excellent work on [...]

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Pluggd in Seattle Times today

September 11, 2006

Tweet Pluggd landed an article in the business section of today’s Seattle Times. You can read the article here. Ignore the title, but the article is a good short summary of Pluggd and its opportunity. As full disclosure, I am an investor in Pluggd. They are making great progress on several fronts, including traffic and [...]

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Cash (flow) is king!

September 8, 2006

Tweet VC Confidential has a recent post on the power dynamics between VCs and the entrepreneurs they back. It is a worthwhile read for all entrepreneurs, but certainly for those that are or are considering being venture-backed. The overarching lesson is that until your business is cash-flow positive, you are at the mercy of outsiders [...]

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The return of tech IPOs?

August 31, 2006

Tweet Paul Kedrosky has an interesting post predicting that 2006 is the end of the misery for venture-backed technology companies seeking an IPO exit and that 2007 will see a resurgence. It seems that he is suggesting that the supply of attractive tech equities is shrinking (or has shrunk enough), yet the demand for tech [...]

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Interesting VC analysis

August 31, 2006

Tweet Peter Rip at Early Stage VC has an interesting series of blog posts that he is producing on Venture Capital 2.0. This post caught my attention for some data that was in it regarding ways for limited partners to successfully pick VC funds which will earn the outsized returns. I copied the paragraph below: [...]

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