Entrepreneurship

Tweet Alex Castro, founder and president of Pluggd  was interviewed recently on the Web 2.0 Show podcast. Here is a link to the podcast on Pluggd. For those that are curious as to why Pluggd exists and why it will succeed, listen to Alex on the podcast. In addition to his vision and passion for [...]

Tweet It’s a big question when executing on a startup, particularly on the consumer side of the Web 2.0 market. A much discussed thread over the past 6 months or so argued that the first 50k or so of users of a consumer Web 2.0 service is easy, since all of the early adopters try [...]

Tweet Is Google forgetting or overplaying its entrepreneurial roots? Jeff Nolan  and Silicon Beat each had postings today that give me pause for conern as a Google shareholder. While wiz-bang features draw in the new users and win hearts and minds, it’s the slow and steady grinding of features that wins the long-term profit streams. [...]

Tweet I came across a couple of interesting posts today exploring the opportunity of exploiting the vast array of information available on the Web for investment gain. Fred Wilson posted here with his perspective from being located in the financial capital of the world. He references some companies that have had success in this area [...]

Tweet After a holiday break and a lot of work without blogging, I am back to writing some posts. Right now I’m going to post a few echos of good stuff that I’ve found. Jeff Nolan of SAP and Venture Chronicles has a post here on keys to a solid software demo. Well worth a [...]

Tweet Ed Sim at BeyondVC has an interesting post today on entrepreneurial team building addressing probably the most critical aspect of it …. namely the issue of  when to hire key executive roles and the notion of the overstacked early stage team. I like Ed’s thoughts on the overstacked team problem. I cannot wait to [...]