Tag: Entrepreneurship
Narrow, Different, Casual, Picky, User-Centric, Self-Centered, Greedy, Tiny, Agile, Balanced and Wary.
"Focus on focusing", "Biggest cost is time, not money", "Trust you gut. Timing is everything", "The power of time off" and "Always make the best decisions"
Top three reasons why VCs were convinced that we would have failed: we did not have a rock star CEO, we were all engineers and we contradicted Gartner.
The Kauffman Foundation, the world's largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship, recently released a new study entitled "Making of a Successful Entrepreneur".
A blog about entrepreneurship, ideas, current affairs, and intellectual life.
David Heinemeier Hansson is the author of the immensely popular Ruby on Rails programming framework, and creator of Basecamp, Campfire, Highrise, and Backpack, and authors of the widely read Signal vs. Noise blog, 37signals.
Mark Suster, "I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by F’ing up at my first company. I think the sign of a good entrepreneur is the ability to spot your mistakes, correct quickly and not repeat the mistakes. I made plenty of mistakes."
Mark Suster, "I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In case it’s not obvious it’s a play on the Nike slogan, "Just Do It."). I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done..."
Most entrepreneurs eventually step down and hand their companies over to professional CEOs, often at the insistence of their investors. Mark Zuckerberg hasn't done that.
Have you thought about starting a program like Y Combinator in your city?
Business owners are the happiest workers in America, according to Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index poll data collected from January to August.
Ten Crack Commandments list with its underlying message for modern business operators.
Matthew E. May wrote "Conventional wisdom says that to be successful, our ideas-be they designs, strategies, products, performances, or services-must be concrete, complete, and certain. And when it comes to managing a company big or small, we need organizations to be highly ordered, with a strong and well-defined structure. But what if that’s wrong?"
Raising money, managing business, strategy, positioning, company core values, product development, customer development, human resources, marketing, finance, legal and operations.
The winners and finalists of TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009.
For the last 25 years, entrepreneurship has been widely heralded as the path to fame, fortune, and following your own vision while avoiding working for "The Man." It’s nice when it works. More times than not, it doesn’t.
The list of 50 promising tech startups from BusinessWeek.
European Startups helps you to keep track of events and get in touch with people who can help you and your startup succeed.
EuropeanStartups is a portal and a tool targeting entrepreneurs interested and/or engaged into European Web start up scene.
Marty Zwilling wrote that potential startup founders are always looking for ideas to implement, when they should be looking for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions, and there is no market for ideas.
John Bardos wrote how to retire on $500 per month.
Randall wrote "The first thing you have to figure out is what's your problem. What burdens you? What slows you down? What costs you money? In my earlier career as a consultant a year out of college, they taught us to identify the pain. Pain is debilitating. Pain killers are valuable to medicine. The day pain died was a very big day for medicine.".
Link to the interesting discus on YCombinator News about Before you turn 40, get a plan B article.
John Fuex wrote about Plan B for programmers after 40. Here are some viable options: work for the one person who would never discriminate against you, give in to the dark side and go into management or you’ve got a cash cow, milk that sucker!
Thomas Kjeldahl Nilsson wrote "Starting a new pet project is easy. But finishing it? That's a different story."
Under the Radar tracks early stage innovations focusing on startups.
"Ten Things I Have Learned" by Milton Glaser.
When underdogs break the rules by Malcolm Gladwell.
BusinessWeek.com's annual rundown of the most promising tech startups and the young people, age 30 and under, who set them in motion.
The list of top 100 Australian Web Startups from April 2009.
Mason Hipp listed 20 useful, thought-provoking, and potentially lucrative sources of news and ideas blogs about entrepreneurs.
Paul Graham wrote on his blog "it's better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people semi-happy. I was saying recently to a reporter that if I could only tell startups 10 things, this would be one of them."
A special report on entrepreneurship from The Economist said "The triumph of entrepreneurship is driven by profound technological change. A trio of inventions—the personal computer, the mobile phone and the internet - is democratising entrepreneurship at a cracking pace".
Daniel Tenner wrote about starting up with a friend "It seems like a fool-proof plan: start up with a close friend. It's not a bad idea, but there are a few caveats that you should be aware of before you proceed".
The 100 Best Business Books of All Time separated into Leadership, Strategy, Sales and Marketing, Rules and Scorekeeping, Management, Biographies, Entrepreneurship, Narratives, Innovation & Creativity, Big Ideas and Takeaways categories.
Dustin Curtis wrote "Entrepreneurship is not just the process of having an idea and then building a business. A true entrepreneur has to predict the future. The idea that a businessperson is great because he had "built a company from the ground up" is missing a major component- - the entrepreneur's original hypothesis."
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an invitation-only event where the world's leading thinkers and doers gather to find inspiration.
Bob Martens replayed to post "Why Your Startup Shouldn't Copy 37signals" by "the article is referring to ideas and business models, but I think interface design is an example more people can relate to. Have you seen an interface that was obviously copied from someone else’s interface? The copy usually lacks depth and detail. They miss the spacing, the proportions, the relationship between colors and objects and buttons and links. It’s usually pretty close, but there’s something not right about it."
Dharmesh Shah wrote "I don't know about you, but I'm tired of getting lectured about how my business should be more like Toyota, and like Zappos, how my blog should be more like Joel Spolsky and like Copyblogger, and how my software should be more like 37signals and like Apple."
Signal vs. Noise is a weblog by 37signals about design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture, and more.
Website started in early 2000, hosted by Dave Winer's UserLand on his new Manila publishing platform. I just started banging out articles about the business and management of software, including a whole book about user interface design. All that stuff is still here, and I’ve been adding to it ever since. I’ve also published four books which are mostly just edited versions of this website, and I speak at conferences several times a year.
For startup companies (help the right job seekers find you and make the whole team–building process as easy as possible) and for job seekers (help you learn as much as possible about growing startups so you can find where you fit best and to make the job search process as fun and easy as possible).
Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds.
My today guest on Software Project Management is Piotr Ukowski. Piotr is an entrepreneur who started his business with a couple of friends two and a half years ago. In the following interview we discussed starting a business and bringing a startup into success. If you think about running your own company you can find Piotr’s thoughts very interesting.
Last time I shared mistakes we made while working on Overto – startup which was closed down some time ago. Today another part – things we did right and are worth replaying next time I’ll be engaged in a startup.
Some time ago we closed down Overto – startup I was involved in. It was a failure – pretty obvious thing since we’ve closed the service. Since we learn much on our mistakes I think a reliable analysis why the business have failed should be valuable for you. For the beginning things we screwed.
Pawel's blog is about software development lifecycle. There you can find a range of topics from software design, to project management, to team-building, to management of software development company.