The document provides advice on starting a startup. It discusses finding a problem to solve, focusing on execution over ideas, hiring people better than yourself, prioritizing relentlessly, and focusing on products and sales to generate profits rather than seeing financing as the goal of success. Fundraising advice includes starting with friends and family, then pitching to angels and VCs, with the goal of securing a small seed round before larger rounds.
We are Creative Thinking professionals, driving the Open Innovation cultural change for major companies.
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The VALUE CHAIN (VC) YACHT: Discover and Solve Customer Problems Better, Fast...Rod King, Ph.D.
It is a truism that organizations that survive and prosper are those that discover and solve customer problems better, faster, and cheaper. This presentation introduces a fun tool, the Value Chain (VC) Yacht, that enables startups as well as established organizations to discover and solve problems better, faster, and cheaper. The VC Yacht is an extremely versatile tool for problem finding and solving. The VC Yacht can be used to illustrate, derive, explain, and apply over 40 tools that are used for finding and solving problems.
http://goo.gl/b5FGHZ
Startup Funding Options - From Kickstarter to Venture Capital - Dreamforce 20...Salesforce Partners
What if you could get the inside scoop on the key drivers that leading venture capital firms look for when funding a cloud startup? Join us to learn the tips and techniques used to attract VC funding for your company, including Force.com ISV success stories. This session is primarily for C-level, business development, and entrepreneurs
The Sky’s the Limit – The Rise of Machine LearninInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor and SkyTree
Live Webcast on June 24, 2014
Watch the archive:
https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=1da2b498fc39b8b331a5bbb8dea2660f
With data growing more complex these days, many organizations are looking for ways to make sense of new information sources. The goal? Sprint ahead of the competition by exploiting fast-moving opportunities. The challenge? The data volumes, variety and velocity call for significantly greater horsepower than ever before. That’s where machine learning comes into play, and it’s already fundamentally changing the Big Data Analytics landscape.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains how advanced analytics technology can transform the enterprise. He’ll be briefed by Martin Hack, CEO of Skytree, who will tout his company’s machine learning solution for big data. Hack will discuss the critical challenges facing today’s data professionals, and present use cases to show how machine learning can help organizations leverage big data as a capital asset. He’ll specifically address the power of predictive analytics, which can help companies seize opportunities and prevent serious problems.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
We are Creative Thinking professionals, driving the Open Innovation cultural change for major companies.
Our mission is to provide tools and processes to accelerate the prototyping and deployment of your next billion dollar idea, with a seamless experience from novice to expert.
The AirBoard is a thumb-size, Arduino-compatible, wireless, low-power, ubiquitous computer designed to sketch Internet-of-Things, fast!
Visit http://www.theairboard.cc
The VALUE CHAIN (VC) YACHT: Discover and Solve Customer Problems Better, Fast...Rod King, Ph.D.
It is a truism that organizations that survive and prosper are those that discover and solve customer problems better, faster, and cheaper. This presentation introduces a fun tool, the Value Chain (VC) Yacht, that enables startups as well as established organizations to discover and solve problems better, faster, and cheaper. The VC Yacht is an extremely versatile tool for problem finding and solving. The VC Yacht can be used to illustrate, derive, explain, and apply over 40 tools that are used for finding and solving problems.
http://goo.gl/b5FGHZ
Startup Funding Options - From Kickstarter to Venture Capital - Dreamforce 20...Salesforce Partners
What if you could get the inside scoop on the key drivers that leading venture capital firms look for when funding a cloud startup? Join us to learn the tips and techniques used to attract VC funding for your company, including Force.com ISV success stories. This session is primarily for C-level, business development, and entrepreneurs
The Sky’s the Limit – The Rise of Machine LearninInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor and SkyTree
Live Webcast on June 24, 2014
Watch the archive:
https://bloorgroup.webex.com/bloorgroup/lsr.php?RCID=1da2b498fc39b8b331a5bbb8dea2660f
With data growing more complex these days, many organizations are looking for ways to make sense of new information sources. The goal? Sprint ahead of the competition by exploiting fast-moving opportunities. The challenge? The data volumes, variety and velocity call for significantly greater horsepower than ever before. That’s where machine learning comes into play, and it’s already fundamentally changing the Big Data Analytics landscape.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from veteran Analyst Dr. Robin Bloor as he explains how advanced analytics technology can transform the enterprise. He’ll be briefed by Martin Hack, CEO of Skytree, who will tout his company’s machine learning solution for big data. Hack will discuss the critical challenges facing today’s data professionals, and present use cases to show how machine learning can help organizations leverage big data as a capital asset. He’ll specifically address the power of predictive analytics, which can help companies seize opportunities and prevent serious problems.
Visit InsideAnlaysis.com for more information.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
38. quot;To serve the world's most engaged community.quot; (AOL 2006)
dumb
quot;To scout pro table growth opportunities in relationships, both
internally and externally, in emerging, mission inclusive markets,
and explore new paradigms and then lter and communicate
and evangelize the ndings.quot;
85. (last deals i saw for conv angel rounds
w/1st-time entrepreneurs in this market
before they stopped)
75% warrant coverage
50% discount
10% per month warrant coverage
20-30% discount in good market