Ideas
« Previous EntriesBoost Your Creativity At the Ideafestival
Sunday, August 5th, 2007Conferences are a fantastic networking tool for outside the valley entrepreneurs. It’s a chance to rub elbows with like minded folks and hear the latest ideas and trends discussed and debated. Many of the best conferences are, of course, in the Valley. But over the last few years there is an increasingly […]
Using an Investment Broker When You’re Outside the Valley
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007Ask the VC has an interesting counter post by Donna Murdoch of KeyStone Equities that is worth a read.
Donna’s letter is in response to Jason’s post “Are there Venture Capital Brokers?“.
Donna’s post, and I think the point is very well taken, is that in the Valley where the ins and outs of venture financing are […]
It’s The Network, Not The Valley, That Causes Success
Thursday, July 5th, 2007I recently stumbled across the research of Annalee Saxenian. She has studied Silicon Valley and high tech hubs in other countries. She compared Valley companies to those in Boston during a time when Boston was much less successful, and determined that the collaborative networked nature of the Valley was a key to it’s […]
How To Compete With The Valley: Step 1 - Stop The Brain Drain
Friday, June 15th, 2007From the Wall Street Journal comes this great article about Pennsylvania’s efforts to stop their brain drain. It is something that any city should do to have a vibrant startup economy. Keeping the smart well educated people that grow up or attend college in an area is easier than attracting well educated people […]
The Next Big Thing
Monday, May 28th, 2007Sometimes it is easy to see where a trend is going. Most people know that apps on mobile phones are going to be more and more popular. But what about the web in general? What is the next big trend?
Web 2.0 wasn’t about what people thought it was about. […]
IdeaConnection.com - The Idea Trading Ground
Thursday, May 17th, 2007Have you ever wondered what it would look like when web 2.0 met Idea creation? Seriously. How could that website make money?
Meet IdeaConnection.com. Don’t get me wrong. I love this idea. The basic business model is bringing problems, solutions, inventions, patents, etc together with people that can make them grow. There is an entrepreneur/investor section […]
The Realignment of America - Why The Future of Tech is Outside the Valley
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007In today’s Wall Street Journal, Michael Barone discusses the realignment of America. It seems that Americans are moving out of the major coastal population centers and transplanting to the Heartland.
The nation’s center of gravity is shifting: Dallas is now larger than San Francisco, Houston is now larger than Detroit, Atlanta is now larger than […]
Speedpitching
Monday, May 7th, 2007Ever wondered how “speedpitching” works? Line up some investors, line up some entrepreneurs, give them 7 minutes to make their case. Could you be convincing? Here is a video about how it works.
Built To Flip
Friday, April 20th, 2007Valleywag posted the following quote by Michael Sikorsky, chief excecutive of Canada’s Cambrian House. “We really are built to flip. I’m the only guy who says that out loud. I don’t know why everyone lies.”
Apparently, this was said about the prevailing attitude of the Web 2.0 expo to the San Fransisco Chronicle.
Stepping back from the […]
Cumulative Advantage and OtV
Thursday, April 19th, 2007Just read a very interesting and thought provoking article from the NYTimes — Is Justin Timberlake a Product of Cumulative Advantage? by Duncan Watts. It reminds me of the perception altering experience of reading Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point.
Techmeme points to Mathew Ingram’s great synopsis. Apparently the article has already received a lot […]
