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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007One of the things we preach here at OTV, is the importance of networking. Get out and meet people and your startup will do much much better. You never know who you will meet that may have some interest in whatever it is that you are doing. For some of you, social […]
Single-person businesses top 20 million
Monday, July 30th, 2007In the ‘60s the saying was “turn on, tune in, drop out”. Well, that didn’t last, but today, we have the corporate version happening.
The “Drop Out” part meant that individuals would pursue self-reliance, choice, and change for themselves. Right now, the US Census Bureau reports that over 2,000 people a day in the US are going into business […]
How to Create a Local High-Tech Hub
Sunday, July 1st, 2007One of the coolest essays on creating a tech hub was written by Paul Graham. How to Be Silicon Valley gives the recipe for cooking up the next tech hub. He makes a lot of important points about what creates a tech center, and what does not. Here are some of my key take aways:
1. A […]
Kauffman Says Entrepreneurship is Alive And Well Outside of the Valley
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007The latest Kauffman Index of entrepreneurial activity has some surprising hotspots. While it was filled with good news for the South and the East, the Midwest was called a declining area.
The rate of entrepreneurial activity decreased in the Midwest from 0.26 percent in 2005 to 0.22 in 2006. As a result, the Midwest had […]
The Next Web Conference
Friday, May 11th, 2007Looks like a cool web conference, “The Next Web Conference”, is coming up that features a wide spread of European web 2.0 companies. Worth checking out.
Here is the recent list of submitted startups:
Wakoopa
Submitted by: Wouter Broekhof (Co-founder)
Tagline: Use it, track it, share it
Weblog: blog.wakoopa.com
Visitopia
Submitted by: Atze Zwirs (Managing Director)
Tagline: Visitopia. Where the […]
Nerds Need To Get On A Plane
Friday, April 27th, 2007Howard Lindzon, founder of the excellent stock-meets-pop-culture web show WallStrip, recently responded to Charlie O’Donnell’s top ten reasons web 2.0 sucks with his own post claiming that Web2.0 doesn’t suck - just Silicon Valley.
That means you read it once a day to stay up to date on what the nerds are saying - maybe 10 […]
Techcrunch20 Conference
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007TechCrunch just announced that they will be organizing a conference, to be held Sept 17-18 in where else but…San Francisco. The concept: Choose 20 of the “hottest” startups, based on “merit”, and provide them with a BIG forum to demo their product/service/application.
Of the “chosen one’s”, it will be very interesting to see the spread […]
Don’t be Phil Rankin
Friday, April 6th, 2007Everyone knows of Jared Fogle, the Subway celebrity who lost 200+ pounds but do you know Phil Rankin? If Phil had his way, Jared’s incredible weight-loss story would have never escaped the school paper at Indiana University.
Phil was the new marketing director for Subway corporate and when Jared’s story was pitched by his ad […]
Startup Concentration Outside of Silicon Valley
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007In response to an email question about the number of startups outside the valley, I found this interesting graph at OReilly Radar. In order to equal the startup power of silicon valley (from a hiring perspective, since this is based on jobs), you would have to combine the ratings of the next 6 or […]
VC tips for startups outside the valley
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007Popular Question and Answer venture capital blog ‘Ask the VC’ has a post yesterday giving tips for startups that operate outside Silicon Valley, Boston, or NYC.
There are some great points in that post, including find the local entrepreneurship ecosystem by seeking out other companies, researchers and universities, and finding advisors who can introduce you to […]
