Supporting and Celebrating Innovation
Are you paying more attention to your competition than your cashflow or your company culture? Stop that right now, says Ben Parr. In his latest CNET column he’s outlined the seven deadly startup sins, warning: “Most entrepreneurs fall into the same traps over and over again, despite how easy they are to avoid.”
Thursday, March 22, 2012
At a certain point, they can’t get much younger or we’re going to be invested in preschool.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Now this is a pretty cool effort: Rony El-Nasha, founder of the SeedStartup incubator, has just launched Cofounder.tv, which aims to curate the web’s best entrepreneurship videos. Rony told The Next Web that the content that’s out there now is “very fragmented, it’s mixed in with a lot of junk which makes the gems hard to find.” They intend to surface some of those diamonds. He did a full interview with TNW — check it out.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Few activities prompt as many questions as starting a new company, and so every bit of useful advice is appreciated. Venture Beat has a nice list of 8 tips from a founder turned VC, drawing on his experience on both sides of the fence. Click through to learn why you should be playing up the buzz, even though you’ll have to be careful.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
He’s long been associated with the digital frontier thanks to works like Snow Crash and Reamde, but now science fiction author Neal Stephenson wants to see some big, impressive, physically present innovations. Check out his recent talk for Google’s Solve for X. If you’re really intrigued, his “Innovation Starvation” piece for World Policy is also worth a read. (h/t Boing Boing)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
