Tag Archives: startups

A Few Key People

June 10, 2011 – 10:55 am

I keep coming back to Mark Suster’s Techcrunch/BothSides article — just great advice about new venture management and jumpstarting regional technology ecosystems. I finally decided to just reproduce the whole thing here for my own easy reference. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. [...]

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Prehype helps companies execute on “20% projects”

May 30, 2011 – 9:37 am

Prehype aims to come into a company and identify its “intrapreneurs.” Then, they will host the employee or employees a la Google’s 20% time, building a new company outside of the original company. Another way it works is if an employee has an idea and seeks out Prehype. Prehype will then help them convince their company [...]

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Building companies on top of tech infrastructure

May 30, 2011 – 9:23 am

The East Coast tech-scene is booming because we are going through a phase where experience design, clever new business models and distribution is becoming as important as the technology itself. The new East Coast growth companies are standing on the shoulders of the tech platforms that the West Coast has built over the past decade [...]

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NYC Digital City Road Map

May 19, 2011 – 11:06 am

via nyc.gov Beyond the press about NYC partnerships with consumer internet companies like Foursquare and Tumblr, there is a lot of great information in here about increasing citizen access to technology, opening up government data, and supporting a thriving tech ecosystem.

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Vancouver: Come for the mountains, stay because you’re weird

November 14, 2009 – 3:17 pm

We do more world-changing things [in Vancouver] than the rest of the country combined. Why here? Is it because we have mountains? The best brand-new breakthrough ideas come from people who don’t think like everyone else. They have to be weird people. What was it that got them here and how do we preserve that [...]

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Clicktrance: VC edition

January 28, 2009 – 11:21 am

1. Wondering what happened to serial entrepreneur Marc Pincus, founder of Tribe.net — the social network I used a lot post-Friendster and pre-Facebook when I was more in the SF Burning Man world. 2. Found he sold the software and engineering of Tribe to Cisco in 2007, which I vaguely remembered, and started a casual [...]

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