BeyondVC
AUGUST 9, 2006
Oftentimes I am asked what my plan for exit is when I invest in a company. Sure I have a plan when I invest, but it is impossible to predict the future. The best plan in my mind is to make sure that any company we invest in has a tremendous market opportunity with a real business model and high operating margins that can eventually generate real cash flow.
Occam's Razor
AUGUST 10, 2006
Some of you have heard me speak at a conference , I always have a deep passion and excitement when I talk about the “Trinity” I wax and wane about it and go on and on about how fantastic the “Trinity” is. But it took a comment from Lisa Seaman to make me realize that I had not written about the “Trinity” on this blog.
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Tim Keane
AUGUST 21, 2006
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Listening to Entrepreneurs | Main. | Learning from Failure » August 21, 2006. When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data. I saw that on a t-shirt worn by a bartender at the Milwaukee Irish Fest last night.
OnlyOnce
AUGUST 17, 2006
Fractals of Change: Are You an Entrepreneur? Tom Evslin's entertaining Top 10 Ways You Know You're an Entrepreneur. Some may dovetail nicely if I ever write up my read of The Fountainhead through entrepreneurial lens!
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
Occam's Razor
AUGUST 28, 2006
How many metrics can you call adorable? Site abandonment rate is an adorable metric, to me : ), for these reasons: Money, money, money baby. IMHO there isn't a metric out there that can tell you a lot so quickly and any improvement you make to it will directly and immediately impact the bottom-line. It measures the customer interaction in a very small number of web pages, probably one for cart and two to three for checkout.
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BeyondVC
AUGUST 23, 2006
Everyone knows that hindsight is 20/20. Back in 2003 when we were deciding whether or not to sell Expertcity (GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting) to Citrix or continue fighting the fight and attempt to take the company public 1 year later, it was quite a gut-wrenching decision. Ultimately we decided that the risk/reward ratio to sell at that time was better than going for the public offering.
Tim Keane
AUGUST 10, 2006
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Do You See The Big Picture? | Main. | When All Else Fails.Manipulate The Data » August 10, 2006. Listening to Entrepreneurs. The consistent feedback each semester during my "New Venture Formation" graduate class is that the guest speakers were the highlight of the course.
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