Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main. | Pizzas, People and Progress » May 22, 2006. Pick Your Investor With Care. The great day has arrived.  Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.   Just this morning,  he call

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Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2006

Numerous studies have pointed out that while almost all Fortune 500 companies have great investments in "Web Analytics" they still struggle to make any meaningful business decisions. Most people complain that there are tera bytes of data and giga bytes of reports and mega bytes of Excel and PowerPoint files. Yet no actionable insights, no innate awareness of what is really going on through the clutter of site clickstream data.

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BeyondVC

MAY 19, 2006

Have we been through this discussion before? Remember the eWeek article from last year titled " Is.Net failing to draw VC loyalty? " and the corresponding discussion in the blogosphere, including my post ? Well, it seems that SAP is taking a page out of the old Java venture fund camp to seed companies and help them build on a Netweaver platform.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 17, 2006

We all wish that our key internal partners, business decision makers, would use Web Analytics data a lot more to make effective decisions. How do we make recommendations / decisions with confidence? How can we drive action rather than pushing data? The challenge is how to separate Signal from Noise and make it easy to communicate that distinction. This is where Excellent Analytics Tip #1, a recurring series, comes in.

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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

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Occam's Razor

MAY 22, 2006

This post is a primer on the delightful world of testing and experimentation (A/B, Multivariate, and a new term from me: Experience Testing). There is a lot on the web about A/B or Multivariate testing but my hope in this post is to give you some rationale around importance and then a point of view on each methodology along with some tips. I covered Experimentation and Testing during my recent speech at the Emetrics Summit and here is the text from that slide: Experiment or Go Home: Customers ye

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Occam's Razor

MAY 15, 2006

Imagine walking into and out of a supermarket. If you did not purchase anything then the supermarket managers probably don't even know you were there. If you purchased something, the supermarket knows something was sold (they know a bit more if you use a membership card). Visiting a website, you leave behind a significant amount of data, whether you buy something or not.

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BeyondVC

MAY 12, 2006

I had the opportunity to attend my third Microsoft VC Summit in California on Thursday. It was a great opportunity for VCs to network with Microsoft’s top executives. This year’s focus was on Unified Communications, Saas, and Windows Live (includes MSN). While I won’t go into excruciating detail on the sessions, one of the highlights wass having Steve Ballmer give a frank discussion on how VCs and startups can work with Microsoft.

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Tim Keane

MAY 9, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Getting Over The Capital Hurdle | Main. | The Entrepreneurs Financial Toolbox » May 09, 2006. Are You Learning Every Day? Im struck by the number of people I meet who are running new businesses that seem to repeat the same mistakes.

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Tim Keane

MAY 8, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « How Do You Teach Entrepreneurship? | Main. | Are You Learning Every Day? » May 08, 2006. Getting Over The Capital Hurdle. "My question is how you get over the capital hurdle when you have a product that straddles the fence between the need for Angel Investors and VC money and your friends and family cannot get you over the hump?

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Tim Keane

MAY 2, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Why Seths "Dont" is 95% Right | Main. | Competitors and Territory Maps » May 02, 2006. The CEO Needs To Sell…Again. Here’s a post from Jason Caplain , a VC in Ralieigh, NC with another take that adds more meaning to the discussion about the entrepreneur being the chief sales guy.

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Tim Keane

MAY 1, 2006

'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Bet on the Stubborn Ones | Main. | The CEO Needs To Sell…Again » May 01, 2006. Why Seths "Dont" is 95% Right. Heres a succinct comment by marketing guru Seth Godin on funding companies. Every entrepreneur thinking about funding a business ought to read it.

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