Tim Keane
OCTOBER 19, 2006
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Calculating Market Share | Main. | Due diligence: An Entrepreneurs Perspective » October 19, 2006. Thinking about pricing. When mapping a market, its important to study pricing strategy. This seems like an obvious comment.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 17, 2006
On the heels of my earlier post on questions " entrepreneurs should ask themselves ," I got a flurry of emails from readers about other points that I did not address. Anyway, I strongly believe that we can sometimes get too enamored with our own technology and not do enough market assessment in the real world. Later this week, we are actually going to have a strategy review at one of my portfolio companies and these are the questions we are asking ourselves: What is our unique value prop
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Occam's Razor
OCTOBER 23, 2006
The title of my presentation at the Washington DC Emetrics summit was: Creating a Data Driven Web Decision Making Culture – Lessons, Tips, Insights from a Practitioner. My hope was to share tips and insights that might help companies move from just having lots and lots of data to creating cultures where decisions are made not on gut-feel, or the proverbial seat of the pants, but rather based on data.
OnlyOnce
OCTOBER 6, 2006
Feld Thoughts: Falling Down and Getting Back Up. Brad's colorful, quick posting on "how running is like entrepreneurship.
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
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 14, 2006
Mike Masnick of Techdirt has launched a new service called the " Techdirt Insight Community." Mike is an active blogger but also has run a corporate intelligence service for awhile mining the web for customized news and insight tailored for your company (think competitive analysis, updates, reviews on your products, etc. – check out Jeff Nolan’s guest post on Venturebeat for more).
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BeyondVC
OCTOBER 29, 2006
I have seen the future of VOIP and it is not about making calls from a headset on my computer or buying a new VOIP phone to carry around with me – it is seamless integration of VOIP with your existing cell phone, it is one device which gives you the flexibility to make calls on either network depending on coverage,reception, and cost, it is the new Nokia N80 dual mode phone.
Tim Keane
OCTOBER 30, 2006
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Thinking about pricing | Main. | Dealing with Attorneys and Legal Advice » October 30, 2006. Due diligence: An Entrepreneurs Perspective. Due diligence by an investor, seen from the entrepreneurs point of view, is all good.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 24, 2006
I had 2 board meetings last week, and it seemed that we spent a fair amount of time digging into each company’s sales process, understanding and mapping out each phase of the sales cycle from sales lead to to actual installed customer. Many times one can focus too narrowly and only look at a sales pipeline or customer conversion rate and spend too much time talking about the numbers – did we make or miss our quarter and did we grow our sales pipeline and by how much.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 12, 2006
Andy Sacks, CEO, of Judy’s Book has an excellent post of what simple questions management can ask themselves to assess their current state of play. If you are an entrepreneur, I encourage reading his post and some of his follow up commentary (Andy’s questions below). What are the hardest problems in our current business approach – the market issues that we keep struggling with over and over?
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 12, 2006
In a recent Barron’s article on Cisco titled "Getting the World WIred (sorry, sub required)" is an interesting comment from CEO John Chambers: While these new technologies are giving Cisco’s current customers reason to upgrade, Cisco also is seeing growth of nearly 50% a year in its sale of networking systems in emerging markets like Saudi Arabia.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 12, 2006
It is always great to see hard work rewarded. Congratulations to Steve Klein, Pierre Berkaloff, and the rest of the Colloquis team (my partner Ned Carlson is on the board) for building the company over the last few years and making this happen. For any startup there are always a few missteps along the way but being flexible and adapting to the market to find the right opportunity is key.
Tim Keane
OCTOBER 11, 2006
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « Increasing the Probability of Success | Main. | Calculating Market Share » October 11, 2006. The Sound of One Hand Clapping. The sound of one hand clapping: 1. Telling a customer you are busy--when you aren't 2. Telling a VC you have another term sheet -- when you don't 3. Telling an investor the round is 80% su
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 10, 2006
By now, everyone knows about the Google – YouTube deal, $1.65 billion for a leading online destination video site. There is not much I can add, but I did find this comment interesting from Andrew Ross Sorkin’s NY Times article : The idea of a deal had been broached a few days earlier. The setting was classic Silicon Valley start-up: a booth at Denny’s near YouTube’s headquarters in San Bruno, Calif.
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 5, 2006
I was riding on the train this morning and was talking to a friend about one of my fund’s portfolio companies. She mentioned that the management team had done a great job during a recent sales presentation because instead of going for the "rip and replace" strategy, they went with the "co-exist" philosophy. Too often, entrepreneurs can get too enamored with their own technology and forget that the customer may not need every feature that you are offering today.
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