Axon Capital lanza el segundo fondo (1)
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Axon ha lanzado su segundo fondo de 15 MM€ y espera llegar a los 40 MM€, parte de estos fondos provienen de la Comunidad de Madrid (3MM€) y el resto de inversores privados, como la empresa Bwin. El objetivo de estos fondos es invertirlos en compañías en fase de desarrollo y con un fuerte componente tecnológico. Axon, en su primer fondo tiene el siguiente portafolio: Aquamobile (reconocimiento de imágenes a través móvil) Enigma Software (desarrollo ...
UK fastest growthing websites (1)
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Albert publica en su blog que Trovit es el segundo site que más crece en UK según Nielsen/Netratings. Leyendo el informe una de las cosas que me llamó la atención fue MyVoucherCodes y FairExchanges, dos sites dedicados a la búsqueda de cupones descuentos y descuentos. Ambos tienen un modelo de negocio muy claro y según muestra Nielsen con mucho potencial de crecimiento, esta claro que tanto en USA como Inglaterra el uso de cupones es ...
Renai LeMay’s ZDNet blog increasing coverage of Australian start-ups (1)
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The flourishing Australian start-up scene is about to get yet more coverage. Renai LeMay, having returned to CNET (now CBS Interactive) as News Editor from a stint at the Australian Financial Review, has set up Bootstrappr, a blog covering Australian start-ups. Below I have put his guide to getting coverage on his blog – an extremely rare instance where I respond to a request for coverage, since it’s in a good cause :-) So far ...
How to interview key hires (6)
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Startup founders often need to hire people into areas that they don’t know anything about. This can be a technical founder hiring a VP marketing, a business development founder hiring a VP Engineering, or a product management founder hiring a VP Ad Sales. Often these hires are some of the most importantthat a company makes as they fill the holes in a founding management team. There are three things that you should test a potential ...
To get funded or not? (2)
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One of the most interesting debates taking place recently in the start-up scene regards -maybe somehow expectably- the arguably most critical of dilemmas an entrepreneur faces: Should I get funded or not? In and between the frenziness of meeting and pitching to VCs, raising the biggest amount of money at the least time possible, then getting really big and acquired or just sell out to retire young, a different -less opportunistic and literally closer to ...
Patience is a virtue that I just don’t have (but I’m working on it) (1)
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Mothers have a way of making truthful statements that bug the heck out of their kids. My mom was no exception. When I was growing up, one of her favorite things to tell me was “patience is a virtue.” Even writing the words today almost make me growl with disgust and slam the door. That’s the teenager inside of me, of course. I have fought a life-long battle with patience. I know that this story ...
Haberler: Intel Inovatif Fikirlere 100.000 Dolar Destek Verecek (1)
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Intel, teknoloji kullanarak geliştirilen eğitim, sağlık, çevre ya da ekonomik gelişime katma değer yaratacak yenilikçi fikirleri ödüllendireceğini duyurdu. Intel Developer Forum‘da konuşan Craig Barrett, bu ödülü; kazanan 4 fikrin hayata geçir ... Kategori: Marketing Etiketler: çevre Craig Barrett destek eğitim fikir fon Gençlik girişim Girişimcilik Intel intel inside intel logo İş Fikri kredi melek melek yatırımcı Ödül proje proje desteği sağlık start-up startup sürdürülebilirlik venture Venture Capital yarışma yenilikçilik
Junge Deutsche High-Tech-Unternehmen international erfolgreich (1)
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Junge deutsche High-Tech-Unternehmen wagen schnell den Schritt auf internationale Märkte: Bereits in den ersten Jahren nach ihrer Gründung erzielen 31 Prozent Umsätze im fremdsprachigen Ausland. Das zeigt eine am 6. August in München vorgestellte Studie, die das Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim, in Zusammenarbeit mit Microsoft Deutschland durchgeführt hat. Start-ups, die selbst intensiv Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) betreiben, sind dabei besonders erfolgreich und können ihren technologischen Vorsprung auch international ausspielen. Doch eine strategische Vorbereitung ...
Don't Always Think the Worst When "Big Boys" Enter Your Market (3)
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One of my partners used to always assume that competition from one of our big national healthcare competitors was always a bad thing for our business. Sometimes he was right, but often our business would actually improve in the face of that competition. The competition would bring more attention to us. If we had a new service, the competitor was able to bring attention to that new product or service for all of us in ...
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Jay said:
This also holds good, when it is a new market - the large competitor invests a lot more to evangelize the market about the advantages - the guys who don't have such a marketing clout, just get more visibility with a lot more customers based on this.
How to capture your user value proposition (9)
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In the past I’ve written about encapsulating your business plan for potential investors in an executive summary, or even more succinctly as a high concept startup pitch. This is helpful for communicating to angel investors and VCs, but it doesn’t help you communicate to new and potential users of your product why they should try your site. Whether you plan on acquiring new users through viral growth, SEO, SEM or banner advertising, the basic principles ...
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David said:
Good advice.
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francine said:
I can never get entrepreneurs to do this properly. They launch into a long story, and assume that some ad agency (post-funding) will help them through this later.
The checklist (1)
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I know I blogged about this before and that it has been the subject of many many discussions - for those of you hanging around me - but if you have not read The Checklist from The New Yorker last year, then you need to head on over and give it a read. I am just saying if "something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?".I am a huge fan of ...
Present your start-up to 400+ european VCs (6)
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On 1 and 2 December 2008 the second edition of the European Venture Summit will take place in Düsseldorf, Germany. The first edition took place in Lisbon with more than 400 prticipants. If you have a start-up and want to present your company to 360° Capital Partners, Earlybird Venture Capital, Go4Venture, Innogest SGR, Forrester Research GmbH, Northzone Ventures, Biznessence, AGF Private Equity, Quest Management NV, Schneider Electric Ventures and almost every other european VC than ...
Reed Sturtevant on Microsoft’s relevance in a start-up world (3)
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Reed rocks The geek in question: Reed Sturtevant The job title: Managing Director of Microsoft Startup Labs What are you working on right now? Hiring in Boston! Our group is in start-up mode. The first of us got hired last fall, and now there are 12 of us. We’ve got seven people who’ve accepted who haven’t started yet. What kinds of stuff will you be working on? The idea is to create an internal, Boston-based ...
Mozilla’s John Lilly Speaks! (4)
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I met John Lilly last October on a decidedly odd techie scavenger hunt in Hawaii–trapped in a van all day while searching for tikis and such, as if we were a geek Brady Bunch (yes, BoomTown works that hard for you)–and found him to be just the kind of quietly intelligent, thoughtful and self-effacing digital exec that Silicon Valley could use a lot more of in these often frivolous, look-at-me Web 2.0 days. Soon after, ...
How to implement reporting and analytics for your startup (9)
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Andrew Chen has a good post on how a startup should think about implementing analytics that I think applies to companies of all sizes and is worth reading. He notes: In general, a philosophy on the role of analytics within a startup is: If you’re not going to do something about it, it may not be worth measuring. (Similarly, if you want to act to improve something, you’ll want to measure it) Don’t build metrics ...
MyFacebook sidebar gadget (1)
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A few days ago at the 1st Facebook Garage Athens, Konstantinos Pantos gave a sneak peek at his Facebook gadget for Windows Vista sidebar. MyFacebook brings into your desktop new messages, pokes, friend requests, albums, lists and events, plus it shows your status and a scrolling display of your friends’ statuses, while it also lets you update your status right from your desktop; we think it’s cool. You may check out Kostas’ presentation embedded below ...
TechCrunch goes Open Coffee Athens: Sojourner, the video (2)
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George Kasselakis, creator of the Sojourner platform presented the technology behind the Sojourner Feed Reader. In the video and presentation which you can see below he also announced the separation of key Sojourner plugins as standalone desktop and web hybrid applications.
