As work progresses at Black Mesa Ventures on the launch version of GEOINTELIS, I ran across this blog entry: Ghost in the Pixel » Only real artists ship I heard Guy Kawasaki say something similar at a conference I was at least year: Just ship
Quick blog roundup of things I’m reading: Great post on ReadWriteWeb on what a great web service should accomplish: Build an Insanely Great Web Service. An interesting, although highly generalized, post on Slate.com about the purchase of Mint.com by Intuit for $170MM last week: The
A truer statement has never been made: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/07/the-art-and-skill-of-working-with-bureaucrats.html This jives with my experience: We have to charge our municipal and large corporate clients much more than we charge other clients just to cover the sales overhead, which includes dozens of unnecessary meetings, 8 to 12
Here’s one of my favorite blog posts for the early-stage entrepreneur. This is from Noah Everrett, a local entrepreneur in Tulsa, Oklahoma with global social network impact through his TwitPic application: Nusoni blog » Blog Archive » Startup Tips for the Early, Early Days
Here’s a great post about what really drives sophisticated venture capital investors in the online service space: Reid Hoffman: My Rule of Three for Investing I think the point about capital efficiency is the one that entrepreneurs often miss. Numbers 1 and 2 are defining