I had the pleasure of speaking at the recent Oklahoma Entrepreneur’s Conference 2010 on a panel about the rules of the road: Successes to Copy, Failures to Avoid – “Entrepreneur Panel – Moderated and structured panel discussion focused on the best and worst of the
Hootsuite is an online web application that provides a streamlined, highly customizable interface for managing multiple social media outlets, especially including multiple Twitter accounts, Facebook accounts and pages, as well as Plaxo and LinkedIn accounts. It is currently free to sign up for an account.
Since my last post [Blog Roundup: Discussion of TechCrunch post on the decline in VC returns] exploring the implications of a potentially smaller capital pool for the foreseeable future for early stage ventures, I’ve run across a couple of relevant posts on Forbes that I
After a brief hiatus, we’ve made a name change. If you came here via StartupGeek, then you’ll have noticed that we are now TechVentureGeek. We’re still going to write about technology startups, but we’re also going to write about mid and later stage technology ventures
TechCrunch Blog Post: Ten-Year Venture Capital Returns Continue To Slide (Source: Cambridge Associates LLC via TechCrunch; The crude annotations are mine.) Ouch. There are lots of problems with this 8.4% 10-year rolling average return for venture capitalists in the US. The big one, of course,
Here is a quick 15 minute video presentation of the Top 10 Unspoken Investor Questions presentation I made to the OpenBeta PitchCamp event: [VIDEO WAS REMOVED BY BLIPTV] It was funny. Call me if you want to see it.
Last month, Gale, a division of Cengage Learning, bought Questia Media, the company I co-founded in 1998. But why did they buy it? This article from Information Today seems to analyze it pretty well: Gale Reaches for More End Users With Questia Acquisition A salient
It isn’t difficult to define the most useful aspect of the Xobni add-in for Outlook for me: It automatically puts faces with e-mails, instantly, for people I’ve met, people I’ve never met – and, crucially – for people I’ve met just a few times or
A good entrepreneurial CEO will automatically report on profitability, without request or prompting. In fact, a good CEO is focused on the numbers, despite the drama involved in starting any new company. He or she will report the numbers to the investors, other executives, and
It was announced today that Gale (part of Cengage Learning) had acquired Questia Media. I co-founded Questia Media in 1998 with Troy Williams and Justus Baird. We started the company in a studio apartment on the south side of Houston, Texas. All three of us