A friend wrote a great post yesterday on how he thinks about angel investing as he is just getting into it. This is the person who won the “prospective angel investor” VIP ticket that i gave away to the upcoming Angel Capital Summit. It’s an interesting read and gives you some insight about how this …
Don Dodge is the Director of Business Development for Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. Basically, Don’s job is to help VC’s and startups be successful with Micorosoft technologies. That’s a big job and Don does a fantastic job. He always seems to be around the important early stage companies, groups, and events. Don also runs an …
I spent the day at the Defrag conference today. There was a bunch of interesting content and Eric Norlin and crew did a great job recruiting top minds to the event. I was sitting next to Ross Mayfield (Founder, President of SocialText) as he blogged the the first two sessions in great detail. First up …
Boston Globe – nice coverage of Startup Weekend in Boston. It all started in Boulder, and has become a worldwide phenomenon. 5280 chimes in on the caution about managing too tightly with milestones. Almost as many people seem to be building iPhone apps as are building Facebook apps. Good news, check out the iPhone Dev …
Since falling in love with Inbox Zero and really Getting Things Done lately while working only four hours a week (hahahaha! – not!), I find that I now have another new methodology for taking back my work time. I’m calling it Calendar Zero. I’ve picked one and a half days a week and declared them …
Heres the second of my series of posts on my top twelve startup tips from Techstars this summer. It’s about finding and engaging great mentors. Most first-time entrepreneurs that I know only seek out mentors for their companies when they decide they want funding. They do it because they have to, as part of the …