Archive for April, 2007

Startup recipes

Monday, April 30th, 2007

I belive that receipes for startups do not exist, but there are some statements that could be used as guidance when starting a company:

Trevor Blackwell
Watch people who have money to spend, see what they’re wasting their time on, cook up a solution, and try selling it to them. It’s surprising how small a problem can be and still provide a profitable market for a solution.

Paul Graham on 37signals: Programming At Warp Speed
The Lesson: Create a simple product as fast as you can, then get feedback from customers and make it better.

Paul Graham: Handling Investors

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Just a quick link to a very good coverage of Paul Grahams speach on April 11th at the Stanford University about handling investors, enjoy:

Paul Graham: Handling Investors

by  Matt Jaynes of http://blog.nanobeepers.com

Startup School 2007

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Unfortunately I missed the Startup School 2007 event held at Stanford University. The only way to get some interesting content out of the event is by watching and reading the coverages posted on the web.

Very humoristic presentation of Paul Graham of YCombinator why to not not start a startup (Posted by Larry Kubin).
Startup School Presentation by Paul Graham of YCombinator

A post by Matt Mullenweg founding developer of Wordpress.
Kapor vs Zuckerberg

Some very good notes from Kent Bye.
2007 Startup School Notes

Venture Beat review.
Start-up advice for entrepreneurs, from Y Combinator Startup School

Some review by Olexandr Prokhorenko.
The Startup School review

And here some Video’s of the 2006 Startup School.

Guy Kawasaki: The Art of the Start - Video

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

If you would like to see a very good presentation about the Art of the Start, I can suggest the following Video. Guy Kawasaki Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures has a very humoristic way to tell some rules when starting a company:

Guy Kawasaki “The Art of the Start” @ TiECon 2006

The Art of the Start a short overview of the ten rules:

  1. Make meening
  2. Make mantra
  3. Get going
  4. Define a Business Model
  5. Weave a MAT (milestones, assumptions, tasks)
  6. Niche thyself
  7. Follow the 10/20/30 rule
  8. Hire infected people
  9. Lower the barrier to adoption
  10. Seed the clouds

For more details and examples on each rule watch the video.

Supernova 2007

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

After the netvibes launch party and O’Reilly’s Web2.0 Expo another very interesting conference is heading up here in Silicon Valley, Supernova 2007. The most interesting part beside the workshops with speakers like Reid Hoffman founding CEO of LinkedInand Michael Arrington founder of TechCrunch is the Connected Innovators program.  Showcase of some of the hottest startups in the field of Web2.0.

The format is simple, <<12 selected companies will have the opportunity to deliver 5-minute onstage product presentations / demonstrations>>. This has multiple interesting aspects. Fist of all it is a very good plattform to present, so if you are interested in launching soon or need some additional public facing (Who does not?) and have ‘the’ mindblowing startup you may apply here. But deadline for submission will be 27 of April, so move now.

Another very important aspect is how to do a good pitch presentation. This is a plattform where 12 starups invested there very best to create a 5 minutes presentation/demonstration. These are 12 perfectly shaped speeches which enable you to learn how to prepare your own presentation.

If you can’t attend in person you may still be able to get some footage of the confernence via the twitter channel.

So enjoy and let me know if you will head out to San Francisco.

(To get registration discount for the supernova conference go to the end of this TechCrunch post and use the posted priority code to get 200$ off the registration fee)