Petal Diagram Template
A couple years ago, after reading a post by Steve Blank on a new way to look at competition, I created a powerpoint template for a petal diagram. I've since…
My next Venture: SnapMake
Today, I am happy to announce my next chapter -- SnapMake. After of hours of Post Its, MVPs, pivots, scrum of scrums, and 'feeling the customer', we have secured our…
Book Review: Zero Gravity 3*
Zero Gravity: Riding Venture Capital from High-Tech Start-up to Breakout IPO I read this book years ago when it first came out (in 2000). I sometimes like to read these…
Red Herring Conf
was ok - Ray Lane spoke at the keynote on the first night dinner. There was a lot of discussion about his comment of in the near future we would…
Mechanical Turk can’t solve everything
I like it when I see Web companies rollout new and innovative services. Last week, Amazon launched a new service, Mechanical Turk. According to their about pages, Amazon's Mechanical Turk…
VCs on the couch
David Hornik's post VCitis at VentureBlog is one of the most amusing that I've read in a while. Definitely worth the read - especially for all my VC friends ;)
Book Review: The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest
I finally found a copy of this book - I'd been looking for it (albeit not that hard) for some time now - ever since I had read Po Bronson's…