Archive for the 'Startup' Category

Launching at Innovate!Europe

Monday, June 6th, 2005

Next week a startup focused on “photos” that a great team of people that i’ve put together has been working on for quite some time will launch at Chris Shipley’s (of Demo fame), Innovate!Europe conference - selected as one of the few European startups getting the chance to demo. Really proud to launch at such a venue - but also humble of all the work we’ve got aheads of us.
Will blog when we launch our preview site…

Dan Gillmor launches

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

Bayosphere. Dan Gillmor launches his grassroots media startup.

Oh, the difference a decade makes

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Bnoopy: Oh, the difference a decade makes
Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite, gives some perspective on what has changed since he co-founded Excite about ten years ago.

Cost Difference #1. The tools to develop software cost nothing now.
Cost Difference #2. Hardware costs are approaching 0.
Cost Difference #3. Start-ups have access to global labor.

Meg Hourihan - from geek to chef.

Tuesday, September 14th, 2004

Blogger co-creator Meg Hourihan is turning from geek to chef
Follow your heart - amen.

VIRK.DK

Tuesday, November 18th, 2003

myagent: Virk.dk skifter deres direktør ud [danish]
Lars has the breaking news - a change in management of the virk.dk portal only a couple of months after it was launched.

Sense Network

Tuesday, April 15th, 2003

Sense Worldwide
Interesting network concept.

Minc

Monday, April 14th, 2003

Those swedes, those swedes
Was at the opening of Minc - the Malmö Incubator - friday afternoon and evening. Once again the swedes are pulling ahead showing an almost scary professionalism in creating the right enviroment for innovation.
The Minc incubator is a very stylish 2,500 square meter renovated building in the harbour area - just at 4 minute walk away from Malmø central station.
Funded by the municipality of Malmø with 35 million swedish kr. the place offers working places plus consulting/coaching for a fee of 1,500 swedish kr. per month per person in the startup.
The VD/CEO is Anders Sjöstedt of old yalayala fame. Yalayala was involved in creating Unitedspaces which unfortunately didn’t do too well - but Anders has learned the lessons and created a magnificient place building on his experience.
Nice example of collaboration between the goverment and the private sector - is Copenhagen ever gonna wake up?
[Full coverage with 17 pictures on the mblog]

Forbes Entrepreneurship: The Psychology Of Success

Saturday, October 19th, 2002

Forbes Entrepreneurship: The Psychology Of Success

Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good people are rare

Sunday, September 15th, 2002

“Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good people are rare”.
“If you’re interested in building a business to make money, forget it. You won’t. If you’re interested in building a business to make a contribution to society, then let’s talk.”

Arthur Rock. Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the first investor in Intel and Apple.

Guy Kawasaki interviewed by San Francisco Business Times

Tuesday, August 6th, 2002

Guy Kawasaki interviewed by San Francisco Business Times
Interviewer: There’s a sense today that a few years ago all you had to do was sit down for a cup of coffee with a VC, jot down a business plan on the back of an envelope and you could walk out with a check for $30 million. Is that a myth?
Kawasaki: Well, it wasn’t that easy. You also had to boot PowerPoint, but that’s it. (laughs)
You gotta give it to the evangelist of evangelists…