Seriousness [Startup Mind]

March 2, 2009

People think that I am a serious person and, for the most part, I am. However, most readers of this blog and most people who work with me only know one aspect of my personality: the side I choose to show them. The world of startups is based on trust: investors, employees and customers want [...]

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Blame the Boards, Not the Executives [Beyond Wall Street]

February 27, 2009

Yesterday I spent all day in Baltimore for meetings at Johns Hopkins University.  While there, I managed to sit in on a lecture by the Dean of Tuck Business School, Paul Danos, discussing his thoughts on the financial crisis. [My Notes]: Everyone has been blaming the wrong people for the current financial crisis. Media and [...]

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Saving Money (and Maybe Your Company!) Using Outsourced IT Services

February 23, 2009

I recently got to speak with the COO of Lore Systems, Laurie Freeman [Disclosure: Lore is a sponsor of this blog and I can't recommend them enough!] My questions for Laurie had to do with what value outsourced IT providers can offer in our down economy. “The Savings Potential of Outsourcing” According to Laurie, the [...]

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10 Posts on Data Mining and Information Filtering

February 21, 2009

The fastest growing entity today is information. Information is expanding ten times faster than the growth of any other manufactured or natural product on this planet [66%+ per year for many decades]. We see the expansion of information everywhere. Less visible, harder to track, but exploding the same is the expansion of knowledge. The number [...]

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Information Day Trading

February 20, 2009

Back in December, I had the opportunity to speak at the Defrag Conference alongside Dick Hardt (now at Microsoft) and Chris Shipley of DEMO. During that talk, I referred to the trend of “information day trading” across the social web on services like Twitter and FriendFeed. For many people like myself, information is rapidly becoming [...]

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Alacra Embraces Freemium Model with Pulse [Beyond Wall Street]

February 18, 2009

Sell-side analysis is dead, and Merrill Lynch is on record stating that investment research has been “Napster-ized.” In 2007, DealBook explained how Merrill Lynch planned to disallow non-clients from accessing its research and put new restrictions on the media’s access to it. Merrill replaced licensing agreements that “eroded the value of its written productâ€� with [...]

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Do Business Plans Matter? [Startup Mind]

February 17, 2009

From the Kauffman Foundation: Given all the attention paid to business plans as precursor to business start-ups, you would think that there would be strong evidence that such plans lead to better business outcomes. Somewhat surprisingly, the linkages aren’t quite so clear. New research sponsored by the US Small Business Administration (SBA) finds that the [...]

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Startup Marketing Plan: Reverse Engineer Memes

February 11, 2009

Memes are cultural units, such as ideas, values or patterns of behavior that are passed from one person to another. While the majority of memes are short-lived (examples include fads, viral videos, or even most news stories), other memes manage to snowball, living on indefinitely and frequently acting as precursors to cultural shifts or new [...]

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Startup Marketing Plan: Building a Foundation for Buzz

February 9, 2009

In my opinion, the foundation for marketing any new concept has two objectives: 1)    Create a snowball effect 2)    Create sustainability of the message (trends, jargon, memes) It is my hypothesis that the basis for accomplishing these objectives starts by connecting unstructured data and people. In the early days of marketing a new product (pre-launch), [...]

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Workstreamer Secures Funding

January 27, 2009

Regular readers of this blog (you can subscribe here) know that I have been feverishly working on my own startup, Workstreamer, for about the last 12 months. I am excited to announce that we have taken seed investment from one of the leading venture capital firms, Austin Ventures. My business partner Ben and I feel [...]

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