This is a blog for all the technology entrepreneurs based in the North West of Ireland - musings about our business, companies, interests, trends and any other random thing that hits us.
A great article that addresses the issues every startup faces..... 80% Solutions early customer feedback gets you to the 100% solution quicker......
posted by fergusb @ 3/31/2005 09:29:00 AM
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jobster blog: A New Type of Internet Company? Some interesting pointers
posted by fergusb @ 3/30/2005 10:44:00 PM
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Paul Allen: Internet Entrepreneur - The Power of Angel Investing Some good tips on the due dilligence process - see this checklist
posted by fergusb @ 3/25/2005 10:15:00 PM
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Mark Fletcher, Bloglines - Startup tips Passion - because it will consume your life Cheap technologies - great time to start an Internet service. Hardware/software is getting cheaper Keep it simple - keep it simple both for users and technology Release early and often - it's really important to get things out there and incrementally improve. Your users will have better ideas about your service than you will Moonlighting limits risks - Worked nights and weekends; friends/family are the first people you should look for funds because they want to see you succeed; free services == less pressure (it's not the end of the world if your service is down for a few hours) Hire a lawyer Web services APIs are a good thing Find good help (especially sys admin) Outsource to eLance.com (you can outsource all kinds of stuff. Have contractors bid for your work) Update: Mark Fletcher (CEO Bloglines) has posted a follow up post, which also includes the presentation.
posted by fergusb @ 3/21/2005 03:29:00 AM
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Ross Mayfield's Weblog: The Entrepreneur's Sacrifice Sobering lesson.... Better go talk to the Mrs. :-)
posted by fergusb @ 3/21/2005 03:25:00 AM
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posted by fergusb @ 3/19/2005 09:44:00 PM
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A great post from a VC himself... A VC: Don't Take the Money! read the ppt
posted by fergusb @ 3/17/2005 12:36:00 PM
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A VC: The end of IT investing as we know it Thought provoking is right. Connected to a previous post
posted by fergusb @ 3/16/2005 04:28:00 PM
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posted by fergusb @ 3/16/2005 04:14:00 PM
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Joe Kraus, the founder of JotSpot and co-founder of Excite has some great nuggets in this blog spot - titled The long tail of software. Millions of Markets of Dozens. do check out the ppt as well
posted by fergusb @ 3/11/2005 02:24:00 PM
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Inisghtful article to startup life the overall jist is great - idea, people, money - which can be more often than not be success = good idea, great people, tight with spending How to Start a Startup enjoy !!
posted by fergusb @ 3/10/2005 01:54:00 PM
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"one out of every 14 people in Ireland is an entrepreneur" SiliconRepublic.com: Ireland's technology news service providing Irish tech news & analysis
posted by fergusb @ 3/09/2005 04:20:00 PM
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As always, Seth, has some interesting insights Seth's Blog: Excerpt from new book I agree, Marketing is a story......
posted by fergusb @ 3/08/2005 12:14:00 AM
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BainCapital Ventures has a great publication (pdf) on "building a great software software business" Some insights "Imagine the following hypothetical. You are the CEO of a venture-backed software company. You are flush with $30 million in cash, aggressively investing in sales, marketing and product development. Sales are growing at 50% year over year and have been for the last several years. You are feeling pretty good about the business. Right? Wrong. History shows that this business will fail time and time again. The reality is that successful software firms grow much more rapidly and do so with much less capital requirements" "Remember that software growth is viral and customer-led – ensure customer referencability. Fewer customers with higher referencability is better than more customers with lower referencability" A must read - some great recommendations at the end......
posted by fergusb @ 3/07/2005 03:24:00 PM
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An insightful piece from Sandy Hamilton on leadership - EVP at Newsgator (had the pleasure of meeting Sandy a few times over the past few months. A quote from this piece It's a leaders job to coalesce people, to have them see what is possible, as a future for themselves, as a part of an organization. And have them see, have them believe in something big and bold. Get people excited about something and really believing in it and it's amazing what will happen. People will start doing things (taking actions) that you would have never thought they would take. And, low and behold, the results start to happen.
posted by fergusb @ 3/06/2005 12:20:00 AM
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Link to an article in BusinessWeek by the Managing partner at Ignition Partners - a leading VC in the US. We've commented before on the Marketing Playbook - see here
posted by fergusb @ 3/04/2005 12:08:00 PM
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A good manifesto on Open source marketing - the challenges to do what Linux, Firefox and others are doing to the market ChangeThis :: What is Open Source Marketing? by James Cherkoff Also, check out this post by Robert Scoble at Microsoft - Viral Marketing Manifesto
posted by fergusb @ 3/03/2005 07:50:00 PM
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The WSJ has a piece on how blogs can be used to build a relationship with customers Blogs Keep Internet Customers Coming Back - WSJ.com - Enterprise Disclosure - We use a blog for our business, and it does work - try it out - sign up for Typepad, MoveableType or Blogger - there are others, but these are the main players at the moment
posted by fergusb @ 3/01/2005 06:44:00 PM
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