The coffee shops of Mayfair: Web2.0 and venture capital

The coffee shops of Mayfair: Web2.0 and venture capital Some interesting insights on web2.0 from the likes of John Batelle (web2.0, FM), Judy Gibbons (Accel, 02, ex-MSN) and others. Worth a read.

Ireland - Entrepeneurial Hub?

Ireland - Entrepeneurial Hub? Michele spots a piece on ENN relating to Irish Startup barometer - lots of activity.....

Nick Denton: Startup kit

Nick Denton: Startup kit a good list of apps/info you need... for a startup

Bradenton Herald | 11/25/2005 | Google ignites hiring frenzy

Bradenton Herald | 11/25/2005 | Google ignites hiring frenzy This is also beginning to happen in Ireland - the big guys are all based here (favourable tax, English speaking, Well educated, Guinness), and access to top notch engineering talent is ramping up with competition !!

Sacred Cow Dung: MYTH: "VCs care about what your application looks like."

Sacred Cow Dung: MYTH: "VCs care about what your application looks like." "If you want to attact venture capital, you need to focus on (1) The Market Opportunity and (2) The Execution Strategy Your actual product is NOT mission critical (at this point)."

evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups

evhead: Ten Rules for Web Startups Evan Williams shares "10 rules for startups".... great list. I liked #2 - no rss name here

Startup - need a flash desk....

Xooglers: Room to grow A lesson to any startup "Yes, the desks were wooden doors mounted on metal sawhorses." and the Company - Google.

The Future of Web Apps - Web2.0 Event London

Carson Workshops Summit - The Future of Web Apps Looks like this will be a cracking event..... Maybe a BarCamp London on Feb 7th or 9th would top this week

Web2.0 Ireland

The Irish Web2.0 scene is beginning to develop nicely - check Web2.0 Ireland blog (James and Emmet are just getting things going - goal is to do a "techcrunch ireland") - check Web2.0 Ireland. org - non-profit, supported by Enterprise Ireland - goal is to create a community of contributors 2006 looks promising.....

John Battelle's Searchblog: VCs vs. The Platforms

John Battelle's Searchblog: VCs vs. The Platforms Interesting development .... GYM (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) competiting against VC's for deals....

Who Has Time For This?: How To NOT Write A Business Plan

Who Has Time For This?: How To NOT Write A Business Plan Some great advice from David Cowan at Bessemer...... do check out the pitch submitted from Sproutit.com also check out tips from John Zagula at Ignition

The Post Money Value: Microsoft Lesson - Rude Q&A

The Post Money Value: Microsoft Lesson - Rude Q&A Rick jogged my memory on this term "Rude Q&A" bottom line - be prepared for the ackward questions.... keep a check on all "ackward" questions, and ensure you share "answers" with your team...

Software Only: Open source and the end of traditional sales and marketing

Software Only: Open source and the end of traditional sales and marketing Open source business models are interesting - this post hits some great points. For some additional information check out this article by a SAP ventures person

The joys of Enterprise Sales....

SandHill.com | Sales & Marketing | Dealing with CIO Reality Take note "The CIO of one of the largest retail banks in the US recently told me that he has about 60 new projects under evaluation. About half of them will pass technical, functional and investment hurdles. He will then fund 4 to 6 over the next two years. That means that 25 or so projects that meet all objective criteria will not go forward."

Raising Initial Funding (west coast style)

Raising_Initial_Funding.pdf (application/pdf Object) A west coast friend (in the US) of mine emailed me this presentation a while back.... we just need to tweak this for the West coast of Ireland process... :-)

jobster blog: keeping it small

jobster blog: keeping it small Jason at Jobster articulates how they are dealing with the "keeping it small" mentality (it follows up from a Forbes article in relation to Google)

Hey Norton! - Ken Norton's blog - Leading cross-functional teams

Hey Norton! - Ken Norton's blog - Leading cross-functional teams The role of product management is not recognized in the majority of Irish Tech companies - Ken puts together a great presentation on the "art" of product management

Small Business: Invest in R&D, it's a good call - Sunday Times - Times Online

Small Business: Invest in R&D, it's a good call - Sunday Times - Times Online A good piece on R&D and Irish Technology companies. It profiles Alatto who are a company to watch - i expect one of the big guys will acquire this company.... especially when you see the likes of this mobile activity

Internal Microsoft Memo - call to action

Dave Winer - Microsoft 2005 check out email and memo...

Noam's "Founder Frustrations" blog

Noam's "Founder Frustrations" blog great piece on founder equity.... and VC investment

The Elusive Great Consumer Experience

The Elusive Great Consumer Experience From Accel Partners Insightful article from Accel Partner on consumer experience, and some of the triggers they like to see.....

Rodrigo A. Sep�lveda Schulz: RSS #018: Meet Marc Fleury, founder & CEO, Jboss Inc.

Rodrigo A. Sep�lveda Schulz: RSS #018: Meet Marc Fleury, founder & CEO, Jboss Inc. Good advice... "I asked him for his advice for aspiring entrepreneurs: “believe”, “keep at it”, “be paranoid” and “believe in yourself” because everyone is going to have an opinion different than yours."

GoogleProductDevProcess (PDF)

GoogleProductDevProcess.pdf (application/pdf Object) interesting....

The Venture Capital Squeeze

The Venture Capital Squeeze "'Bring us your startups early,' said Google's speaker at the Startup School. They're quite explicit about it: they like to acquire startups at just the point where they would do a Series A round. (The Series A round is the first round of real VC funding; it usually happens in the first year.) It is a brilliant strategy, and one that other big technology companies will no doubt try to duplicate. Unless they want to have still more of their lunch eaten by Google."

Teaching the Startup Mentality

Teaching the Startup Mentality Where do all the MBA graduates from Irish uni's go to ?