Monday, November 5, 2012Izzy Azeri - Co-Founder, Stackdriver
You are starting a new software company and you need to put
together a business plan. Part of that plan is a budget, and most of the
near-term expenses in that budget are...
Thursday, November 1, 2012Nick Petri - Market Research Analyst, OpenView Venture Partners
With Windows 8’s official release last week, many were shocked by the degree to which the new operating system departed from many longstanding Windows conventions...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012Larry Kim - Founder and CTO, WordStream
On the heels of Google’s “disappointing” earnings announcement last
Friday – they generated a whopping $10.8 billion in advertising revenues
in Q3 2012, up 5% from...
Friday, October 26, 2012Dave Broadwin - Partner, Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag
I can’t say how often I have been called the first time an entrepreneur
has to fire someone. BTW, I get that call from seasoned execs as well.
Nobody likes to do it and...
Friday, October 26, 2012Lee Hower - Partner and Co-Founder, NextView Ventures
The VC industry (both the GP part and the LP part) pays attention to the
sector’s returns, but the broader tech ecosystem only occasionally
tunes in. Typically it’s...
Thursday, October 18, 2012Matt Douglas - Founder and CEO, Punchbowl.com
As anyone who has started a company will tell you,
the people you hire into your company are *critical* to the long-term
success of the business. The employees set the tone and vibe...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012Bilal Zuberi - Principal, General Catalyst
I attended the annual Startup Bootcamp
at MIT yesterday. It was the best thing I could possibly have done on
the Columbus Day holiday. Kudos to the amazing group of...
Wednesday, October 10, 2012Michael Greeley - General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners
The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
and Thomson Reuters released today the 3Q12 VC fundraising data, which
is a report I eagerly await as it is a barometer of...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012Rob Go - Co-Founder and Partner, NextView Ventures
I was spending some time with an MIT senior who is very involved with
the startup community and has spent some time working at venture funded
companies. We were...
One of the biggest lessons we’ve learned within the world of pricing is
that even though your price remains the lever that has the highest
impact on your revenue, the subject is one...
