Once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, when it was cool and unique to talk about new venture failure, I did an interview as part of Society of Actuaries coverage of the Blue Screen of Death and Reboot. I was looking for something else when I found it and I thought it was worth sharing on the startup …Read the Rest
Reboot
Startup Mentor: The Darden Reboot Chat – Videos
May 8, 2010
And they are here. Seven episodes due to the youtube 10 minute rule. Many thanks to Uzma for burning the midnight oil, encoding the video and solving the volume problem once and for all. Thank you Adnan for ensuring that the session gets recorded for the family (as well as agents and friends) and shipping the 1.2 gig file back …Read the Rest
Startup Guide: The startup crash course in 7 posts or less
April 16, 2010
For the last four weeks I had been thinking about putting together a basic reading guide for mentees that would help them move forward and remove me as a bottleneck. A collection of short to the point posts that introduce them to a basic framework that many of us take for granted and most of us have never seen or …Read the Rest
Startup Guide: A guide to startup failure or how not to do well in life
April 10, 2010
Inspired by a discussion by NASH, I thought it would be useful to post the original blue screen of death/Reboot thesis (the survey that preceded the book) here for a fuller discussion Ideas for a new venture start with a moment of blinding insight. Some start as accidents or unintentional mistakes, others take years of wandering effort to gel …Read the Rest
Startup Mode: Reboot goes on sale online, gets featured at CIO, the Standard, Network World or the Ides of March
April 2, 2010
What a week it has been. Last night was the first night in 7 days that I slept for 7 hours. My average naptime for the week was an astonishing 4 hours, excluding the time I spent power napping waiting for the red traffic light to change to green, on hold waiting for customers to pick up their phone and …Read the Rest
Startup Guide: The product feature grid – describing your product
April 2, 2010
We tried to put a process around describing our customer in my last post. Can we do something similar for products? The tool that I like and use regularly is the product feature grid. No rocket science just basic common sense. Here is what it looks like At the top of the grid we put in five basic elements used …Read the Rest
Startup Capital: Funding for dummies…three
April 2, 2010
We met Wilson Tan on a trade trip across China. In just over a week, thirty technology companies from the Asia Pacific region covered 3 cities and one hundred Chinese partners, trying to understand the opportunity that was China. Wilson was the President of the organizing body, (the outgoing President of Mercury interactive and on his way to take charge …Read the Rest
