We’re rapidly coming up on Revenue Bootcamp on Friday. The event is almost sold out. Click here to see the agenda. Facebook is providing a $50 coupon that you can apply to advertise your product or service on it plus you can use this discount code to get $50 off the admission price: “FGK09.”
The harsh reality of the startup scene today is that revenue is the best, and maybe only, form of funding. While many conferences focus on gaining the attention of investors, we’ve put one together that focuses on generating revenue.
Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted a video of a panel of teenage entrepreneurship panel. Delightful stuff that will inspire you—and scare you too. Click here to view it. Please mark it “found useful” if you do find it useful.
Over at the American Express OPEN Forum, I posted a guest article by Bill Reichert, my colleague at Garage. He and I went on an overnight trip to the USS Nimitz, and these are the lessons he learned from the visit that one can apply to management and entrepreneurship. Click here to read it.
Tina Seelig is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), where she teaches courses on innovation and entrepreneurship. Tina earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University Medical School and has worked as a management consultant, multimedia producer, entrepreneur, and author. Her newest book is titled, What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
Question: How does making stuff out of rubber bands and paper clips over the span of a few days transfer to the reality of the long-lasting grind of innovating, marketing, and supporting products?
Click here to read the answer to this and twelve more questions. Please mark it “found useful” if you did find it useful.
Over at the American Express Open Forum I just posted this interview with Pamela Slim of Escape from Cubicle Nation. In this interview she explains how to quit your job and start a company to change the world. It’s a must-read for anyone thinking of taking the leap.
There are lots of beauty pageants out there for companies looking to raise money, but in my experience, if you want to raise money, it’s probably best not to ask for it in public. Better, tell the world what you have accomplished, not what you need. That’s the idea behind “Launch: Silicon Valley,” which Garage developed in conjunction with our friends at SVASE several years ago.
This year, “Launch: Silicon Valley” will be held June 9th at the Microsoft conference center in Mountain View. If you are interested in telling the world what you have accomplished, make sure you apply to present. The submission deadline is May 8th.
If you have a cool new product or service ready for launch by the end of May, you can apply for one of the thirty presentation slots at this year’s event. You will have the opportunity to tell your story to an audience of bloggers, press, investors, corporate execs, and trend watchers. Prizes are awarded for the best presentations, and there is lots of opportunity for schmoozing.
This is much more cost-effective than the high-end tech conferences. For more details, click here.
Posted a story about the “Art of Commercialization” over at the American Express Open Forum. Check it out if you’re working inside an organization trying to commercialize technology or outside an organization trying to get a deal done. Please mark “found useful” if you did. it’s not easy but can be done.
I’ll be doing a Reality Check booksigning in Menlo Park, California on this Wednesday, February 4th at 7:30 pm. Here is more info. Hope to see you there!
You can start a business anywhere not to mention that you should “don’t worry, be crappy.”
Celebrity endorsements don’t have to be expensive.
Buddha is in the details (see next photo).
The details.
Nothing is what it seems (see next photo).
What it is.
You need to think big.
And don’t worry, be crappy.
Do anything for your customer. (Read more about this photo.)
Things are more complex than they seem. (I searched for a San Jose Sharks doll but couldn’t find one.)
Never turn your back on your investors.
Don’t take “no” for an answer.
Don’t be subtle with your advertising.
Treat everyone like a star.
Placement is everything (world-class shopping center called Gum, right across Red Square).
Above all, you need big balls to be an entrepreneur.
Can I tell you a funny story? A guard at the Kremlin asked me what kind of lens I had on my Nikon D90. I told him it was 18-200mm, and he wouldn't allow me to take it in because it was too powerful!
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