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“Lean” medical device, cleantech, telco startups
Tue, 12/06/2011 - 16:13 — expert1The Lean Startup movement is a good example of the new internet-company methodologies mentioned in my last post. I got around to reading Eric Ries’ book over Thanksgiving. Read more »
Can science-based startups learn from Web 2.0?
Wed, 11/09/2011 - 17:20 — expert1For startups developing web-focused businesses, the ecosystem has changed enormously in the last 2-3 years, almost entirely for the better. In contrast, in the world of new ventures based on hardcore science (cleantech, medical devices, biotech, etc.), as far as I can see it is more or less “business as usual”, and in some areas things have gone significantly down hill (think FDA and medical devices for example).
Being an eternal optimist, I see grounds for excitement here. It seems to me there is now a great opportunity to take some of the ecosystem improvements pioneered by the Web 2.0 folk, and adapt them to the world of science-based startups. Read more »
Using a Chromebook for a Week
Thu, 09/29/2011 - 08:22 — raazzzinApologies for the lack of posts, I’ve been heads down incubating at SRI.
Last week, on almost an 18-month basis, it was time to send in my HP laptop into warranty. I’m not sure why I continue to buy AMD based laptops considering they are plagued with over-heating issues (and I’m sure my over-use lifestyle doesn’t help). In any case, the laptop was off to warranty and so I only had my Chromebook. Read more »
Steve Blank on Reinventing the Board meeting
Wed, 06/15/2011 - 10:22 — expert1Very relevant blog by Steve Blank on Reinventing the Board meeting for startups. I think the concept we call here the "Virtual Advisory Board" is targeted at many of the issues mentioned in the blog posting, although we have been focusing on advisory boards rather than Boards of Directors.
I think there are two aspects of this post of particular relevance to the Acceleration Co-op. Read more »
Challenge Driven Enterprise - A New Business Model?
Mon, 06/13/2011 - 07:24 — InnovationeerSome of you may know about an open innovation, crowd-sourced company called InnoCentive. It was created in 2001 as a spin-out from Eli Lilly, designed to tap the expertise of crowds to enhance R&D efforts that have traditionally been limited by internal organizational boundaries. Open innovation, the use of resources other than internal to an organization, provides a more efficient path for advancing innovative ideas. Read more »
Android (and the Tab!) in the Enterprise
Thu, 05/12/2011 - 17:53 — raazzzinThis post was written as part of Samsung’s Mobile May. Please do check-out all the other guest bloggers at the Samsung Developer site. Read more »
Ad Learnings from Recipe Search
Fri, 04/29/2011 - 17:03 — raazzzinAs part of YumYum Labs, earlier this summer, we built Recipe Search (top 10 app in the Android Health category). Yesterday, I shared on a panel at AppNation, some of our ad learnings that I thought would be useful to you: Read more »
CPA Advertising on Mobile
Sat, 04/09/2011 - 14:18 — raazzzin[Below was part of a post I had written for VisionMobile, a great group of awesome mobile analysts!] Read more »
Enterprise Mobile Is Hot!
Sat, 04/09/2011 - 12:49 — raazzzinI recently gave a talk at CTIA on mobile enterprise – it was great to see the enthusiasm in the audience but also the fear that was mostly unwarranted based on horror stories of deploying and integrating with the enterprise. Mobile enterprise by definition is broad and includes everything from internal apps for employees (eg request a taxi app), point solutions (eg mobile radiology app), MDM (mobile device management), mobile security (eg remote wipe), mobile field sales/service etc solutions (eg Antenna Software) and much more… Read more »
Silicon Valley History - From Labs To Start-ups
Thu, 03/31/2011 - 14:44 — InnovationeerWhat is the origin of the well-used model for university lab ideas morphing into start-ups?
An explanation can be found by looking at the secret history of SV that began in WWII. A very informative video of a Google Tech Talk by Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and lecturer at Stanford recently crossed my digital desktop. It is a great example of the wisdom in "Understanding where we are going by learning how we got where we are today." It also describes some previously classified stories of how the 'Silicon' really got into the Valley. Read more »
