Tag Archive | "startup"
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: From Jason Cohen and others: I built this software for myself, and then it turned out a million people wanted it exactly how I originally envisioned it. I wish we had spent less time talking to prospective customers before designing interfaces and writing code. Thanks to a software patent we filed, [...]
This week I had the pleasure of visiting the first coworking space in Lille, France: CoworkingLille. CoworkingLille was started in February of 2011 (they’re brand new to the scene!) by two people looking to create and work in a more collaborative and flexible environment. They started a group of about 10 people who met regularly and then [...]
Check out the great blog post from Swissnex about our European Startup Demo Night: Imagine running shoes that vibrate when you turn left, eliminating the need for a map. Think computer-mouse that scans and instantly lets you edit in Word and Photoshop. These are just a couple of the products presented when 13 budding [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: The Startup Genome project released a report aiming at “cracking the code innovation” and identifying the patterns of successful Internet startups. Here are three salient features of the report: The Marmer Stages: the startup lifecycle is made of 6 stages of development (the report only deals with the first four stages). [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: James Slavet (Greylock Partners) explains what are the seven signs of a customer-focused CEO: Make it easy get in touch with customer service Be obsessed about details of the customer experience, even if it’s economically irrational (e.g. the experience you get whenever you un-box an Apple product) Be out on the [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: Shane Mac is the founder of Hello There (a hosted résumé page) and provides us with inspiring tips: What you think people should pay for, may be what they think should be free. While Shane intended to have users pay for videos, he then understood that most of them thought it [...]
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 6:30pm @ pariSoma Ideakick Trailer from Trevor Goss on Vimeo. WHAT IS IDEAKICK? “Startup ideas on steroids!” - Ideakick attendee Ideakick is a community that springboards budding entrepreneurial ideas and concepts. Think of Ideakick as a thinktank for your business ideas. You can pitch a business idea that you’ve been thinking [...]
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 @pariSoma 6:30pm – 8:30pm Join pariSoma and TechCentralSF as we host “60 second spots” mixer. Listen to elevator pitches, network with the startup community, and have some drinks. We’re currently looking for startups to pitch at the event – so contact us asap to secure your chance to pitch Demoing companies include: VidCaster [...]
May 6th @pariSoma Startup Weekend is a 54h crash course about Entrepreneurship! We are back in SF, for another great Weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them. Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated [...]
Cross-posted from faberNovel’s blog: A great article by Paul Stamatiou lays out a “design crash course” for startups. Here are some of the most interesting advices: Subtle is key: don’t overuse visual effects. Apply them just enough “to make it perceivable”. Get inspired: create your own repository of screenshots showing great design or UI elements, [...]
