Vía @vicentegreus un muy buen articulo de Tim Kreider en defensa de "cobrar por tu trabajo" ;-)Slaves of the Internet, Unite! - NYTimes.comAsí que cuando te digan:- eres muy bueno escribiendo, fotografiando, ilustrando ¿por qué no lo haces para mi (medio/sala/etc)? Bueno, no tenemos presupuesto, pero conseguirás mucha exposición…En artículo encontrarás un montón de razones para negarte… [...]
@paulg …The startup founders who end up richest are not the ones driven by money. The ones driven by money take the big acquisition offer that nearly every successful startup gets en route. The ones who keep going are driven by something else. They may not say so explicitly, but they're usually trying to improve the world. [...]
Being a startup entrepreneur is not for everybody and it’s not the only desirable career choice. I also know that many people have families and cost obligations that don’t allow the kinds of financial risks associated with starting a company. And for others the hours, stresses and sacrifices in personal relationships are not worth it.Interesting [...]
"share": vision, size, commitment"differ": expertise, orientation, perspective(wisdom) words: don’t run; recruit to build, not to fund; plan for the worst, hope for the best The Art of Picking a Co-founder from Guy Kawasaki The Art of Picking a Co-founder en Slide Share
Author's key views:VCs must create and structure their investment firms to add value to the startup far beyond the cash invested. The old model of just invest and join the board is not enough anymore. Rest in Peace (RIP) old VC model.The big VCs got much bigger, the mid-sized VCs died out and a large [...]
"Deep knowledge from your manager goes a long way toward motivating you…"Google's Larry Page: The most ambitious CEO in the universe
Eric Schmidt y Jonathan Rosenberg How Google Works from Eric Schmidt
blog.newhaircut.com1. If you didn’t create Google, you aren’t going toToday’s Larry Page isn’t working on a search engine and Steve Job’s counterpart isn’t working on personal computer, says Thiel, who writes about huge, singular achievements and what we can learn from them, rather than how we can copy them, to become as successful as possible. [...]
@pmarca vía @NewsReputation vía @InmaculadaUrrea… "Analysis" on coming too late vs. too soon:A thing I believe that few believe: Almost all Silicon Valley startup ideas from qualified founders = great ideas. But some are too early.Track startups over multiple decades, what you find is that most ideas do end up working. It's much more a question of [...]
Creating growth clusters: What role for local government? | McKinsey & Company…To flourish, entrepreneurial activity requires a concentration of talent, infrastructure, capital, and networks—key success factors of a start-up ecosystem……to deal with many stakeholders create the potential for bottlenecks……Policy makers cannot pick winners in such an environment. Instead, they should focus on enabling structures that can [...]