Steve Blank Spells Out The Deadliest Startup Sins
Steve Blank, author of recently released The Startup Owner’s Manual highlights the Customer Development process, best practices, tips and instructions contained in this book. In this book, he identifies 9 deadliest sins, which startups do often commit. He spells out them to caution the fledglings, carving an entrepreneurial niche. Find the excerpts here: 1. Assuming [...]
Business Journeys Originates In The Heart
“Business journeys originated in a different place, a place we call the Heart.They were conceived not with a document but with a feeling and doing for an authentic vision. Clarity of purpose and passion ruled the day with less time spent writing about an idea and more time spent just doing it. At a business’s [...]
How Startups Should Leverage Angel List For Raising Funds
Angel List is a hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform offers a greater degree of visibility to startups that might not have access to investors, and, on the flip side, has become an important resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors.
Inventing A New Future
I am perplexed. Yes, I am. I am perturbed and perplexed by perpetually vexing problem of how to invent a new future. After years in “Cube farms” [euphemism (!) for organizations ] that discourage, stifle employee engagement and, as a result, strangle innovation, one very fine day I said “Duh! No more cribbing. Enough is [...]
Enacting ‘Inception’ In the Minds of Angels And VCs
The seeding of my dream was because of my participation in an Interactive Discussion “Experiences in Entrepreneurship in America and India” organized by Indian Angel Network, where Hemant Kanakia, board member of IAN and an active investor, shared his experiences and his understanding about Indian Startups Ecosystem viz-a-viz that of the US. He orchestrated the whole session exceptionally well, peppered with bits of his entrepreneurial and now angel investor’s vision.
Give Customers What They Want, When, Where And How They Want
“Customers can’t or shouldn’t participate much in the innovation process”. It’s a myth. Break the myth. Turn your company into a customer platform that allows customers to create their own experience and value. [Insight For Innovators]
Harnessing Value From Business Model Innovation
“When you innovate, look at the forest, not the trees — and get the overall design of your activity system right before optimizing the details.”- Raphael Amit and Christoph Zott More companies now are turning toward business model innovation as an alternative or complement to product or process innovation. A company’s business model [...]
Gray-Haired a Plus When It Comes To Entrepreneurship
Today age is no barrier to success.Experience continues to count for a great deal. Mark Pincus was 41 when he founded Zynga and Arianna Huffington was 54 when she created theHuffington Post. Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $1m in sales. He [...]
Follow Us
Witszen Channel
Categories
Recent Posts
- Steve Blank Spells Out The Deadliest Startup Sins
- Business Journeys Originates In The Heart
- How Startups Should Leverage Angel List For Raising Funds
- Inventing A New Future
- Enacting ‘Inception’ In the Minds of Angels And VCs
Archives
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011