In honor of the new ideas and busy capital trends we are seeing at Digital Hollywood this week, and before my more serious post following the conference on the current state of venture capital, a look at some famous quotes predicting our future (which has arrived):...
This week a friend handed me a torn-out page of the April 25th (2011) New Yorker magazine’s column “Shouts & Murmurs” by John Gillespie. Note that she didn’t email it to me, or post it (as I am about to do to all of you). And I...
I’ve been seeing a lot of business plans lately about companies built on the new ap platforms, or based on social media services, or with off-the-shelf software components combined to make a new product or SaaS offering. The exciting news is that these recently...
Recently I was working with my close friend, colleague and client, Oded Noy, discussing our strategic work as Mentors with early stage entrepreneurs attending L.A.’s Founders Institute http://www.founderinstitute.com/. We agreed that the initial, hidden...
Today begins a 5-part weekly series, posted each weekend, on strategies and tactics for raising capital, from preparation through presentation. • Preparing to raise investment capital, part 1 of 5: How much, from whom and when? • Preparing to raise investment capital,...
