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Dan Martell | Lean product development

axel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:58:59 +0000

Dan Martell, a Canadian entrepreneur, is the co-founder of Flowtown.com. He created his first company, Spheric Technologies Inc, at 25.
Dan shares his Flowtown experience, failures and successes, and explains Lean Product Development with a focus on technology infrastructure and continuous deployment.

Jerry Kaplan | Five Skills Entrepreneurs Need

axel — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:19:26 +0000

Jerry Kaplan is a serial entrepreneur, he successively was co-founder and chairman of GO Corporation, co-founder of Onsale and co-chairman of Egghead.com. He also wrote “Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure” about his experience at GO Corporation.
In this presentation to Harvard students in 2003, Kaplan explains, with pragmatic examples, what skills a CEO should develop to succeed.

Do you see other skills needed?

Cameron Herold | Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs

axel — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:22:02 +0000

Cameron Herold has been coaching entrepreneurs around the world, for many years. Prior to that, he was VP of Corporate Development at Ubarter.com and COO at 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. And now, he started BackPocket COO to coach and mentor young, fun companies. In this speech, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish — as kids and as adults: “Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur”, says Cameron Herold.

Photo: Paula Kirman

Paul Kenny | Be a Sales Entrepreneur

axel — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:55:49 +0000

Paul Kenny, founder and sales consultant at Ocean Learning regularly helping Red Gate and Fog Creek, for example, talks at Business of Software conference in 2009. In this talk discovered on the excellent Joel on Software, Paul gives great advise to entrepreneurs on how to sale their products:

Photo by John M. P. Knox

Lenny Rachitsky | Crisis Communications for downtime

axel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:58:50 +0000

Lenny Rachitsky, software architect at Webmetrics/Neustar, explains, at the Velocity 2010 conference, how downtime can’t be avoided, like most crisis. So, the only solution is to be prepared and be ready to use crisis communication tactics.

And his slides:

Dave McClure | How to pitch a VC

axel — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:50:48 +0000

Dave McClure, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and startup investor, is currently working for Founders Fund and coordinating FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program. Dave invested in many successful startups including: Mint, SlideShare, Twilio, Bit.ly…
In this speech organized by Colette Balou from Balou PR at the Paris Innovation Bourse Incubator, Dave gives great advices on how to pitch a VC, catch investors interest and what’s important to focus on.

The books and presentations Dave mentioned:

Andrew Chen | Direct and Indirect Monetization

axel — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:35:04 +0000

Andrew Chen, founder at Startup Roots, CEO at Kickball Labs, board of directors at Inker, Innofidei describes in full details the two broad types of monetization:

Direct, where you have to pull out your credit card at the end, for e.g. Amazon
Indirect, where you typically go via intermediary, for e.g. Google

And the slides of Andrew’s presentations

Guy Kawasaki | The Art of Innovation

axel — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:45:30 +0000

Guy Kawasaki, ex-Apple Fellow at Apple Computer, ex-CEO of ACIUS, ex-founder of Fog City Software and now CEO of early-stage venture capital firm Garage Technology Ventures is also the writer of many excellent books, including The Art of the Start, available in our Startup Books page. He is here sharing great advises on innovation and world-class product creation at the BizSpark European Summit 2010.

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Part 2:

Mark Pincus | Learn to be a CEO

axel — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:03:10 +0000

Markus Pincus, founder of SupportSoft, Freeloader, Tribe and now founder and CEO of Zynga, shares with us advices on how to grow a successful company. He especially emphases on the need to always try to learn and raise our game: “If you guys want to create world-class products, it’s probably going to be 10 years of learning and flailing and one year of getting it all right.”

Sorry for the sound cuts. The microphone had some issues at Startup School in 2009.

Tony Hsieh | Create a company culture

axel — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:15:11 +0000

Tony Hsieh, serial entrepreneur and CEO of Zappos, gave this great speech at LeWeb 2009 about how they are able to “deliver happiness”: company culture.

Cover photo by Pedja PUSELJA