Incubator - Lists Join Log In AngelList CompaniesIncubators Track SalariesValuations Help Incubator - CompanyTypes Average Valuation 6,047 Companies Company Joined Followers Signal More [Updated] The rise and fall of personal computing Thanks to Jeremy Reimer I was able to create the following view into the history of computer platforms. I added data from the smartphone industry, Apple and updated the PC industry figures with those from Gartner. Note the log scale. The same information is available as an animation in the following video (Music by Nora Tagle): This data combines several “categories” of products and is not complete in that not all mobile phone platforms are represented. We cannot consider the iPad as a “niche”. We can also look at the data through a slightly different view: market share. First, this is a “traditionalist” view of the PC market as defined by Gartner and IDC, and excluding tablets and smartphones. This view would imply that the PC market is not changing in any substantial way. Second, is a view where the iPad is added to the traditionalist view. This view is more alarming. The third view is with the addition of iPhone and Android.
If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough tech My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. I got rejected from every single one. The reason this period was so useful was that it helped me develop a really thick skin. One of the great things about looking for a job is that your “payoff” is almost always a max function (the best of all attempts), not an average.
FounderSensei The ‘Facebook Class’ Built Apps, and Fortunes Photo STANFORD, Calif. ALL right, class, here’s your homework assignment: Devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat. That was the task for some Stanford students in the fall of 2007, in what became known here as the “ Class.” No one expected what happened next. The students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook. Almost overnight, the Facebook Class fired up the careers and fortunes of more than two dozen students and teachers here. “Everything was happening so fast,” recalls Joachim De Lombaert, now 23. “I almost didn’t realize what it all meant,” he says. Neither did many of his classmates. But by teaching students to build no-frills apps, distribute them quickly and worry about perfecting them later, the Facebook Class stumbled upon what has become standard operating procedure for a new generation of entrepreneurs and investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. Start-ups once required a lot of money, time and people. Mr. He settled on Mr. Mr.
What Does it Take to be Influential? | risk·ology What does it take to be influential? Let’s start off with a little background. I’ve been thinking a lot about influence lately – mostly about how to get more of it so that I can do more good in the world. My mission here is to spread the message of risk-taking far and wide. In order to do that, of course, I have to get people to listen. Riskology.co will be six months old in December. I’ve learned a lot over the last 18 months or so about what it takes to gain influence and spread a message. During the first reader survey, a lot of people told me that they wanted to learn more about how to build a following for their cause. Right now, I’m working on my next big project. How do I get more people to listen to my important message? It’s going to be big. It’s also going to cost money (but not nearly as much as it’s worth) – this will be my flagship product. Since that’s the case, not everyone will buy it. Amazing Message Required That’s why Everett Bogue lives with less than 100 things.
, business - Idea Evaluation Checklist Got a great idea for a product or service? Use this checklist to help you evaluate the idea to determine if you should start a new business. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Princeton Creative Research has developed an excellent criteria checklist for evaluating ideas that is particularly well-suited to the entrepreneur. As you can see by the examples mentioned above, there are many methods available with which to evaluate your idea. Workshop | June 26: Building Your Brand Through Authenticity This session will teach you how to attract your ideal audience, boost your engagement and get more conversions. Register Now Gaming the system Gaming the system (also referred to as gaming the rules, bending the rules, abusing the system, cheating the system, milking the system, playing the system, or working the system) can be defined as using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired outcome.[1] According to James Rieley, the American banker, structures in companies and organizations (both explicit and implicit policies and procedures, stated goals, and mental models) drive behaviors that are detrimental to long-term organizational success and stifle competition.[2] For some,[who?] error is the essence of gaming the system, in which a gap in protocol allows for errant practices that lead to unintended results.[3] First known documented use[edit] The first known documented use of the term "gaming the system" is in 1975.[4] Examples[edit] Finance[edit] Online[edit] Child-rearing[edit] NHS dentistry[edit] Other[edit] See also[edit] Further reading[edit] References[edit]
SPI 243: How to Create Your Life Vision Plan with Michael Hyatt - The Smart Passive Income Blog Today’s episode is all about goals: setting them, achieving them, and knowing when to change them. And who better to talk about achieving great things than Michael Hyatt? Michael’s the mastermind behind so many amazing projects, including the This Is Your Life™ Podcast, Living Forward, Platform University, and an online course called 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever. That course, which I’m taking this year, is packed with incredible lessons in goal-setting and focus. In this episode, you’ll hear Michael’s expert advice for pursuing the right goals in the right way. Let’s Start 2017 Together! I’m taking Michael’s new course, 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever! If you’d like to sign up and get it before the price goes up, just click on the link below! Click here to sign up for 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever! Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining me again this week. If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post.
There's no speed limit. (The lessons that changed my life.) Whether you're a student, teacher, or parent, I think you'll appreciate this story of how one teacher can completely and permanently change someone's life in only a few lessons. I met Kimo Williams when I was 17 - the summer after I graduated high school in Chicago, a few months before I was starting Berklee College of Music. I called an ad in the paper by a recording studio, with a random question about music typesetting. When the studio owner heard I was going to Berklee, he said, “I graduated from Berklee, and taught there for a few years, too. I'll bet I can teach you two years' of theory and arranging in only a few lessons. Graduate college in two years? Excited as hell, I showed up to his studio at 8:40 the next morning, though I waited outside until 8:59 before ringing his bell. (Recently I heard him tell this same story from his perspective and said, “My doorbell rang at 8:59 one morning and I had no idea why. He opened the door. “Uh... the flat-2 chord?” “Right! P.S.
The decision-making formula elite entrepreneurs use to hack unstoppable growth - Commit Action | Skyrocket your business success If you’re an entrepreneur reading this, you have hundreds of marketing, sales and growth ideas for your business. Anytime you see someone doing something clever – be it a smart new online-marketing hack, a networking strategy or a cold-calling approach – you think to yourself: “Ooo… that could work for me too!” And somewhere, you jot that idea down (mentally) as a to-do for someday. If you’re anything other than a absolute newbie beginner, you know you’ll never have the time or energy to action ALL the ideas you’ve picked up along the way. Even so, we bet you can’t help yourself adding even more ideas to that mental list. It’s part of entrepreneurial nature to pay attention to what everyone else is doing and want to do the same. Stalking the business activities of your colleagues and competitors and wondering if you should be doing less of what you’re doing… and more of what THEY’RE doing… is the daily reality of being an entrepreneur. Call it “entrepreneurial envy”. They’re overwhelmed.
blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups. My specific experience is from three companies I have co-founded: Netscape, sold to America Online in 1998 for $4.2 billion; Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), a public software company with an approximately $1 billion market cap; and now Ning, a new, private consumer Internet company. But more generally, I've been fortunate enough to be involved in and exposed to a broad range of other startups -- maybe 40 or 50 in enough detail to know what I'm talking about -- since arriving in Silicon Valley in 1994: as a board member, as an angel investor, as an advisor, as a friend of various founders, and as a participant in various venture capital funds. Finally, much of my perspective is based on Silicon Valley and the environment that we have here -- the culture, the people, the venture capital base, and so on. However, there are many more reasons to not do a startup.