The Anatomy of a YC Pitch
The other night I had an opportunity to attend Demo Day at Y Combinator. It was a fantastic full frontal assault of entrepreneurial energy. 43 pitches, 2 min each back to back for well over 2 hours. It was clear from the outset that these teams were trained to give a certain kind of pitch with their allotted time. For those who didn’t get the chance to attend, I thought a peek into the anatomy of a Demo Day pitch might be helpful or at least entertaining.
Money 101: 40 Financial Lectures to Prepare You for the Real World
February 3rd, 2011 You may have taken accounting or finite math in your college, but most college students graduate with very little practical knowledge of finance in the real world. How can you brush up on what you need to know to survive? Take some time to watch these financial lectures. General
Business canvas examples
The “Business Model Generation” methodology is an essential aid to all business owners and consultants, who want to document, communicate and brainstorm businesses models in a succinct manner. The book “Business Model Generation” by Alexander Osterwalder & Yvess Pigneur provides great examples of how to document business models, along with methods to brainstorm innovative changes in business models for existing businesses. If you like visual aids, then you are going to love the techniques described in this must have book. What struck me, biased as I am toward visual tools, is how their visual models encapsulate the linkage and dependency on the key elements of the business in one page. A simple example of how this would work for apple’s I-pod is shown below:
How to name your startup
Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually building something we can put in front of users. Here are 3 steps I would take if I was naming a new startup: 1. If you can, stick to 2 syllables
5 Sites Providing Free IT Certification Training
Image Source: Flickr.com There are so many IT certifications out there; where do you start? What if the expensive study guide you buy ends up being the wrong track for you? Why don’t you start with what’s free? There’s no shortage of Websites offering courses in certifications in video or e-book form.
A Deeper Look At Blackbox’s Data On Startup Failure And Its Top Cause: Premature Scaling [Infographic]
Earlier this week, we covered Blackbox, the young company responsible for creating The Startup Genome Report, an ongoing, collaborative R&D project designed to take a comprehensive dive into what makes Silicon Valley startups successful — and not. (Read our initial coverage here.) On Tuesday, we covered the company’s launch of what it calls the Startup Genome Compass, a benchmarking tool for startups that helps founders monitor their progress in different growth categories. Since then, more than 6,000 startups have signed up to use the Compass. Along with the diagnostic tool, Blackbox also released a new research report on the major causes of startup failure, including perhaps more significantly, the primary cause of startups kicking the bucket: Premature scaling. While this was touched on in our prior coverage, we thought it might be worth elaborating on their findings, including presenting a nifty infographic created by the team over at Visual.ly.
Free Open-Source Disk Encryption - Documentation
This documentation is not guaranteed to be error-free and is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. For more information, see Disclaimers. TrueCrypt is software for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention.
Top 15 Open Source/Free Security/Hacking Tools
1. Nmap Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network discovery and security auditing.
Great Businesses Don't Start With a Plan - Anthony Tjan
by Anthony K. Tjan | 11:29 AM May 16, 2012 You want to start a business. So you need a plan, right? No.
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