If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!So why do we do startups? Is it the desire to be rich?  The ability to be the master of your own schedule. Or is it the ability to do what you want to do? To some extent it can [...]

How to smash fears–Tim Ferriss TED Talk and highlights

If you are planning to make an enterprise analytics play with your startup, read this article to know what kind of customer psyche your dealing with.

Panelists:

Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa K.V. Rao, Zuora Lisa Rutherford, TwoFish Moderated by: Chris Yeh, PBWiki

Is enterprise software is dead. Why? Traditional software players cannot take advantage of evolutions to subscription model due to fixed costs. Selling software as a good on CD model just doesn’t work anymore.

When thinking of business models ask yourself–who is going to buy this? What they [...]

Learn how to recognize emotions in others by watching “Lie to me” on Fox. Based on research by Paul Ekman, psychologist pioneering facial emotional expression.

Best way to split equity–by future work rather than current snapshot in time. Discussion of Seth Godin’s post on splitting equity.

Avoid questions with confidence and people think you are credible. They may not notice question dodging. Many will even misremember the original question!

Many successful entrepreneurs say that startups succeed because of a winning team and not necessarily a winning idea. So what makes a winning team? One of the factors is diversity. But often differences in communication styles prevent teams from taking advantage of diversity. One kind of diversity where this often happens is gender.