Peter Christianson’s resume, as he tells it, is like a who’s who of NASDAQ success stories – so when he lent his talents to new startup, Retailigence, people paid attention. Retailigence and its founder, Jeremy Geiger, are leveraging Peter’s thorough portfolio of skills: business development, revenue growth, supply chain management, operations research, statistics, management consulting, [...]
Tech startups just got a much-needed boost in processing power, with the new JOBS legislation passed in congress. The Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) initiative currently being legislated into the US economy passed by a landslide and will vastly alter the startup entrepreneurial and investment landscape. This new legislation, passed with a vote of 380-41, [...]
One of the early topics in the Founder Institute curriculum is “Startup Research”. Here is a video and slides of a Startup Research lesson to the Silicon Valley program by Adeo Ressi, Founder of the Founder Institute. The talk provides an overview of how the character of different markets affects the reality of operation, how [...]
Looks like I spend quite a bit of my time reading news and information on the Internet. Here are few good ones that I found today. Effective Minimalism in Experience Design Tara Hornor writes about the strength of Minimalism which can bring forth clarity of form; clean lines, ample white space, and how minimal graphical [...]
Those 101 days at the Winter 2010 Bay Area semester, Founder Institute was one hell of an action-packed, fast-paced learning experience. Some of the who’s who of the Startup world, who mentored us delivered some of the best sessions, which taught us a lot more than we anticipated. Thanks a million to Adeo Ressi.
With the recent growth explosion of Quora, I’m pretty sure everyone is following and being followed by lots of other people. Lots of Quora users tweeted about ‘turning off email notifications’ for new followers as there were lots of ‘followings’ happening around. This would apply to many similar services and so also for Quora. If [...]
Young, innovative graduates should seek out small startups that are doing quality work instead of working for the big 'brand' houses just to be resume worthy. Resumes really don't matter. What you learn and achieve matters a lot.
Lot of young startup folks I meet may have never raised a single $$ from a VC but believe that all VCs and Angels are evil who are after un-equitable partnerships with startups. This myth is spread around in the small startup community in India.
HashCubes look to alternative industries for ideas on how to finance their expansion. Borrowing a trick from the movie industry they plan to sell 'points' in their upcoming games entitling investors to directly share in the revenue of the games Hashcube develops.
The second season of iAccelerator is underway and will be at the IIM Ahmedabad, India. It is being held from 1st of May through September, 2009. Last date of application is April 1, 2009.