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If I were a Founder - Hazard Lights
http://hazard.typepad.com/hazard-lights/2014/03/if-i-were-a-founder.html
Random thoughts that attempt to shed light into the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship from Chip Hazard, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. Laquo; SXSW 2014 Takeaways. Getting the Co-Founder Decision Right ». If I were a Founder. Inspired by a tweet stream of consciousness by Danielle Morrill, the Founder of Mattermark, on what she would do if she was a VC, a jotted down a few notes on what I would do if I was a founder. These first went out as tweets. Our company colors would be ...
mitchlasky.biz
Should Venture Capital Fund Games Companies? | BizPunk | Mitch Lasky is a Venture Capitalist at Benchmark, Former Entrepreneur, Video Game OG, and Footie Fanatic
http://mitchlasky.biz/should-venture-capital-fund-games-companies
BizPunk Mitch Lasky's blog. June 13, 2013. Should Venture Capital Fund Games Companies? Kim-Mai Cutler wrote an interesting piece in Techcrunch. All Games Companies Are Not Alike. It is easy to see why this happens. A good free-to-play game developer can generate revenues and profits early in its company life-cycle that would make a SaaS investor drool. If you can convince yourself that the company with a big hit has attributes which nudge it into that prized second category, it can be hard to re...Devel...
cdixon.org
Software eats software development | cdixon blog
http://cdixon.org/2014/04/13/software-eats-software-development
Software eats software development. Software is eating the world, and doing so using smaller and smaller teams. WhatsApp was able to disrupt the global SMS industry with only a few dozen engineers. Small teams can have a big impact because software development (and deployment) has improved dramatically over the past decade. Some improvements include:. Special-purpose tools for non-programmers. These tools let non-programmers create software in certain pre-defined categories, thereby lowering costs and re...
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