It is so hard to come up with a nice name for startup or new blog when most of the basic names are all registered. Then, most people come up with strange or too creative names to their website which are hard to search. But … Read More →
Category Archives: Tools
Bookhu – Top books for women and men
Bookhu is a book review website that shows if a book is read more by men or women. It is a food for thought website. It shows if I have more male or female preference. In my searches, most of my books related to entrepreneurship, … Read More →
Penzu, an inverted Blog system
This is strange. A Canadian company created a blog system that provides private blog posts as a default choice. This means that users of this blog system will create their blog post privately and not sharing to other people. This defeats the notion of blog … Read More →
Startup: Sprouter is a entrepreneur social network
Sprouter is a social network that connects entrepreneurs around the world. It is one of those website for grass-rooting campaigns for entrepreneurs to share their ideas. I’m not sure if that’s effective given that there are many social network dedicated to the same thing. Share … Read More →
Tinychat.com – Live video chatroom
Tinychat provides free video and audio chatroom for the mass. People can use this tool as a DJ room, virtual meeting presentation room or live interactive TV. I like this website because it’s free and for startups, this tool can connect our team member even … Read More →
InterClick, the “Pure-Play” Ad Network Raises $18.1 Million (ICLK)
InterClick is a company that provides traditional approach of supply chain methodology into optimization of ROI over advertising spending. I’m writing this post because I’m so impress that the market has so much appetite for advertising systems and tools and ad networks. Basically, it treats publishers and … Read More →
Stribe fast response to my previous post about its product
I am very impressed and glad by the speed that Stribe has replied to my post. A good entrepreneur should be able to react to the current dynamics of how people comment and make opinions about his product. A fast reply like that is a … Read More →
Hunch – What’s the best profession for me?
I was using Hunch this weekend to see how it works. It is a quiz guessing website. You make questions and it gives you its hunch about what the best thing is for you. I chose the What’s the best profession for me quiz. It … Read More →
How to Segment Different VC Firms?
After having to explain to my friends so many times about what a venture capital firm does, I created a simple and quick way to segment different kinds of VC firms. Basically, we can classify venture capital firms with 3 criteria: industry target, fund’s size … Read More →
Negotiation: three main variables in negotiation
There are three main variables in negotiation: time, information and power. Time is important because the lack of it can cause great damage for the person or organization. Imagine that two venture capital firms have a great interest in a startup company. They … Read More →
Negotiation: Risks
Risk is a tool in negotiation that can help you to take advantange from the other side of the table. It depends on two factors: - Circumstances - Risk attitude from the negotiator Risk can be used to ask for bold concession from your partner. … Read More →
My favorite Big Picture Calendar – Compact Calendar by David Seah
David Seah is a functional designer creating very interesting calendar such as the Compact Calendar 2009. It allows you to make a big picture plan of what the most important days are and what you have to do on those days. Check it out … Read More →
Fantastic Tool: Google News Timeline – Analysis of VC Industry Crisis
Another great tool from Google: Google News Timeline. It shows all the news that you search in a timeline! You can see the news in a more coherent way. It is much easier to build stories and check for historical patterns. Before moving to my … Read More →
Fantastic tool: Similar Images at Google Labs
This is an impressive beta tool from Google: Similar Images. As you can see, I’m searching for Sao Paulo’s images in the tool. Then, I select one of the picture to get similar images and the tool gives back a list of images … Read More →
Insights: are people looking for entrepreneurship to solve unemployment problem?
Some newspaper and some people believe that more people are looking for entrepreneurship to solve their unemployment or lay off issues, however it is not what is happening if we check Google’s Insight For Search tool. The tool allows us to see the search behaviour … Read More →
Inverting and flipping the words
This is a fun tool that flips and invert the words that you type. Take this example: I love venture capital and entrepreneurship. I also love Google too. Using this tool, I get: ˙ooʇ ǝlƃooƃ ǝʌol oslɐ ı ˙dıɥsɹnǝuǝɹdǝɹʇuǝ puɐ lɐʇıdɐɔ ǝɹnʇuǝʌ ǝʌol ı … Read More →
Ning
Ning is a kind of more evoled Yahoo or Google groups. It says that it is a new way to build your own social network site, but I see it as a normal discussion group with up-to-date web 2.0 resources and tools. Share and … Read More →
Highrise
Highrise is my new adopted contact manager and personal CRM! It is a great tool to get myself organized about personal tasks with other people and an awesome tool for keeping track of my networking activities. Share and Enjoy:
Balsamiq – highly productive prototyping tool
Balsamiq Mockups Intro Hey, I usually do not promote things (except for exceptional and high-productivity products or tools). I’ve just found out an interesting software that allows us to create a product layout in a couple of minutes. It is a software called Balsamiq and … Read More →
Pixlr.com
It is an online image editing software. If you are in somewhere with no image editor program, you can go to Pixlr.com upload your image that you want to edit and change it. The site is really quick and it comes in many languages. Also, … Read More →
Google Nexus One – the PC of smartphones?
The smartphone industry is moving to follow the same path of the personal computer (PC). Both industries have a lot of manufacturers. For example, Dell for computers and Motorola for smartphone. PC and smartphones have operating systems. For PC, the major OS is Windows and … Read More →