Posted: January 3rd, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Education, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital | Tags: Articles, Education, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital | No Comments »
This is very helpful for my New Venture Project timeline.
Quick summary:
- Trying to raise money too late
- Trying to raise money too early
- Lacking a realistic assessment of the companys’ value
- Not building enough substance before approaching investors
- Not splitting the message into smaller chunks
- Preparing poor pitch material
- Pitching to the wrong investors
- Not pitching at all
- Getting too greedy
- Not willing to share risk
Read the whole post at Arctic Startup via 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Often Make When Raising Capital.
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Venture Capital | Tags: Venture Capital | No Comments »
January update 2010. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
= A must see.
= A firm dedicated mostly in early stage companies.
= Firm that invested in any startup in the last 3 months (from September 09). You can click the icon to see the news related to the investment.
= Firm that received fund or selected to participate or manage a province venture capital fund in the last 2 months. You can click the icon to see the news.
= Firm that sold or IPO a company in the last 3 months (from September 09).
VC firms only
Posted: January 2nd, 2010 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Food for thoughts, Framework | Tags: Food for thoughts, Fun, Interesting, Internet | No Comments »
Very very interesting way to see history, politics and graphics.
These guys are great in doing info visual stuff.
http://www.blog.biggerpicture.dk/our-history-visualized/
Posted: December 29th, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Startups, Web 2.0 | Tags: Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Interesting, Market, Productivity, Startups, Tools | 1 Comment »
Spudaroo.com
Spudaroo.com is a website that allows people to pay 3rd parties to create website documents, business plan, blog content, slide presentation, and even resume for lazy people. This is a Canadian startup and I wonder how effective is to outsource this type of work to others. I can’t imagine someone who doesn’t know me to write up my resume. Even worse, it is not a great idea to ask someone else to write a business plan for you if that other person doesn’t know the business or the industry at all.
Lastly, I think the name is really hard to spell and search on Google. Though, it is creative.
Posted: December 27th, 2009 | Author: Chim | Filed under: Entrepreneurship, Food for thoughts, Tools, Web 2.0 | Tags: Startups, Tools, Useful, Web | No Comments »
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 imagine that you can search for domain names with prefix and suffix easily and Nomaine can provide that type of domain name search. I will use this tool and some others (Google Insight for Search) for domain name registration.
http://nomaine.com/
