http://venturecreators.net/blog On Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology, Business, and everything in between. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:59:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guy Kawasaki goes deep into uncovering what really goes on inside a startup, during its first 2 years.Financial Models for Underachievers: Two Years of the Real Numbers of a Startup http://venturecreators.net/blog/2008/03/12/two-years-of-the-real-numbers-of-a-startup/ The Art of Bootstrapping, by none other than Guy Kasawaki, is full of truths as far as I see them. Absolutely recommended reading. http://venturecreators.net/blog/2008/03/12/bootstrapping/ I've decided to take a foreseeably long break from blogging, as I have no time now that I'm now neck deep into Business Development.Update: I have gone and started my own company, which is making things even worse. Expect nothing more than sporadic posts. http://venturecreators.net/blog/2007/03/08/taking-a-long-break-from-blogging/ Things change, it's inevitable.In November I took the decision to dive into a new professional challenge in Business Development/Marketing&Sales. I joined a a Barcelona-based company offering specialized consulting services in the software and technology sector.One of the most important reasons why I accepted was my task: to start developing the ... http://venturecreators.net/blog/2007/01/18/new-challenge-blogging-hiatus/ Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedin, gives us a guided tour of the Linkedin HQ in Palo Alto. It’s an excellent glimpse at pure Silicon Valley culture, well-worth spending  its 5 minutes duration.Courtesy of Loic Lemeur, at whose post you can also download the video and the sound.Update: See what the ... http://venturecreators.net/blog/2006/11/21/guided-visit-to-linkedin-hq/ Hugh MacLeod is a cartoonist and the driving force behind the brilliant gapingvoid business cards. If nothing else, a cartoonist’s mission is to cram pearls of wisdom, social critics or just downright funny stories into a single panel (or 2–4 panels depending on the medium). However, some of these pearls of wisdom come not ... http://venturecreators.net/blog/2006/11/19/blogging-according-to-hugh-macleod/ An initiative for raising awareness of the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit is being launched in France under the very catchy name of “100.000 Entrepreneurs”.  This initiative brings entreprepreneurs to schools, high schools and universities, where they give their testimony and inspire the younger generations. More info here. http://venturecreators.net/blog/2006/11/19/100000-entrepreneurs-in-france/ From the Wikipedia http://venturecreators.net/blog/2006/11/16/nikola-tesla-the-man-who-invented-the-20th-century/ According to an article published in the MIT Technology Review, 3 MIT scientists are working on a way to charge batteries without wires, using magnetic induction. This is something Nikola Tesla first theorized more than 100  years ago. Pretty neat, but the real deal-killer may be in its applications, as one commenter points out: I recall 2 earlier ... http://venturecreators.net/blog/2006/11/15/charging-batteries-without-wires/ More from A View From The Bridge Evergreen Innovation Partners's own way of quick sizing a market: Size the Opportunity - Cheat Sheet Matt McCall, an ... http://venturecreators.net/blog/2006/11/08/size-the-opportunity-cheat-sheet/