Category: Tech start-up – How to
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Our brains are getting smaller as we become more domesticated
A common cultural belief is that future generations will have gigantic heads to carry their ever expanding brains. The opposite seems to be true. An NPR story http://goo.gl/0l2GM covers the fact that human brains have actually been shrinking for the past 20-30 million years and our brain tod ay is a tennis ball size smaller Read more
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The “AHA! moment” myth – a great TED presentation about how innovation really happens
There is a great story in this presentation – goo.gl/iID9 on how the GPS turned to be what it is today over several years of tinkering and building a platform that later was connected to problem. The bottom line here is the following: 1. There is no such thing as the AHA! or Eureka! moment, Read more
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Presentation & demo tips – Part 3 – The Show Must Go On
Do not let technology get in the way the presentation. For the life of me, i am continuously amazed as to how many precious minutes are wasted before and in the middle of presentations because of technical challenges. Laptop is not booting, projector is not working, projector is not syncing with laptop (extra points for Read more
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Presentation& demo tips – part 2- Warming up
The Opening – between ice and cheese The presentation does not start at slide #1 and end at the 20th slide. People often miss on a great opportunity by playing with the projector/laptop/screen/lights in the room instead of using the time before the presentation to talk to those who already in the room/ on the Read more
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Tips for better presentations/demos – Part 1 – Why are we here again?
Talk about presentations these days and pretty fast the conversation is bound to get to the power point complaining phase. To me this shows a problem in the way people think about presentations and meetings in general, we focus on the means and not on the goals. Power Point is one of many means to Read more
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It’s not the idea, it’s you (or them) that’s the problem
Young entrepreneurs often confuse investment with validation. This leads to a lot of frustration towards investors passing on what seems like the most promising opportunities (especially if the opportunity is yours..). From the investor’s perspective though, investment is an elimination game, there are a lot of good (and some bad) opportunities at any given point. Read more
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Does failing make a better entrepreneur?
Imagine you are given 10 dollars to invest by allocating them between 3 different entrepreneurs (you have to invest in all 3) who are starting a software company (which you know nothing of) and as far as you can tell the only difference between them is their track record. The first has had 1 previous Read more
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David the innovative entrepreneur vs. Goliath the large, powerful, dominant competitor
One of the most common questions an entrepreneur gets when socializing his idea or start-up is “you do know that Microsoft/Cisco/Oracle <place name of a relevant large corporation> is already looking into that field, right?” . As i often tell people, there better be other people looking to solve the same problem as there is Read more
Starting Up (and getting somewhere) 