September 2011
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WatchHow to write a killer deck to get funded
Your presentation is one of the first steps to articulating your idea, so whether your a startup looking to raise capital, a company wanting to form partnerships or an employee trying to persuade your company to go with your ideas building a strong deck is a core skill.
I stumbled upon this clear and clean presentation on how to build a deck by Vator.tv...
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Insight: How and why AWS was built
The other day I had the pleasure of meeting Amazon CTO Werner, the man behind Amazon’s cloud service. As the father of the cloud I was curious to learn more about why and how he built AWS. Luckily he was happy to share:-)
The first insight is that Amazon built the cloud hosting service to deal with their own scaling problems. They quickly figured that if they could solve their problems,...
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How to succeed - Key learnings from Startup Genome...
In the last few years we’ve started getting data on how to build a startup. We now have quantitative data which founders can use to improve, tweak and accelerate their progress. Personally I am immensely interested in everything that can get us one step closer to success, and I think all founders should be focussed on working on their business instead of just in it.
Yesterday I met with...
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WatchHow do cyborg anthropologist see technology evolving?
Here’s Amber Case on Cyborg Anthropology and the Future of the Interface. This was one of the top talks at The Conference in Sweden. If you’re into web, trends, users and technology this is well worth the 50 minutes! Really. This woman just takes things two steps further.
Bio: Amber Case is a cyborg anthropologist and user...
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Success - first step is turning up
I went to Seedcamp week this week. As I am turning up to tons of other events over the next months. London is always summing with energy and opportunity as lots of Europe’s key investors, founders and new talent converge. Being there provides opportunity in itself as you meet so many useful business contacts.
My point is, that the first step in succeeding is simply turning up. Visibility and...
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The six weapons of influence for a launch strategy
According to Robert Caildini six weapons of influence exists. I’ve been looking at them as we’re deciding how to launch Everplaces. Here they are, in order of importance for launch strategies. As I see it anyway.
Social Proof - People will do things that they see other people are doing. So, all your friends are using it then you’re probably...
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Babyboomers - the next demographic layer in...
My mum got a kindle today. And my dad an iphone. They are totally non-techies. Is this a sign that we’ve hit the the next wave in user adoption of tablets and smartphones?
It made me ponder whether we have reached the tipping point of these two technologies. And marvel at how fast this happened. I mean, when 50-something, retired, middle class people with no technical skills or tech...
