Posts Tagged ‘ start-up ’

Denim Therapy – Simply Brilliant

If you’ve ever worn through your favorite pair of jeans and had to part ways because of the “damaged” relationship then you need therapy – Denim Therapy that is. It’s a brilliant concept that fills a huge need/gap/service in the consumer services space.  I actually used Denim Therapy recently to repair one of my favorite [ READ MORE ]

Taking your medicine….frogs style – Fast Company interpretation

One of our favorite zines Fast Company posted a nice little article on taking your medicine first everyday. While it’s a different interpretation using a frog analogy the core theme is the same. Do what’s most annoying or difficult first in the day and then rest of your day can only get better. Try it. [ READ MORE ]

Foursquare Rocks

Foursquare is the darling child of social media check-ins.  It’s not exactly clear why they are, because there are a lot of other well positioned players in the space, but none of them have gathered the buzz, momentum and fun that these guys have.  Good for @dens and the rest of them! But what’s cool about [ READ MORE ]

Taking your medicine

Earlier this week I met with a great group of individuals about this new crazy thing they are doing.  They just wanted guidance on their strategy and I was lucky enough to be asked to help them.  As we chatted more and more we kept gravitating to the same topics and ignoring this other [ READ MORE ]

Everyone has their place

Everyone has their place in the financing ecosystem of start ups. VC models thrive on certain assumptions and everyone contributes different things, each with some additional risks that other players don’t have and upside that others don’t have as well. Angel investors are a unique bunch. Typically, they have some personal money and they want to [ READ MORE ]

The Ulitimate Startup?

Been thinking about start-ups that get started and stuck on the blade and it occurred to me that a lot of us have been sitting on the ultimate start up and not even realizing it. Babies, are no joke — the ultimate start-up that refuses to get stuck on the blade and let’s talk about [ READ MORE ]

Penny on the Highway (a sliding scale of worth)

Not all pennies are created equal and in fact, not all pennies have the same value at different times.  Depending on where in the lifecycle of the company, what once was a penny well found, actually can later become a huge distraction of little value and actually prohibiting you from moving forward. It sounds reminiscent of [ READ MORE ]

Step right up, Step right this way!

Qualcomm made an interesting announcement this week, announcing to the world ‘BREW MP‘ – an update to their BREW platform that is currently one of the major mobile application operating systems out there (Verizon, US Cellular, Alltel, Metro PCS are the big carriers in the US who are BREW carriers).  BREW is a technology that [ READ MORE ]