Posts tagged with entrepreneurship.

On entrepreneurship and doubt …

If you are doing something that hasn’t been done before, careful analysis will by definition highlight reasons to not proceed. Market demand can’t be validated. Experts dismiss technological assumptions. Partnership discussions stall. There is always something that causes this crisis of confidence. Harvard Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter has seen this so frequently that she coined Kanter’s Law: Everything can look like a failure in the middle. When you first formulate an idea, excitement peaks. But the more you study that idea, the more you realize the challenges that lie in front of you.

How Iteration-itis Kills Good Ideas →

by SCOTT ANTHONY at Harvard Business Review

Don’t Become an Expert →

Another great post by Jason Cohen. Thanks for keeping things real.

Not disruptive, and proud of it →

Another interesting post on entrepreneurship and value.

Angel rounds better for new startups than VC rounds →

Well said!

And Google Begat… an article in BusinessWeek about the impact google alumnis are having on innovation in Silicon Valley.
Quote: ”When people write the history of Silicon Valley 20 years from now, the true impact of Google could come more from all the things that Google people go on to do after they leave Google.”