We’ve talked to a number of investor these last months and I can classify their questions into three categories: Intellectual Property Protection (IPP) Revenues and Operations Revenues is a straightforward concept and reflects market potential, market share, and business-model. Operations can also mean business-model as that clearly affects your operations, it also concerns the team, [...]
In his MBA-series (that I don’t read enough, but I may not be the target audience), Fred Wilson writes about the role of sunk costs in making future decisions. As an entrepreneur, I am constantly concerned with the cost of decisions, so I was kind of happy to find out (though I do vaguely remember [...]
Let me start by saying that it’s hard to write about what we’re doing, particularly from a non-marketing angle. Tech IT Easy is a .Org and it doesn’t feel right to use it as a commercial medium (apart from the sponsorship banner, which I value very much and which will at some point host my [...]
I asked yesterday for a more graphical and intuitive way to plan out costs for products and projects. The reason lies in an essay I co-authored several years ago with Jeremy Fein, co-founder of this blog. I forget the exact title of the thing, but its premise was that good entrepreneurial teams are composed of [...]
Just a quick shout out to all you smart people out there. For a cost analysis, I’m trying to build several alternative cost-structures, but preferably in an outliner-like format. I’ll go into what I mean in a second, but if you can think of anything, please comment or send me a mail on techiteasyblog (at) [...]
This is just a short list of challenges that I faced with my current business. Feel free to suggest other things in the comments. your relationship with the company & people you’re starting with: coming out of a position that involved reading a lot, a lot of contracts, I’m kind of particular about how to [...]
It seems strange to keep a diary as an entrepreneur, which is thought to be a career that is all-consuming. But I made the resolution to not get lost in my work, leaving enough space for inspiration and reflection, next to all the getting things done. Inspiration, aka new ideas or thinking out of the [...]
Be it Automobile , Aviation or Heavy Metal Industries, everyone felt the heat of recession but regardless IT fared better than most. In spite of worst economic meltdowns in history, acquisitions among big vendors continued to reshape the market, operating-system wars extended to mobile battlefields, microblogging became a powerful source of real-time information, and the take-up [...]
I’m always fascinated by business models, i.e. at how entrepreneurs and companies put together services in order to make money from them. I’d call it the source code of business if I hadn’t seen the other source code in Luxembourg —legal and accounting—but arguably that’s more like binary code, i.e. 99% unintelligible. Sarah Lacy writes [...]
where I write about how the process blogging and that of business are incompatible.
How and why financial and legal services are stuck in the old world.
Hey guys, I wanted to pose this question on Twitter, but couldn’t describe it in 140 characters. Basically, if I want to learn about investing, what would be the best way to go about it? I noticed, reading Business Accounting for Dummies, that accounting is a topic that is very nationally driven. Sure, there are [...]
Inspired by the Grasshopper podcast on Venture Voice. Har har, Vincent Like Unlike
I think I must be a geek because I like creating order (that doesn’t automatically mean that I’m a very orderly person, rather the opposite). One of my first priorities in my new position was to orientate myself in the “order” of things, or rather to have a good view on what the process from [...]
I hate Windows Explorer and I hate Mac OS X Finder, but what I hate even more is when applications try to replace them by moving all the files into a new, more app-friendly structure. Plenty of examples on the Mac-side, I am, not sadly, no longer an expert on Windows software. The problem with [...]
