Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Start up ideas.

Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund

The interesting point is that almost all of these area are big business bread and butter. I am wondering they are looking at huge market and growth potential.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Four reason for start up

Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed) - Bill Taylor
Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed)

Four reason for start up

Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed) - Bill Taylor
Four Reasons Most Startups Fail (And How Yours Can Succeed)

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top

Michael Jordan's 10 Secrets To Reaching the Top
Michael Jordan's 10 Success Secrets

Reid Hoffman, Missed him till date

Silicon Valley's biggest social networker - Los Angeles Times
Reid Hoffman's vision of the Web as a means to connect people, not just computers, has shaped his role in some of its most successful ventures.

Monday, July 07, 2008

What Google Did.

Christine: Susan Wojcicki on the Secrets of Google's Success
# Build a great product that users love
# Think big
# Solve an important problem
# Rally the company around a vision, and be focused on doing one thing well (and this is easier for small companies)
# Hire the best people you can
# Question accepted practices, and invent the right ones for you; try new things quickly and learn from the results
# Base decisions on data, and wait for the information you need to do the right thing
# Make decisions for the long term

Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Zakariah from from Wilson - Post American World

A VC: The Post American World
1) The next 10-20 years will witness the rise of much of the rest of the world, specifically China, India, Brazil, Russia and smaller but important developing countries like Turkey and South Africa. By 2025, China will be the second most important country in the world and India may well be third.

2) Western and Eastern cultures will be combined in many ways. China will be westernized and modernized, but in its own Chinese way. Same with India and every other important eastern culture. And modernization is not westernization, although they are related developments.

3) Many developing countries will not move immediately from totalitarian regimes to democracies, in fact most will move to a middle ground, much like what exists in China today. There are benefits to centrally planned economies. When China wants to knock down a town and build a city, it does it. There is a lot of power in China's model and many will emulate it given its success.

4) Eventually, developing countries and the developed world will move to democracy, but it won't happen quickly and it won't always happen easily. This includes China.

5) America is likely to remain the biggest economy and the most powerful country in the world for some time to come, but it will continue to lose power on a relative basis. And it will need to adopt new tactics and strategies to ensure it's economy and national security remain intact. It cannot continue to go it alone. That strategy, the Bush doctrine, has failed badly and given America's weakening hand, it should be put to rest for good.

6) America is still supreme in three important, possibly the most important, areas; higher education, diversity and demographics, and creativity and ideas. These three pillars are interrelated and depend entirely on each other. Lose one and you'll eventually lose them all.