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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Guide To Uncovering Awesome Startup Ideas

InfoChachkie

In this 8-minute video excerpt from his recent talk, Seth describes the practical, hands-on methodology that he uses on a day-to-day basis to identify and vet his entrepreneurial ideas. As I note in Spilling The Beans , the basic ideas upon which startups are founded are worth nothing. " Ten Step Idea Evaluation Worksheet.

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10 Step Checklist To Rank Your Startup Ideas

InfoChachkie

As Mr. Johnson points out, big ideas generally result from the collision of many small hunches. In isolation, a particular hunch may be worthless, but when combined with other ideas, at the right time, the result can be a game-changing innovation. Modern-day entrepreneurs use Evernote, Google Keep, etc. Chaos By Design .

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. By definition?—?I’m The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. contextual text ads (e.g. So did the media.

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

In preliminary tests, we experimented with more requests per pipeline but doing so caused socket write buffer overflows. The wrk tool was later enhanced to allow larger write buffers, but we ultimately decided to retain a 16 requests per pipeline test configuration. Take a look at the list of test ideas we have collected to date.

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7 Tips To Raise Your Entrepreneur Instincts In School

Startup Professionals Musings

While we all know a few good entrepreneurs who dropped out of school, the Internet is full of stories on many more who capitalized on at least four years of college, including Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Chad Hurley of YouTube and Bob Parsons of GoDaddy. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

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8 Ways Blogging Can Supercharge Your Business Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I recommend that every business publish a website and start a blog even before they have a product to sell, enabling the following benefits: Get Google to work for you in highlighting your site. Market your ideas and expertise early for customer feedback. Hone your writing style for all communication.