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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

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Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Funny, that.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

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There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. Importantly we also discussed: should startups raise small amounts of money or large? Check it out.

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How to Deliver More Software Projects On Time

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We live in an era of more product-dominant companies where a perfection complex for features and design delay business realities of shipping products. When you realize that company building is a marathon and not a sprint you’ll start to appreciate not making every weekend a workathon in the name of hitting deadlines.

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