Sunday, February 03, 2013

Excellent blog for start-up entrepreneurs: ForEntrepreneurs

For Entrepreneurs is a blog for startups and entrepreneurs, written by David Skok, a five time serial entrepreneur turned VC (now at Matrix. Partners). It aims to address the key issues entrepreneurs will face in getting started, getting funded, and building a successful company. Although applicable to most startups, there is strong focus on SaaS businesses, and building a sales and marketing machine. You can find the website here.

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Tech brew

Are you interested in business and technology? Do you want to know more about technology in Belgium? There is a lot of great tech happening in Belgium, but it's not easy to find. Information is spread across multiple sites and languages, making it a challenge to know what is really going on. TechBrew.be makes the information more accessible through a podcast and our website.

http://techbrew.be/

Enjoy!

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Alex Osterwalder meets Steve Blank

Business Model Generation is about people who strive to defy outmoded business models. They are visionaries, game changers, and challengers who want to design tomorrow's enterprises. To succeed on this journey they will require new tools, such as the Business Model Canvas and Steve Blank's Customer Development. In this post, Alexander Osterwalder outlines how they fit together.

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Thursday, February 24, 2011

How great entrepreneurs think

What distinguishes great entrepreneurs? Discussions of entrepreneurial psychology typically focus on creativity, tolerance for risk, and the desire for achievement—enviable traits that, unfortunately, are not very teachable. So Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, set out to determine how expert entrepreneurs think, with the goal of transferring that knowledge to aspiring founders. Read the next article: How great entrepreneurs think - Inc.com

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

101 things...

"101 things I wish somebody had told me sooner" is a great array of advice for anybody starting anything, edited by Walter De Brouwer. Go check the website!

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Should I become an entrepreneur?

When to become an entrepreneur is a common quandary for many. Jeffrey Bussgang proposes a few questions people should be asking themselves before starting. If you are thinking about starting your own venture, this HBR Blog post is a great read.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

10 business models that rocked 2010

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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship

This is a guest post by Scott Shane on Guy Kawasaki's blog. Many entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about entrepreneurship, so here are ten of the most common and the realities that bust them. Scott Shane is the A. Malachi Mixon Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Case Western Reserve University. A true eye opener.

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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Creating start-up success

In this blogpost,  Alexander Osterwalder and Steve Blank combine their most useful insights on leveraging succes in start-ups into a smart slide share presentation. Below, we embedded the slide share presentation. Enjoy!

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Investor blogs

• Both sides of the table by Mark Suster
  

  • This a great post about sales people in startups.
  • Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies.

• Paul Graham

  • Paul Graham is an entrepreneur, essayist, programmer, and investor. He wrote bunch of insightful articles on entrepreneurship and investing.

• localglobe.blogspot.com , by Saul Klein

  • Saul Klein is a Partner at Index Ventures and former vice president of Skype.

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Friday, October 22, 2010

Entrepreneur blogs

• The danger of the entrepreneurial , on harvard business review.

• What entrepreneurship is really like, by Paul Graham

• Startup Lessons Learned, by Eric Ries

• Business model alchemist, by Alexander Osterwalder

  • author of the business model generation. Need we say more? Cutting edge topics on business model generation.

• Steve Blank

  • In this post, Steve Blank explains that no business plan survives first contact with the customer. Entrepreneurship is not business planning.

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