Pitch2us: Open Source Software for Incubators and Investors

Blog on July 14th, 2011 No Comments

We have been working on a simple Ruby on Rails application to allow incoming founders to pitch to us and our friends at Innovation Bay. Its a bit of a side project for us but we have a working, simple version that we thought other incubators and investors might find quite useful. So here it is. [...]

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The many ‘ands’ of a startup founder

Blog on February 7th, 2011 1 Comment

As founders ourselves and working with hundreds of other entrepreneurs, we’ve found there are a lot of conflicting skills, principles and characteristics that it helps to have. Here are a few, add your own. Big vision and brutal focus. Deep empathy and benevolent dictatorship. Daily flexibility and arrogant stubbornness. Unending patience and constant change. Respect of [...]

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Developer Founders Have to Be Salespeople

Blog on July 8th, 2010 7 Comments

A short story about the difference between belief and experience to encourage developers to get out of their comfy chairs and go and talk to your customers. At Lean Startup Circle Sydney, a number of the people were concerned about having to go talk to customers as a part of Customer Discover and Customer Development. [...]

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Focus Workshop – April 28, 2010

Blog on March 5th, 2010 No Comments

UPDATE: The March Workshop is sold out, so here is the April Web Focus Workshop registration details.

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Teaching Kids to be Entrepeneurs

Blog on September 24th, 2009 No Comments

Entrepreneurs think differently. Entrepreneurs build stuff in their obsessive daily quest to find value. They invent things, create companies, generate jobs. I love it, not only because it is good for our world to have lots of people thinking this way, but because it is an excellent attitude to life where anything is possible. It [...]

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