Archive for the ‘Entrepreneurship’ Category

SpinVox: Do just one thing but do it right

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

SpinVox, founded in 2003, is a pioneer in delivering speech-to-text applications. SpinVox claims it has agreements with twelve telcos, to provide a system to translate voice mail messages into SMS or emails. These days SpinVox has been in the news because it just secured $100 Million financing from Goldman Sachs, ...

Myths of Entrepreneurship

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

This is a guest post on Guy Kawasaki's blog from Scott Shane, professor of enterpreneurship, author of The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live Below are Scott Shane's top ten myths and the realities behind: " It takes a lot of money to finance a new ...

Entrepreneurship 2.0

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Thanks to Internet, entrepreneurship is getting much easier and less risky than ever. In the past, to create a start-up, the first steps were to put the team together, gather an initial investment, work on a prototype, test the market, and sell your vision to seed or venture capital, to fund your growth. Now, more entrepreneurs ...