Like thousands of sites around the country and world, my blog and my coworking company website (Cospace) are going dark here in about 2 hours. It’s a very small gesture to a very large problem — government interference with free enterprise. Stand up for free enterprise by watching this short video, get informed and express [...]
If you don’t think things are changing – FAST! – in education take a look at TeamTreehouse, Skillshare, OpenStudy, and a host of other social-infused education startups. We have a couple brewing ourselves at Cospace that you’ll see more of 2012. It makes you wonder what higher education is thinking (or not rethinking) right now: “Many [...]
This is such a powerful story from Cameron Herold, a lifelong entrepreneur from a family of entrepreneurs. Regardless of what you do for a living (and we’re all different from head to toe), stop trying to fit your round self into that square peg. Figure out what motivates you, what you’re made of, what you [...]
Happy New Year! Please let me know if you need help building your business, product, or community. Cheers! James @GroupCharger @Cospace
Been busy all summer @CapitalFactory building our company @GroupCharger Inc and products like @AlumniCharger and (soon) @CampaignCharger. Also, I’ve continued to speak and publish about lean business building @Worksody and @Cospace.
Over the weekend, I came across the following video from the 2011 Conference on Entrepreneurship. On it, Greg Sands of Sutter Hill Ventures speaks at length with Matthew Monahan of Inflection and Terry Austin of Guardian Analytics. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UElfyu4n6mQ] Besides a rich dialog in and around lean product development, startups, Series A, B, and C financing [...]
(actually, just Julian Smith’s character) Run! That is, unless a) you really don’t like waffles, or b) you really don’t mind squabbling over equity.
My business partner, Kirtus Dixon, and I have launched our own unique approach to startups and building businesses. It’s called Worksody (Worksody.com) and it is focused on solving the #1 problem of entrepreneurs: running out of resources before achieving cash flows, growth and sustainability. Worksody combines the efficiency of lean development professed by Eric Ries, [...]
Let me be Captain Obvious for a moment and predict that the word-of-the-night in tonight’s State of the Union address will be “jobs”. Duh! Great. Got it. Now…where the jobs (good jobs, preferably) come from is another conversation. We’re not going to bring back manufacturing on a grand scale anytime soon unless the government starts [...]
“Lean on me” is more than a great song, it’s my own realization that lean product development / lean startups / customer development is the only way to build great software and great companies today. Some upfront disclosure:
