with more than half achieving more than one round of funding. Analysis by Semico Research Corp. on semiconductor startups noted that funding jumped 190% between 2016 and 2017 and investment dollars have been increasing steadily ever since. For those with bright ideas, there’s a bright future ...
Visualize an alternative, crappy version of your life often.No job or crappy job, sleeping outside, annoying co-workers, unreasonable boss, no one listens to your ideas, and you can't improve things. Perspective is helpful. Get at least 1 great, consistent adviser.2 average advisers ≠ 1 ...
For the rest of this essay I'll talk about tricks for coming up with startup ideas on demand. **Although empirically[经验主义的] you're better off using the organic strategy, you could succeed this way. **You just have to be more disciplined. When you use the organic method, you don...
Allocate some amount of your time (but definitely <5%) to building deeper relationships with these firms over the course of 1–2 years — and specifically with the person at that firm who would be sponsoring the investment. This will allow you the opportunity to really assess whether they wou...
ABOUT US The Faktory fund is a privateEarly-stage Investment Fundfounded by Pierre L’Hoest, the former CEO and founder of EVS Broadcast Equipment (EVS:BB), and Simon Alexandre. The Faktory invests instartupsdeveloping a disruptivetechnologythat enables new products to take worldwideleadershipin ...
This book is a look into several cases researched by Guillebeau of entrepreneurs who built a successful business with a modest investment, typically less than $100. An easy-to-read guide to building a startup out of nothing, “The $100 Startup” is a testament to the power of a great ...
Chris Guillebeau is perhaps best known for his travels as he has visited every single country in the world. In order to do so, he needed to come up with ideas and ways to make money that no one else would consider. His dedication allowed him to travel the entire world where others stru...
ARM is having a bit of a moment by improving the performance-per-watt of many computing platforms, but some other ideas need to come to the forefront to make any big pushes in this area. This startup called Flow Computing claims it can improve modern CPUs by a significant amount with a...
Chicago’s numbers are routinely superior, with 81 percent of its startups producing between three and 10 percent yield on an initial investment. Now wonder VCs love Chicago. And as we have previously noted: While startup resources in Chicago were scarce a decade ago, things have changed ...
a startup. The writers would have to invent something for it to do. But coming up with good startup ideas is hard. It's not something you can do for the asking. So (unless they got amazingly lucky) the writers would come up with an idea that sounded plausible, but was actually bad...