Archive for the 'Entrepreneur' Category

Win A Free Pass To Enterprise 2.0 Conference

June 4, 2009
Written by Ameed Taylor

E20 Conference 2009It is time again for the annual Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The conference will be held 22-25 June 2009 at last years venue at the Westin Boston Waterfront.

Full Story »


Yieldex Chosen As AWS StartUp Challenge Winner

November 23, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

As further evidence that many VC’s are still a step behind market and economic trends, Yieldex was chosen as the winner of the 2008 Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge.

I am surprised that a startup that has developed a solution for managing online advertising (In the middle of a huge economic and online advertising downturn) won the challenge over companies with more pragmatic solutions such as Pixily and Knewton.

Full Story »


Steve Blank on Customer Discovery and Development

October 22, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Couple of video’s from Steve Blank’s recent session at Stanford’s excellent Technology Ventures Program about the absolute necessity for entrepreneurs (Especially Cloud Computing or Enterprise 2.0 entrepreneurs in the current economic environment) to solicit and analyze customer feedback before launching a product or service.

Full Story »


Jimmy Wales Discusses Wikimedia Monetization Plans

September 10, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Wikimedia Foundation

Jimmy Wales sat down this week with a group of Bloggers and analysts prior to his keynote address opening the 2008 SAP TechEd conference in Las Vegas and discussed a number of topics relating to Wikimedia.

Full Story »


Office 2.0 Conference Kicks Off This Week

September 4, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Office 2.0 Coference

The 2008 Office 2.0 conference officially starts today. The brainchild of Ismael Ghalimi; Office 2.0 is now in its 3rd year and has a great agenda and a Startup LaunchPad on tap for attendees. 

Full Story »


OnDemand Speed Links Aug 22 2008

August 22, 2008
Written by Ameed Taylor

Speed 100 Meter

Buyers & Vendors Enterprise 2.0 Perspectives
Bernard Lunn has composed a 2 part kickoff series on Enterprise 2.0 in Read Write Web. Part One focuses on Enterprise 2.0 from the Buyers Perspective while Part Two focuses on Enterprise 2.0 from the vendors perspective. If Enterprise 2.0 startups followed even half of Bernard’s tips they could avoid the fate (the fate of no revenue) of many of their Web 2.0 brethren.

Full Story »