The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
december 2012 by infovore
Maciej is great.
startup
funding
investment
december 2012 by infovore
Appfrica Labs | Investing in East African Innovators
july 2009 by infovore
"Appfrica Labs is an investment company and software development firm that facilitates and incubates technology entrepreneurs in East Africa. We do this by offering a physical space with a solid internet connection, servers, software and computers that allows entrepreneurs a place to develop their ideas in a constructive environment with industry professionals as mentors, outside of school. Entrepreneur projects are refined and prepped to help them secure funding and launch sustainable, profitable businesses." I met Jon who runs Appfrica at TEDGlobal last week; it's a great idea and, by the sounds of things, doing very well.
appfrica
development
business
africa
uganda
vc
venturecapital
incubator
technology
startup
july 2009 by infovore
Nostalgia - Laughing Meme
september 2008 by infovore
"You know the [dark days] when all the MBAs left, and the people who loved the Web went on building it — building meaningful, crazy, artistic cool stuff, and the ethos of the social web war born, back before that meant more then widget crazy/Facebook-tulip-bloom-madness. Yeah, that sure sucked."
web
business
downturn
boom
bust
startup
creativity
september 2008 by infovore
Product and marketing in the start-up « azeem.azhar
september 2008 by infovore
"Marketing is a strategic function about delivering customers what they want. It isn’t a jazz hands and rubber chicken and t-shirts. It is the heart of successful companies..."
azeemazhar
marketing
product
company
startup
business
september 2008 by infovore
Bandcamp
september 2008 by infovore
"Bandcamp isn’t Yet Another Place to Put Your Music. We power a site that’s yours. So instead of our logo plastered between banner ads for Sexy Singles Chat, your fans see your design, your music, your name, your URL. You retain all ownership rights, and we just hang out in the background handling the tech stuff." Via Waxy; looks really excellent, and some wonderful stat-gathering tools for bandowners.
music
web
application
publishing
distribution
band
startup
september 2008 by infovore
T=Machine » Publishers are from Mars, Developers are from Venus
september 2008 by infovore
"Over the last few years, there has been a big shift in power and success away from independent studios, and towards in-house, publisher-owned studios. This has been driven by several things, sound economic reasons, competitive reasons, and because the strong independent studios had done a good job at creating a slew of new IPs (which publishers were eager to snap up, as always). In my experience relatively few people in the games industry realise this... So, what’s next? What’s going to happen over the next 3-5 years?" Adam on the business of the games industry, and what's facing it next.
games
business
industry
economics
startup
web
development
publishing
september 2008 by infovore
Be Good
april 2008 by infovore
"...if you put those two ideas together, you get something surprising. Make something people want. Don't worry too much about making money. What you've got is a description of a charity."
paulgraham
essay
writing
business
startup
april 2008 by infovore
evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
december 2007 by infovore
"I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that." Evan Williams on product.
business
startup
strategy
product
design
innovation
december 2007 by infovore
Starting out: Creatives clued in to 'Generation C' | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph
july 2007 by infovore
"Don't take work only for the money. You get what you do, so work than makes you unhappy is not progressive." S&W in the Telegraph.
business
design
mattwebb
jackschulze
schulzeandwebb
startup
creativity
advice
july 2007 by infovore
GigaOM : » StartUps Embracing Amazon S3
july 2006 by infovore
S3’s early success makes you think that if the on-demand infrastructure can be delivered at an affordable price, the cost of setting up an online business is going to decline even further, perhaps prompting a whole cycle of new entrepreneurial activity.
amazon
s3
webservices
storage
startup
july 2006 by infovore
Rands In Repose: 1.0
april 2006 by infovore
Building companies from the ground. Really good writing.
business
startup
development
process
management
april 2006 by infovore
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