Keep an eye on the basics and the boring stuff even though movies about businesses turn it in to a montage. A couple of comments made recently drove home the point that the "boring stuff" is where an entrepreneur should spend his or her time. The first comment was made by lean startup guru Eric R
Read Full StoryBill Liao is a techie entreneur who made his first million by changing his language. And not PHP, Javascript or some other computer language. He did it by changing plain old English (or maybe plain old Mandarin, because he’s bilingual). Liao (@liaonet), successful entrepreneur, co-founder of
Read Full StoryIt all seems to make sense until the rubber hits the road and you decide you are not happy with something. Then, all of a sudden, your lean start begins to take on a bit of a pudgy appearance. So, even as a devotee and often day-job practitioner of the lean espoused by Eric Ries (@ericries), ther
Read Full StoryNot long after writing up the Esther Dyson (@edyson) talk (part 1 here and part 2 here), I came across an article in Slate about an app maker that wants to charge people for not going to the gym. It's probably innovative, but will it work? But first a Dyson recap: In her talk, Dyson
Read Full StoryPart I of this article can be found here. Still suffering from jetlag, Dyson kept her talk short and threw the floor open to questions. There were plenty about health and healthcare, even though Dyson dropped a couple of hints about wanting to talk more about space and top-level domain names.
Read Full StoryIt’s not often a cosmonaut/venture capitalist/writer/net visionary comes to town. You would normally need three or four speakers to cover that range of experience. But Esther Dyson’s (@edyson) resumé includes that and more. An active investor, she is also on the boards of 11 companies. Her p
Read Full StoryWearing my little cap as PRO for the Eastern Chapter of the MBA Association of Ireland, I took some shots of Hugo MacNeill, MD Ireland of Goldman Sachs, at a recent event. They were published in the December 2011 issue of Business & Finance (paywall). A scan of the photo spread is below. Clic
Read Full StoryTechnical people can have great solutions. But getting wrapped in technology may blind them to customers' needs, according to Gary Leyden, director at the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Dublin. "They can lock themselves away and code and code and code," he said. After all that work, t
Read Full StoryI remember when I first moved to the States from the recession-blessed Ireland of the late 80s. On my first Sunday there, I went out to buy the paper, the Boston Sunday Globe. Chuckling to myself, I walked back because the newspaper was in a carrier bag. And it was huge! Single sections — jobs,
Read Full Story"I don't believe in age," James Whelton, entrepreneur and Coder Dojo co-founder said. Encouraging words to people like me: aspiring entrepreneurs more than twice his age. Then Whelton, 19, and founder of his own company Disruptive Developments (@disruptivedev), goes and ruins it all by saying h
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Although it’s an excuse to use a goofy puppet-movie scene, this article is a good reminder that entrepreneurs should keep their eyes on the basics
01.21.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Management | John P. Muldoon
Bill Liao is a techie entreneur who made his first million by changing his language. And not PHP, Javascript or some other computer language. He did it by changing plain old English (or maybe plain old Mandarin, because he’s bilingual). Liao (@liaonet), successful entrepreneur, co-founder of Xing, author of Stone Soup, Special Diplomatic envoy for [...]
01.17.12 | Entrepreneurship, Fun stuff, Personal Effectiveness, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
Lean startup guru Eric Ries says if you are not embarrassed by your version 1 then you have spent too much time on it. But what is the threshold for spending extra time on it when it screams out at you in all its full awfulness?
01.15.12 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
It is probably an innovative way to price health clubs, but will it work?
01.7.12 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Social Media, Strategy, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Part I of this article can be found here. Still suffering from jetlag, Dyson kept her talk short and threw the floor open to questions. There were plenty about health and healthcare, even though Dyson dropped a couple of hints about wanting to talk more about space and top-level domain names. She was a former [...]
01.1.12 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Serial investor Esther Dyson tells of the difference between investing in health and healthcare, and of some of the changes she sees coming.
12.31.11 | Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology | John P. Muldoon
Wearing my little cap as PRO for the Eastern Chapter of the MBA Association of Ireland, I took some shots of Hugo MacNeill, MD Ireland of Goldman Sachs, at a recent event. They were published in the December 2011 issue of Business & Finance (paywall). A scan of the photo spread is below. Click it [...]
12.7.11 | Media | John P. Muldoon
Startups are urged to go lean — even in business planning. The NDRC’s Gary Leyden recommends using the one-page Business Model Canvas.
11.30.11 | Entrepreneurship | John P. Muldoon
A panel of journalists at the Dublin Web Summit discusses the future of news. While papers are in trouble, journalism can thrive elsewhere.
11.27.11 | Innovation, Media, Social Media | John P. Muldoon
“I don’t believe in age,” James Whelton, entrepreneur and Coder Dojo co-founder said. Encouraging words to people like me: aspiring entrepreneurs more than twice his age. Then Whelton, 19, and founder of his own company Disruptive Developments (@disruptivedev), goes and ruins it all by saying he was talking about kids even younger than himself. The [...]
11.23.11 | Entrepreneurship, Strategy | John P. Muldoon
