Tweet Sharing war stories and providing hands-on experience are two reasons why the Founder Conference is different and why so many people loved it. Today I’m calling on all of you to help make the conference even better, by crowdsourcing its content. For instance: How can we improve the networking aspect of the conference, by [...]
Tweet I finally got around to uploading more videos from the Founder Conference. Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com Drew Houston, founder of Dropbox Enjoy. They both provide great insights into their experience and how they became overnight successes through hard work.
Tweet Can I pay you to delay your tweets by say, 60 seconds? Why? Because some people will pay to read your tweets before everyone else. Sixty seconds is not long, but it’s the difference between free and millions of dollars of revenue. Here’s how it works. Imagine a new premium Twitter client. It costs [...]
Tweet Last night was the Paris Founder Conference (more on that in another post, but if you can’t wait to hear about it, you can read TechCrunch France’s coverage of it here). A frequent topic of conversation came up: the misunderstood entrepreneur. When you start a startup, even your own family doesn’t understand why you [...]
Tweet This week has been very productive (and it’s only Tuesday morning): First on Monday, VentureBeat published my guest column on the winning pitch at the Founder Conference. It’s worth watching the video and reading the analysis, if you ever wondered why no one calls you back after you pitch your idea. Then this morning [...]
Tweet Possibly the most popular part of the Founder Conference this year was the live pitch feedback, a workshop run by Adeo Ressi. We actually extended its allocated time by 20 minutes because it was so popular. The rules are simple: you give your best elevator pitch, in less than 1 minute, as if you [...]
Tweet I’m posting the videos of the Founder Conference here on my blog until we revamp the Founder Conference website… By the way, if you want to be the first one to know about the next Founder Conference, there is a sign-up form on the right. Here is my favorite excerpt of the panel on [...]
Tweet I’m posting the videos of the Founder Conference here on my blog until we revamp the Founder Conference website… By the way, if you want to be the first one to know about the next Founder Conference, there is a sign-up form on the right. Should you join an incubator such as Y-Combinator, the [...]
Tweet Whenever I chat with friends who still live in Paris, working at the same corporate job often for more than 10 years, I can’t help but wonder. Is the Silicon Valley’s startup culture, despite its crazy focus on work, actually more family-friendly? It goes like this: in Paris, you work in the office until [...]
Tweet In the tradition of the Co-Founders MeetUp of Silicon Valley, the Founder Conference will feature 12 pitches from startups. If you need help to build your startup, you should apply. However, note that this is not the place to launch your startup to the press, or expect to raise money from venture capitalists. Other [...]
