Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Steve Case at Startup America Partnership recommend an article that list 20 blogs that entrepreneurs should follow. There is another article that should be of interest listing 20 people to follow on twitter.

Xerox technology chief Sophie Vandebroek makes a good case for encouraging young people to purse math, science, and engineering. It's mystery to me why more people don't seem to be interested in these subjects. Many professional organizations and companies have programs to attract kits to these subjects, but some how the results don't seem satisfying. Perhaps it is because people don't see the the founders of companies like Apple, Google, or Facebook as engineers. If they did, may be more people would be attracted to engineering.

In this short video Guy Kawasaki, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and co-founder of Alltop.com, gives some advice to entrepreneurs that are trying raise VC funds. I'm a bit stunned to hear that you need to have a prototype product and have been shipping product before VC's will consider funding your startup. If you are at that point, then, why do you need a VC?

Steve Banks has posted this very interesting hackers guide to Silicon Valley.

An article in the IEEE Today's Engineer cites a troubling trend against innovative ideas in the courts today. Sony sued a 21 year hobbyist for porting Linux to the PS3. This seems like fair use to me and it's ironic because the Sony Betamax resulted in the fair use Supreme Court decision in 1984.

The April 2011 issue of IEEE Today's Engineer has a number of articles on entrepreneurship.

The SBA has posted a handy fact sheet summarizing tax breaks available to small businesses.

Hiring good people for your startup is tough, very tough. An article at TechCrunch on whom to hire at a starup by serial entrepreneur and VC Mark Suster is very informative and useful.

A new website that describes a spectrum of innovations every company must master to be successful. The 10 types of Innovation fall in four broad categories including finance, process, offerings, and delivery.

In his blog, entrepreneur Jason Goldberg describes 13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO to be successful. I particularly like items 12 and 13 on the list but having fun and loving everything about your startup is darn hard to do.