Looking 4 entrepreneurial CEO/product mgr/biz-dev killer 4 a network-based service.. pre-launch, BIG equity, big peeps involved–ANY TIPS?? Do you want to make America functional again? Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea? Do you have a great team at your seed startup, but your product just isn’t working? Would you like...
[Continue Reading]Seeking a search engine for foreign language movies
I’m looking for a search engine for foreign language movies available via streaming. We tightly limit our kids’ viewing of videos/TV/movies, except for any content in the foreign languages they speak (Hebrew and Russian; they unfortunately are not getting the benefit of my intermediate French). Our challenge is that it’s hard to find professional caliber...
[Continue Reading]How to Identify Market White Space – Cambridge MA, January 22
The Harvard GSAS Business Club / Harvard Graduate Student Council/ HBS eClub are hosting me on January 22 in Boston; I hope you can join us. I’ll be speaking on: “The Next Great Entrepreneurial Opportunity: How to Identify Market White Space” Tuesday, January 22nd, 6pm, Maxwell Dworkin Building, 33 Oxford St., Room MD G125, Cambridge, MA I will...
[Continue Reading]8/7: The Next Great Entrepreneurial Opportunity: How to Identify Market White Space
The “Thought Leaders in Business” series at the Yale Club of New York is hosting me on August 7 for a presentation on “The Next Great Entrepreneurial Opportunity: How to Identify Market White Space”. I’ll discuss how investors and entrepreneurs can identify opportunities to build great businesses. You can see some related presentations I’ve made in the...
[Continue Reading]Market Research for Entrepreneurs and Other Cheapskates
I really enjoyed participating in OCE Discovery (Canada’s largest innovation conference). Some of our most exciting companies (500px, Interaxon) are in Canada. I’ve attached below the video and slide deck on Market Research for Entrepreneurs and Other Cheapskates....
[Continue Reading]Startup Idea/Seeking Developers to Bid on a Project
I have a great idea for a product. I’m looking for an entrepreneur to start a company to provide this product, or a development shop which wants to bid on this project. The big vision: one of the reason for the high valuation of Box and Dropbox is that they render the underlying hardware...
[Continue Reading]Startup idea: marketplace for business research and students seeking internships / experience
We’re looking to spend money with a startup business: a marketplace for businesses which want consulting research and students who want jobs, internships and experience. Specifically, we want a website where we can advertise the research topics that are important to us (e.g., best practices of operational improvement among VCs), along with the qualifications (e.g.,...
[Continue Reading]Disruptive Companies in Asset Management
We recently hosted an idea dinner on “Disruptive Companies in the Asset Management Industry”. The most attractive industries to disrupt are highly profitable ones, and asset management is traditionally a highly profitable industry. IMHO, the most successful disrupters in this area to date have been Vanguard (who popularized index funds) and the ETF industry. We...
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