bootstrapping.net » Startup http://www.bootstrapping.net Bootstrapping the web since 1994 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Launching at Innovate!Europe http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/06/06/launching-at-innovateeurope/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/06/06/launching-at-innovateeurope/#comments Mon, 06 Jun 2005 18:14:33 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=920 Next week a startup focused on “photos” that a great team of people that i’ve put together has been working on for quite some time will launch at Chris Shipley’s (of Demo fame), Innovate!Europe conference – selected as one of the few European startups getting the chance to demo. Really proud to launch at such a venue – but also humble of all the work we’ve got aheads of us.
Will blog when we launch our preview site…

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/06/06/launching-at-innovateeurope/feed/ 0 Dan Gillmor launches http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/05/15/dan-gillmor-launches/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/05/15/dan-gillmor-launches/#comments Sun, 15 May 2005 15:52:24 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=917 Bayosphere. Dan Gillmor launches his grassroots media startup.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2005/05/15/dan-gillmor-launches/feed/ 0 Oh, the difference a decade makes http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/09/23/oh-the-difference-a-decade-makes/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/09/23/oh-the-difference-a-decade-makes/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2004 11:21:27 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=868 Bnoopy: Oh, the difference a decade makes
Joe Kraus, co-founder of Excite, gives some perspective on what has changed since he co-founded Excite about ten years ago.

Cost Difference #1. The tools to develop software cost nothing now.
Cost Difference #2. Hardware costs are approaching 0.
Cost Difference #3. Start-ups have access to global labor.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/09/23/oh-the-difference-a-decade-makes/feed/ 0 Meg Hourihan – from geek to chef. http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/09/14/meg-hourihan-from-geek-to-chef/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2004/09/14/meg-hourihan-from-geek-to-chef/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2004 21:07:23 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=862 Blogger co-creator Meg Hourihan is turning from geek to chef
Follow your heart – amen.

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Lars has the breaking news – a change in management of the virk.dk portal only a couple of months after it was launched.

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Interesting network concept.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/04/15/sense-network/feed/ 0 Minc http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/04/14/minc/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/04/14/minc/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:19:21 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=748

Those swedes, those swedes
Was at the opening of Minc – the Malmö Incubator – friday afternoon and evening. Once again the swedes are pulling ahead showing an almost scary professionalism in creating the right enviroment for innovation.
The Minc incubator is a very stylish 2,500 square meter renovated building in the harbour area – just at 4 minute walk away from Malmø central station.
Funded by the municipality of Malmø with 35 million swedish kr. the place offers working places plus consulting/coaching for a fee of 1,500 swedish kr. per month per person in the startup.
The VD/CEO is Anders Sjöstedt of old yalayala fame. Yalayala was involved in creating Unitedspaces which unfortunately didn’t do too well – but Anders has learned the lessons and created a magnificient place building on his experience.
Nice example of collaboration between the goverment and the private sector – is Copenhagen ever gonna wake up?
[Full coverage with 17 pictures on the mblog]

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2003/04/14/minc/feed/ 0 Forbes Entrepreneurship: The Psychology Of Success http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/19/forbes-entrepreneurship-the-psychology-of-success/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/19/forbes-entrepreneurship-the-psychology-of-success/#comments Sat, 19 Oct 2002 20:15:25 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=629 Forbes Entrepreneurship: The Psychology Of Success

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/10/19/forbes-entrepreneurship-the-psychology-of-success/feed/ 0 Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good people are rare http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/09/15/good-ideas-are-a-dime-a-dozen-good-people-are-rare/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/09/15/good-ideas-are-a-dime-a-dozen-good-people-are-rare/#comments Sun, 15 Sep 2002 17:44:22 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=595 “Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good people are rare”.
“If you’re interested in building a business to make money, forget it. You won’t. If you’re interested in building a business to make a contribution to society, then let’s talk.”
Arthur Rock. Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and the first investor in Intel and Apple.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/09/15/good-ideas-are-a-dime-a-dozen-good-people-are-rare/feed/ 0 Guy Kawasaki interviewed by San Francisco Business Times http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/08/06/guy-kawasaki-interviewed-by-san-francisco-business-times/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/08/06/guy-kawasaki-interviewed-by-san-francisco-business-times/#comments Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:48:24 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=564 Guy Kawasaki interviewed by San Francisco Business Times
Interviewer: There’s a sense today that a few years ago all you had to do was sit down for a cup of coffee with a VC, jot down a business plan on the back of an envelope and you could walk out with a check for $30 million. Is that a myth?
Kawasaki: Well, it wasn’t that easy. You also had to boot PowerPoint, but that’s it. (laughs)
You gotta give it to the evangelist of evangelists…

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]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/11/flavorpill/feed/ 0 Silence is a virtue http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/06/silence-is-a-virtue/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/06/silence-is-a-virtue/#comments Sat, 06 Jul 2002 21:43:59 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=527 Scott Kirsner: Silence is a virtue – Tech start-ups of the late ’90s couldn’t make enough noise about how wonderful their technology was. Now they can’t stay quiet enough. “You want to build a company quietly and in a focused manner. That way, when customers start buying technology again, you’re there, and you’re there without six other copycats along with you.”

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/06/silence-is-a-virtue/feed/ 0 What’s the Buzz at the Innovation Factory? http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/04/whats-the-buzz-at-the-innovation-factory/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/04/whats-the-buzz-at-the-innovation-factory/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2002 10:37:07 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=522 BusinessWeek: What’s the Buzz at the Innovation Factory? – Walter Bender, executive director of MIT’s Media Lab, discusses how the demands on research change during tough economic times

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/07/04/whats-the-buzz-at-the-innovation-factory/feed/ 0 2M goes down http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/06/28/2m-goes-down/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/06/28/2m-goes-down/#comments Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:52:32 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=510 Danish venture capital posterboy’s 2M goes down. An amazing learning in what happens when you start believing your own hype, you get stuck in a severe reality distortion field, nepotism and incompetent management, why venture capitalists never should be publicly traded and most of all amazingly bad management.
Once upon a time this was a company i respected for their technology focused investments and amazing performance – before they came out as the biggest clueless dotcom’s of this decade in Denmark…
When their story one day gets written up it’ll be a textbook on what not to do for all entrepreneurs…

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]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/06/13/innovation-lab/feed/ 0 Allegro Ventures http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/19/allegro-ventures/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/19/allegro-ventures/#comments Sun, 19 May 2002 20:31:57 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=469 Allegro Ventures – new seed fund co-founded by Pattie Maes of MIT Medialab, Firefly, etc. fame.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/19/allegro-ventures/feed/ 0 Managing Information Warfare with The WarRoom http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/16/managing-information-warfare-with-the-warroom/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/16/managing-information-warfare-with-the-warroom/#comments Thu, 16 May 2002 15:59:42 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=462 Managing Information Warfare with The WarRoom – mission: all the companies that i’m involved in should have a war/operations room…

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/16/managing-information-warfare-with-the-warroom/feed/ 0 A Toolkit for Customer Innovation http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/11/a-toolkit-for-customer-innovation/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/11/a-toolkit-for-customer-innovation/#comments Sat, 11 May 2002 22:43:50 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=454 HBS Working Knowledge: A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/05/11/a-toolkit-for-customer-innovation/feed/ 0 Lead User Research http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/29/lead-user-research/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/29/lead-user-research/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:01:00 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=435 Lead User Research

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/29/lead-user-research/feed/ 0 Inventing the Future http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/10/inventing-the-future/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/10/inventing-the-future/#comments Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:06:41 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=403 Tim O’Reilly: Inventing the Future

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/10/inventing-the-future/feed/ 0 Innovation in the Making http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/09/innovation-in-the-making/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/09/innovation-in-the-making/#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2002 09:19:45 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=398 Innovation in the Making – new book about innovation processes by local danish researcher Lotte Darsø.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/09/innovation-in-the-making/feed/ 0 USA TODAY: Bad times spawn great start-ups http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/08/usa-today-bad-times-spawn-great-start-ups/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/08/usa-today-bad-times-spawn-great-start-ups/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2002 21:56:34 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=395 USA TODAY: Bad times spawn great start-ups

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/08/usa-today-bad-times-spawn-great-start-ups/feed/ 0 reflexioner http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/08/reflexioner/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/08/reflexioner/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2002 17:45:25 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=393 Reflexioner – det nye tværfaglige magasin for
reflekterende skandinaver. [danish]. Interesting new magazine from some of my fellow inhabitants at unitedspaces.

]]> http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/04/08/reflexioner/feed/ 0 The Pilot Action of Excellence on Innovative Start-ups http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/03/27/the-pilot-action-of-excellence-on-innovative-start-ups/ http://www.bootstrapping.net/2002/03/27/the-pilot-action-of-excellence-on-innovative-start-ups/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:32:46 +0000 Thomas Madsen-Mygdal http://bootstrapping.23hq.net/?p=385 CORDIS: PAXIS – The Pilot Action of Excellence on Innovative Start-ups

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