Alex Farcet of Startupbootcamp (www.startupbootcamp.dk) interviews Clint Nelsen who is one of two partners running Startup Weekend (www.startupweekend.org). Startup Weekend matches highly motivated entpreneurs with various skills (coders, designer, marketers, etc.) through 54 hour events that bu...
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Kyles talk is centered around a list of productivity hacks but the most interesting portion of his talk is about how Justin.tv dealt with the failure of their original idea and, instead of giving up, used it as an opportunity to change direction and embrace a more mainstream approach to get to w...
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. Dan is also strongly opposed to over-use of venture capital, and advised the audience to only deal with it if absolutely necessary. Other peoples money makes you stupid, he quipped, avoid it at all possible. One of the most interesting passages from Dans talk is about how Vecna profit shares w...
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Dan is an entrepreneur, programmer, and author. He created the first electronic spreadsheet application in 1979 and has been innovating ever since. Dan’s talk is a fast moving flurry of images from the early days, growth, and acquisition of VisiCalc and his company, Software Arts, and his experi...
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Hemant, a venture capitalist with General Catalyst Partners, talks not only about what General Catalyst looks for in prospective portfolio companies but also about what founders should look for in a VC, term sheets, and so on. An advocate of bootstrapping (is this rare for a VC?), he agrees with...
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Dharmesh Shah, Hubspot (and author of the popular On Startups blog). Dharmesh apologizes to the crowd at least once for not being a professional speaker, but this seemed largely unnecessary as he had one of the more polished presentations of the day (although he did run through it a bit fast!) H...
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Aaron Schwartz of Infogami / Reddit (a Y-Combinator company). At 14, Aaron co-authored the original RSS 1.0 specification, and has been active in the technology, entrepreneurial, and political action communities ever since. As part of the first Y-Combinator program, his company was eventually me...
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David Cohen, founder of Techstars, was in Copenhagen to share his experience with tech entrepreneurship. Techstars is barely three years old but has already had 39 startups go through the program, 75% of which have been funded either by business angels or venture capitalists. Startupbootcamp is ...
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An energetic speaker, Alexis talks about embracing your users, and the need for evangelists to spread your message through organic traffic (web 2.0 aka labor 2.0). He encourages audience members to go above and beyond when interacting with their users. Make their experience memorable, weird, fas...
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Adam was the first speaker of the day and did a nice job relating Xobnis story. He talks at length about finding cofounders (shake the friends tree), their early days, angel funding, and achieving product-market fit. He stresses that being nimble is the key difference between successful and unsu...
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Robin Chase of Zipcar / GoLoco. Robin talks candidly about the origin and growth of Zipcar, sustainability, and the challenges that are facing the world and environment, and how doing good can be a foundation for business opportunities, too. On the topic of inspiration vs execution she says that...
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Angus Davis of Tellme, is an enthusiastic speaker, who relates stories about Tellmes rise and eventual acquisition by Microsoft. He also talks about his experience as an angel investor. His talk gets points for best use of technology as he employed a text messaging feedback system so audience me...
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