Miami in mid November is one of the best decisions I have made this year. Warm sand at night, cuban food to write home about and this little thing called the Knight Foundation.
12 of the screeners for this years challenge gathered to screen applications, almost finishing the over 3000 application pile. It has been interesting [...]
Your early adopters are a startups dream. They use your service, tell all their friends, they report bugs, they love you, they really do.
And you should know that at a point, you need to ignore them.
I read about this topic in Robert Scoble’s Fast Company article this month, Passion Play. What he says is [...]
I am a screener (read: judge of sorts) for this, if I know you, I won’t be able to look at your application.
Alright, November 1, 2008 is the last day you can submit an application to the Knight News Challenge.
$5,000,000 is being given away to fund innovative ideas that address the following points:
Use or create [...]
I was talking to a reporter from The Arizona Republic about the upcoming Phoenix Startup Weekend. The questions was on the line of
Some business owners here feel that’s the reason why Arizona has had trouble building a thriving technology community with readily available capital and other resources. What do you think?
Which is a great question [...]
Last night I did a video of a new BrightKite feature: Guess My Location. BrightKite is a location based social networking tool that allows you to check in via web, mobile or sms. See my profile here to get a bit of how it is used.
Ok, back to the feature. Simply, if you are [...]
Let’s talk about how it can benefit startups:
Time Rich vs. Time Poor
There is a clear divide between time rich (I just spent 4 hours on MySpace working on my design!) and time poor (I just bought a Getting Things Done app to manage my other GTD app).
If there is a continuing downturn, the amount of [...]
First, a great post from Tim Ferris’s blog on the “Transition Curve” of being at a startup (written by Cameron Herold).
Stage 1: The first stage of the concept is called “Uninformed Optimism”
Stage 2: The second stage is called “Informed Pessimism”
Stage 3 – The third stage is called “Crisis of Meaning”
Stage 4 – Informed Optimism.
Check out [...]
Hello. My name is Andrew Hyde, and I'm a startup enthusiast. Your attention just encourages me. Stop it. I am trying to quit. This is my personal site where I share my thoughts about startups, communities, coffee, and my residence in Boulder, Colorado. The great company that I work for is TechStars, which is most certainly the finest startup accelerator in the land. I have founded 4 companies, including Startup Weekend and VCwear. Find me online here:
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