Startup Weekend in Amsterdam 24 Sep - 26 Sep

Just came across the site startupweekend.org. Sounds very exciting. At the event you meet other entrepeneurs, designers, programmers etc. and try to come up with a new business in 54 hours. It's starting on Friday at 6pm and ending on Sunday at 8pm. The startup weekends are organized in cities all over the world.....

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How to scale a company

When your startup is growing you need to scale it. Ben Horowitz is writing a number of blog posts on how to do this.

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Firing a Founding Team Member

It happens almost in any startup when it grows. A founding team member does not fit in anymore. Some advice from Fred Wilson on how to handle this

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Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

Another nice blog entry of Ben Horowitz on Why they prefer Founding CEOs while the common belief is that a founding CEO cannot lead the company when it gets bigger.....

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Why Startups Should Train their People

Usually at startups there is little budget for training. Ben Horowitz argues that startups and companies in general should invest in training their people. Here is the blog entry

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Notes on Leadership: Be Like Steve Jobs, . . . And Bill Campbell, And Andy Grove

Here's an article from what the investors Andreesen Horowitz (the founders of Netscape) look for in a leader of a startup

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Angels vs. Venture Capitalists

Interesting post describing why Angel investing is actually getting more popular, because nowaydays you need in general less money to develop a product than say 10 years ago

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Inside Round of Financing: Good or Bad

An inside round of financing was always seen as a bad thing, because it meant that outside investors were not interested in the venture. However this seems to have changed lately. Inside rounds can also mean that the company is doing very well. Read more on Bijnan's blog

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Creating a Waterfall Budget

Found a nice post of the VC firstround.com that has a nice way of making a budget. They are proposing a so called waterfall budget. This budget makes it easy to see when revenue and cost are changing. The blog post describing the waterfall budget

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Internationalising your business

Are you looking for international collaboration partners? Would you like to see what's new in your sector? Enterprise Europe Network offers access to all the information you need to develop your business and find the right business partners.....

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