Archive for April, 2010
‘Green’ Building Retrofits To Be 20-30% of Commercial Projects By 2014 · Environmental Leader · Green Business, Sustainable Business, and Green Strategy News for Corporate Sustainability Executives reen building currently accounts for five to nine percent of the retrofit and renovation market activity by value, which equates to a $2 billion to $4 billion marketplace [...]
Unboxed – Lean Start-Ups Aim to Find Customers Quickly NYT writes about the lean startup. (tags: leanstartup)
Goodbye Career, Hello Success Goodbye Career, Hello Success – Randy Komisar on giving up on careers and getting a life. AWESOME read. (tags: success career life venture business startup lessons) Born to fail :: Idealog :: the magazine and website of New Zealand creative business, ideas and innovation (tags: leanstartup interview great)
Deutsche Bank: The Payoff in Building Green |Triple Pundit A few facts on the renovation: + The thermal concrete mass of the old building is re-used to collect and store heat. This is just the way it was done in ancient times (see your local adobe for more information). + Electrical usage will be cut [...]
This weekend rocked. I was dead last but got personal bests on all my numbers and didn’t blow up (and did finish!) so I was still happy. Next year I’ll be competitive!
Luckily I’m training with my friends who’ve done it before. They’ve assured me that it will be a complete suffer-fest. I think their words of reassurance were something like: “you think you hurt now – just wait until hour 10 when everything from the neck down is just one big cramp.” Thanks. I’m also grateful [...]
I’m super excited to be part of the crew (along with Bootup Entrepreneurial Society) bringing the Startup Lessons Learned conference to town via simulcast this Friday April 23rd. For those of you who don’t know, the Lean Startup movement (a derivative of lean manufacturing) was kicked off by Eric Ries, formerly of Imvu. It has [...]
If you’re looking to raise some early stage investment for your company, the Angel Forum is a great venue to get in front of local angels. Information below. Note the following key dates: April 23: next screening session. April 30: early registration deadline (save $100) May 18: Angel Forum event. See Bob’s information below: Looking [...]
Disclosure: I’m an advisor of the CO2 Impact team. I’m quite excited about the work that Boyd Cohen and his wife Elizabeth Obendiente and the team are doing and happy to see that they’re getting the coverage they deserve. They have a great article written about them on Care2.com’s site. You can read the article [...]
On April 23, over 20 awesome speakers are going to get together in SF for the Startup Lessons Learned conference. Bootup Entrepreneurial Society has kindly decided to host the simulcast in their Gastown digs. Speakers include: Eric Ries (founder of the lean startup movement), Dave McClure (the foul-mouthed, opinionated, and obnoxiously right-most-of-the-time angel), the KISS [...]
Behold the future of books. Imagine showing this to a caveman. They would stone you to death and then smash the iPad apart looking for the little people inside. This is truly awesome and inspiring as a creative work.
Check out the world’s best “deskphone.” This is brilliant.
Check out this crazy animation of Wal-mart’s expansion over 40 years. Looks like a virus breaking out.
I’m quoted in this week’s Business in Vancouver, discussing cloud computing, along with my industry colleague Sarah Morton from Backbone Systems (a recent sponsor of the Vancouver Cloud Camp.) I’m glad Curt got my favourite line in there, courtesy of Vancouver’s world-famous sci-fi author, William Gibson: “the future is already here, it just isn’t widely [...]
This year started off with a bang with Deloitte heralding 1Q10 as a “record quarter” in terms of deals done (180 vs the previous high of 165 in 4Q09). But only $35M of the $1.9B raised was by Canadian companies. That’s a shockingly small amount of finance for such a burgeoning sector. With that as [...]
Wow, the iPad hasn’t even launched yet but it has been a crazy week. Firstly Apple announced that the whole iPad thing was just a big April Fool’s joke. Those crazy kids. Kleiner Perkins doubled down by increasing their iFund from $100M to $200M. Clearly, they didn’t hear about the aforementioned joke. Apple is getting [...]
