About 18 months ago, I made the colossal mistake of asking our lead analyst, Carla Thompson, “What do you really want to do?” I meant, within the company, of course, but Carla has never been one to limit the scope of either question or answer. She came back to me a couple weeks later [...]
Continue Reading →This year, Guidewire Group is a partner with LeWeb’11 to produce the Startup Competition at the Paris conference, December 7 – 9. Eligible companies will have less than $1M in financing and will introduce their latest product during the conference. To date, more than 500 startups have used our new G/SCORE(tm)software platform to [...]
Continue Reading →As I write this, the President of the United States is taking his place at the front of a joint session of Congress to present his jobs plan for America. A critical speech to a supremely critical audience – the Republican caucus, most certainly, and the American people at large. He will talk about extending [...]
Continue Reading →Running a startup is like riding a monster roller coaster. You push your way through line, excited and a little nervous, maybe even scared. You talk a good game to all your friends, while secretly stealing an envious glance at some of the seemingly safer rides. As you approach the ride, all the signs warn [...]
Continue Reading →Steve Larsen is an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. By his own admission, he’s not the “world’s greatest CEO” or even the “idea guy” of young businesses. But by my observation, he is among the most willing among experienced executives and entrepreneurs to share his experience with those who have yet to cut their startup [...]
Continue Reading →Last night, 200 intrepid souls took on torrential rain storms to bring warmth and good wishes to our new offices and home of our Studio G program sin Silicon Valley. Dedicated to the startup community in Silicon Valley and around the globe, Studio G is designed to be a high-energy hub servicing entrepreneurs, their mentors and partners [...]
Continue Reading →The Obama Administration today jump-started a key initiative of the President’s national innovation strategy, The Startup America Partnership. The program is a proposed alliance of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, CEOs, university presidents, foundations, and other leaders, “joining together to dramatically increase the prevalence and success of innovative, high-growth U.S. startups.”
And it’s no wonder. [...]
Continue Reading →Those of us who live on the coasts can easily regard the space between New York and San Francisco as little more than a six hour plane flight. After all, the brains of American innovation are in Silicon Valley and the pocket book to pay for it is in the Big Apple. At least that’s [...]
Continue Reading →Now that health insurance reform is out of the way (sort of), our employees in Washington (that is, Congressional reps and Senators) will surely turn their attention (if not their bipartisan cooperation) to economic stimulus and finance industry reform (get ready for Obstructionist Politics: Round 2).
Among the bits of joy in the financial reform [...]
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