Seeing your babies grow up is bittersweet. Watching my daughters scare others at our haunted house this Halloween, instead of being scared, was both fun and sad. I feel that same conflict with PayPerPost’s evolution to IZEA, being formally announced tomorrow. PPP has gone from being an unknown upstart in the summer of 2006, to [...]
Florida Venture Blog
by Dan Rua…just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs…
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Oct 25
Venture Capital Not Required
This post is for all those entrepreneurs who are building great businesses, but have no need or interest in venture capital. Given all the emphasis on venture capital from pundits, startup mags and regional entrepreneurship organizations, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that venture capital isn’t a requirement for building something great. In [...]
Oct 19
Blog Ethics, Bias and Disclosure for Online Communicators
I’ve been reading Dave Taylor’s writing for the past year+ and he garnered plenty more fans before me. He’s an accomplished entrepreneur, techie and writer. For the past week over at iAOCblog.com (International Association of Online Communicators) he’s been covering the topics of bias, conflicts, disclosure and ethics. I match his school of thought that [...]
Oct 18
Startup on Other People’s Servers (OPS)
A came across Peter Yared’s Musings while looking for details on his latest startup, wdgtbldr. Peter previously built ActiveGrid and has some great nuggets to share the second time around. His post, A Startup in the Cloud, captured an accelerating trend with big implications. We’ve heard plenty about all the web programming advances that allow [...]
Oct 12
BlogWorld & PostieCon: Will I see you there?
The last time a combo this good came along they named it PB&J. BlogWorld and PostieCon are just around the corner, taking over Vegas from Wednesday November 7th to late, late Saturday November 10th. Just as Peanut Butter is the anchor of a great PB&J, chock full of goodness (and a few nuts); BlogWorld has [...]
Oct 08
Sometimes Bigger is Better
Round size is a topic that always makes me chuckle when entrepreneurs share the feedback they hear on the fundraising trail. Every fund has refined the story that fits their fund, regardless of the business: larger fund = raise more money, smaller fund = raise less money. I don’t think most VCs are being disingenuous, [...]
