Posts Tagged ‘Silicon Valley’

  • Chicago: Hotbed of Employment Innovation
    Posted by on May 8th, 2013 at 6:00 am, Comments: 0

    One of the first things I thought of when we started Hyde Park Angels was not to mimic Silicon Valley.  No other area can be [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on April 8th, 2013 at 5:12 am, Comments: 0

    Louisville and Michigan fight it out for the national championship.  My gut tells me Louisville but hope the Big 10 can pull it out. Portugal [...]

  • Fauxpreneurs What Should We Do With Them?
    Posted by on March 21st, 2013 at 12:05 pm, Comments: 0

    Yesterday Phil Beauregard wrote an article in PandoDaily about getting crappy people out of your ecosystem.  Nice.   Points and Figures has written about this [...]

  • Are You Brilliant?
    Posted by on March 18th, 2013 at 8:59 am, Comments: 0

    Brilliant- bril·liant [bril-yuhnt]  Show IPA adjective 1. shining brightly; sparkling; glittering; lustrous: the brilliant lightsof the city. 2. distinguished; illustrious: a brilliant performance by a young pianist. 3. having or showing great intelligence, talent, quality, etc.: a brilliant technician. 4. strong and clear in tone; vivid; bright: brilliant blues and greens; the brilliant sound of the trumpets. 5. splendid or magnificent: a brilliant social event. Sometimes there are people or ideas or companies [...]

  • What To Look For When You Invest
    Posted by on March 1st, 2013 at 9:28 am, Comments: 0

    Since co-founding Hyde Park Angels in April of 2007, I have looked at a lot of deals.  I have invested in a bunch of companies [...]

  • Should You Head to Silicon Valley if You Are an Entrepreneur?
    Posted by on February 19th, 2013 at 8:06 am, Comments: 0

    It’s a question that every entrepreneur asks themselves at one point. Especially when they are raising capital.  It seems every day in online publications that [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on February 15th, 2013 at 7:33 am, Comments: 0

    Articles like this are popping up all over, and there is talk among some people about this.  Should you renounce your US citizenship? Short answer-probably [...]

  • Can You Build A StartUp Ecosystem? 5 Things You Have to Have
    Posted by on February 2nd, 2013 at 10:02 am, Comments: 0

    A lot of politicians are interested in pursuing startup ecosystems.  When they talk about it, everyone agrees that it’s a good idea.  Who can be [...]

  • The Chosen Road To Nowhere
    Posted by on January 28th, 2013 at 8:56 am, Comments: 0

    Whenever a business feels like it has to hire a lobbyist to work with the government, it’s doomed. At all costs, it should try and [...]

  • Breakfast Links
    Posted by on December 14th, 2012 at 6:57 am, Comments: 0

    Don’t know if you saw this, but a nice series on Restoring Customer Confidence. “My job is to sell products not events.” This is really [...]

  • Why We Should All Be Conservative Now
    Posted by on December 1st, 2012 at 10:01 am, Comments: 0

    It’s very ironic to me that two of the cultures I run around in vote Democratic when they run to the polling box.  Wall Street [...]

  • Test Drive of a Tesla S
    Posted by on November 4th, 2012 at 8:27 am, Comments: 0

    Last night the law firm Foley and Lardner invited me to test drive a Tesla S.  Foley has been a huge sponsor of the start [...]

  • Physical Mentoring and Virtual Mentoring
    Posted by on November 1st, 2012 at 8:19 am, Comments: 0

    One of the neat things that happen in Silicon Valley is the accessibility factor.  If you need to get something done, all you need to [...]

  • Chinese Manufacturing VS US Innovation
    Posted by on January 22nd, 2012 at 9:03 am, Comments: 0

    Long article in the New York Times this morning on Apple($AAPL), American jobs, corporate greed and the global economy. After reading it, you lose hope. [...]