Have you seen what Starbucks is doing with their customers? They’re asking their customers to suggest ways to improve their products, and also to suggest ways of improving the experience when the customers purchase the products.

evly has created an app for owners of Facebook fan pages, that not only lets the Facebook fans suggest ways [...]

[Read more →]

While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed through their programmes.
The formal definition of an accelerator is [...]

[Read more →]

Moved to:
http://ericedelstein.com/paid-thoughts/why-raising-funding-in-silicon-valley-is-a-big-deal/

[Read more →]

It’s been a crazy few months living in San Francisco & Silicon Valley (a blog post on life in the valley is way overdue), and I checked my comments for the first time in ages.
There were HUNDREDS of comments which at first glance looked genuine, but because I saw them in one go, I straight [...]

[Read more →]

So you want to raise funding? Either an angel round or a Series A round, from the HOT investors. An angel or VC fund in either New York, Boston or Silicon Valley? Yes, there have been cases where entrepreneurs have gone to the “Send me your pitch” page, and emerge with bucket-loads [...]

[Read more →]