Ten Topics a Venture Capitalist Cares About

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According to Guy Kawasaki The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:1. Problem
2. Your solution
3. Business model
4. Underlying magic/technology
5. Marketing and sales
6. Competition
7. Team
8. Projections and milestones
9. Status and timeline
10. Summary and call to action

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Ten Topics a Venture Capitalist Cares About

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According to Guy Kawasaki The ten topics that a venture capitalist cares about are:1. Problem2. Your solution3. Business model4. Underlying magic/technology5. Marketing and sales6. Competition7. Team8. Projections and milestones9. Status and…

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A week in Tweets: 03-09 July 2011

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Almost catching up, for once – not quite a full week late. Here it is anyway: another week’s collection of Tweets and links, shuffled into the respective categories (or not, as the case may be). And, of course, the necessary ‘Read more…’ link:

Enterprise-architecture, business strategy and all manner of other business-big-picture themes:

florian__: Bottomline is, diagrams […]

Using Business Model Canvas for non-profits

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How do we use Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas for the business of a not-for-profit organisation? Or, for that matter, the non-monetary aspects of a commercial organisation?
Over the past while have been asked by quite a few folks – Shawn Callahan, Alan Rodriguez, Robert Phipps and others – about how to use the Business Model Canvas in […]

What’s my own business-model?

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How do I make money, in my business? What’s my own business-model?
That was part of a follow-on to my previous post on ‘What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?‘, in a great phone-conversation with a colleague last night, who challenged me to describe my own business-model and business-architecture.
To him, he said, a business-model is a kind of […]

Reinvent Your Training Methods

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I was recently at the MIT Center for Information Systems Research (where PwC is a Patron) for their summer briefings.  Andy McAfee, is one of the regular guests and told some stories contrasting the degree of difficulty in finding the information we want in our own organizations with that of searching the public internet – night and day for most. The contrast reminded me of a discussion I had with an insurance CIO about the […]

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TOGAF Certification

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Well, I am one week away from going for my TOGAF certification.  For those who are also going for your certification and want some additional prep, I found two sets of additional questions for Part I and Part II (scenarios) of the test.  Chec…

What do we mean by ‘business-architecture’?

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One of the keys to breaking free from IT-centric ‘enterprise’-architecture lies in reclaiming the meaning of the term ‘business-architecture’.
In TOGAF and other ‘classic’ enterprise-architecture, everything revolves around IT: the IT is deemed to be the sole centre of meaning within the enterprise. Hence ‘business’-architecture is defined as a subset of ‘enterprise’-architecture, which itself is defined […]

The Art of Enterprise Architecture – Section 10 – Domains

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We may distinguish six kinds of problem domains, to wit Simple; Entangling; Temporizing; Narrow; Precipitous; Location; These six are problem related principles connected with the scene. The architect who has attained a responsible post must be careful to study them. Simple problems Problems which can be easily understood by anyone is called simple. With regard […]