DC Startup Community 2.010
A few days ago I had a chance to catch up with an old friend with whom I first met back in 2006 when he had his (then) startup. We had a great conversation this week. Four years later he’s working for a big company and looking for his next new job. He would really [...]
Pattern Recognition for Entrepreneurs, not just VC’s
by Don Rainey (blog)
VC’s use “pattern recognition” to assess the viability of deals. Pattern recognition is a method of seeing commonalities between a current , novel concept and previous ideas. And while it is a great tool commonly used by Venture Capitalists, the pattern recognition tool is mostly ignored by entrepreneurs. [...]
Wanted: Innovative Hardware, Software Products
Comments OffI just got a reminder of how much technology has changed in my lifetime thanks to a photo from my dad. When I was 6 years old a game cartridge was roughly the size of the cable box remote and the computer (my Atari 600) was about the size of a shoebox [...]
Think Before You Move
Comments OffMinutes after I write a post about brain drain to New York, San Francisco, etc. the phone rings. The caller says Hi, do you remember me? I’ve quit my job and I’m creating a startup! Uh, ok. I’m not going to go into details about how they plan to survive financially for the next 12-24 [...]
Software Engineering Brain Drain
Well folks, you have all been asking me whether or not the economy was spinning up job opportunities or not. My answer was a resounding yes if you posted the question over the past 2-3 months. We are approaching 60 job openings here on SocialMatchbox.com (note: we have more product and software startup company jobs [...]
Featured Job: Director, University of Maryland VentureAccelerator Program
Comments OffThe College Park, MD based Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech), a Social Matchbox Community Partner, is currently looking for someone to fill the following role:
Director, University of Maryland VentureAccelerator Program
The Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) is looking for someone who loves building exciting startup companies and who loves the university campus setting to be the new [...]
Changes in Lattitude, Changes in Attitude
Comments OffOver the last two weeks we have been to startup and emerging tech events in Florida. Next week we are headed to Atlanta. On top of all of this we are in the process of talking to startup founders who have been nominated to present at the Social Matchbox coming up on April 29th. So [...]
