Found a domain name I wanted to use that’s unfortunately squatted on by http://www.mdnhinc.com/. So sent a mail to the GSB community on how best to acquire it. Some suggestions below: Use a broker Using NetworkSolutions for domain appraisal and approaching them anonymously on your behalf: https://www.certifiedofferservice.com/CertifiedOffer/offer/domainAssessment.do Appraisal based on: Word Relevance - based on ...
After a year at Stanford business school no class had discussed academic research on splitting founder equity—though I’d asked frequently. Weird. Finally I found something useful, notably from the University of Calgary and HBS, drafted just last month. Happy Canada Day everyone! The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures T Hellmann, ...
This summer, a number of students are spending their summer camped out near Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies as they start their own companies. When asked where startups should do their banking, here’s what the community had to say: PayPal – You can do a lot with a PayPal account and one of their debit ...
While business school rocks, one of the my favorite courses this quarter is in computer science. In CS 294H, Sep Kamvar and Jeffrey Heer teach social software design principles (e.g. tips for online dating) to teams of 2-4 developers building apps over 10 weeks. This quarter, buddy Neema Moraveji and team built out LineHive—a site ...
Avinash Kaushik began blogging on web analytics in 2006. Wiley called him to turn it into a book, Web Analytics an Hour a Day. He wrote it in 7 weekends working 7am to 9pm. Royalties from the project, ~$90K after 2 years, go to his favorite charities. His second book, Web Analytics 2.0, donated $16K ...
David Lieb would have been a second year MBA at Booth had he not dropped out to found Bump Technologies—famous for the iPhone app letting people exchange contact information via fist tap. Below: 35 second video on how Bump works Released in March 2009, Bump became the billionth iPhone app downloaded from iTunes. It’s become ...
John Doerr said something like ”Email me three books you like read, and I’ll email you a list of my favorites as well”. He spoke last week at the GSB with fellow Kleiner Perkins partners Trae Vassallo and Chi-Hua Chien. Above: (left) Trae Vassallo; (right) John Doerr It’s days like these when I can’t believe ...
Did I read this right? Is a VC offering startups $10K plus use of a Menlo Park office, fully-stocked kitchen and even a shower—without taking an equity stake? Above: Info page on Summer Fellowship Program from Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners offers a Summer Fellowship program that surprised me last week. I’d spent the ...