Zvi Band

Category: Entrepreneurship

  • Did I build one of the first microblogging tools?

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    A little over two years ago, in the summer between graduating and starting a “real job” I spent a good amount of time at the gym, brushing up on my various web skills, and building cool apps. I didn’t necessarily want to get rich off them, they were more exercises in taking my ideas and…

  • Work/Life Balance

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    My first job out of college was working for a major consulting company. As is common in large companies, corporate principles and values are conveyed through long-thought out materials… standardized presentations, decks, and emails. One of the values that was always conveyed to me was creating and maintaining a standard work-life balance. At that point…

  • The Facebook Flea Market, or Why Diversification is the Only Free Lunch

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    Facebook applications are awesome – and a good number of developers and agencies have committed to themselves full time to developing applications for themselves and for clients. We all see huge potential for being able to interact with users on such a personal level, so easily. Relying on other services is a big component of…

  • On Charging Clients

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    In Israel, I often get around by taxi, if a bus isn’t convenient. Many fear the public transportation system, because of past history of bus bombings, and avoid it altogether. You have two choices when you climb in an Israeli taxi. You can have them use the meter, or you can negotiate a price. Negotiate…

  • Yossi Vardi Quote

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    A Conversation with Yossi Vardi Technology is like a piano. You need to have it to create music but you really need the pianist. The entrepreneur is to technology as the pianist is to the piano.

  • Career Planning: Opportunity

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    I’ve been out of college for a year and a half now (has it been that much/little?). I’ve been paying serious attention to the future, and more importantly, how I should approach my career. One of Marc Andreessen‘s blog posts has been the most influential and eye opening. Instead of the “if you had a…

  • Philadelphia gets its own incubator

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    Early stage incubators are hot now. A couple months ago LaunchBox Digital was announced. Now a new one is launching in the mid-Atlantic area. Hello DreamIt Ventures! Modeled on organizations such as Y Combinator in Silicon Valley and Boston, and TechStars in Boulder, Colo., it plans to raise a fund of $350,000 to $500,000 to…

  • Sequoia’s Don Valentine

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    “The trouble with the first time entrepreneur is that he doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. After a failure he does know what he doesn’t know and can beat the hell out of people who still have to learn.” Via VC Confidential

  • Nerd Networking and the Capital Cabal

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    I’m not a networker. I’ll give you a second to get over the shock. I’ve always operated under the impression that in the technical world, doing great work far outweighs who you know and who knows you, and that “networking” is left to the business types. In the corporate world, this holds true. You do…

  • On The Brink of Launching

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    I’m sitting here tonight on the brink of launching. The problem is, I’ve been like this for months. Any geek with a few hours free and a web host (I have 3+) can throw together a web application. Take an idea you have, or just find one online. Buy a domain name for it, upload…