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Join the Experiment; Are you a Focused Entrepreneur? – Startup weekend NEXT (week 3)

Shlomo — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:26:52 +0000

Note from Shlomo: This Post is part of a series of posts about Startup weekend NEXT Beijing program, aiming to enhance our customer discovery for our startups. We are currently 10 teams on different segments trying to figure out out customers pain points so eventually we will deliver them the [...]

Presentation and Video: Customer Development Hacking Tools Recipe

Shlomo — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 01:17:50 +0000

The biggest Barcamp event was held last Sunday in Beijing. They are holding one event every 3 month and on every event they add another speakers room. The organizers got to 5 speaker room on that last one! which consist of more than 40 speakers. I had rough time thinking what I should talk [...]

Your Startup Pivot Costs – Startup Weekend NEXT Program (week 2)

Shlomo — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:16:45 +0000

What NEXT Program Made me Think About? Open Your Eyes!

Shlomo — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:31:14 +0000

If you have been following my blog for the last couple of months, you know I’m in the process of doing customer development for Go Finish. As Go Finish is in the education domain we decided we will interview college students as our target market and we’ve interviewed 60+ students. It’s [...]

A Case Study: How I Failed Being Lean?

Shlomo — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:27:25 +0000

So, recently there was an awesome meeting of the lean startup group here in Beijing. There was a great show up, and I was tremendously glad that there was a really good mix of foreigners and locals, which improves the Startup Ecosystem. I’ve mentioned I’m working on an ebook and [...]

How Helping Other Entrepreneurs Would Scale You up? (in No Time!)

Shlomo — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 00:43:58 +0000

There is a great post about helping other on their entrepreneurial quest, that kevin Dewalt published a while ago. Kevin decided to have limited open office hours and help others entrepreneurs (And even developed a product around it…) . About the same time he started, I started doing the same thing, we still never met [...]

Some Thoughts on How to Acquire Good Habits

Shlomo — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:33:04 +0000

Summary: Every entrepreneur has this daily struggle as of flexible working hours and being self employed, many times still working from home. In the following post I share some of the things I realized about this process of acquiring a habit. Unfortunately habits were never my strong side, and as a person that always trying to do things [...]

Angel Developers – bypassing the Founder’s Dilemma

Shlomo — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:50:50 +0000

Note from Shlomo: I’m very glad to present additional partners of Startup Noodle. I have the privilege to work with Steve on a couple of projects and I highly trust Ikura’s agile process and tech skills to deliver the best prototypes for start ups who begin their journey with a brand new idea coming up. Take is away Steve! Tech-based [...]

How to build a startup ecosystem?

Shlomo — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:19:02 +0000

Last Sunday, I had the privilege to talk at Barcamp Beijing which was great and VERY exciting. I spoke about “How to Build a startup ecosystem”. As a foreigner in China I got to know the tech scene here in Beijing quite well I think. The atmosphere here for startups and entrepreneurship is great and [...]

Taking the VC role when raising funds for your startup

Shlomo — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 05:59:26 +0000

Note from Shlomo: The original post was written last week and took a couple of days to collect all materials for it. So, this didn’t really happen yesterday but a week ago. ooouchh, yesterday was a tiring day. I got the chance to manage the largest class we ever had on [...]