Deepak Javeenkumar focuses on disruptive investments in cloud computing, databases, data center infrastructure and clean energy. He is based in our Palo Alto office. Prior to joining GC, Deepak worked at Sun Microsystems and was an intern at the Yale Investments Office.
At Sun, he was deeply involved in designing some of the top 10 supercomputers in the industry and led the high performance computing practice in the Asia-Pacific region.
Leif Langensand is the Administrative Partner for The Halo Fund III Management Company and CFO for The Angels Forum Management Company. He has over twenty years experience in financial services and process improvement consulting.
Prior to joining The Angels’ Forum Management Company, Leif held numerous finance positions at Charles Schwab, including CFO for Charles Schwabs International division. Leif has also worked at Price Waterhouse (PriceWaterhouseCoopers) where he was a consultant specializing in profitability measurement and improvement for Financial Services firms.
How do you test your great idea for a startup to see if it actually has potential?
Lyne Noella
by Lyne Noella, WavePlay
An explainer video can act as your virtual salesperson, explaining your value proposition, 24 hours a day in any location. Explainer videos share, in clear words and pictures, just what it is you are offering to the marketplace.
Often people ask us how much it costs to do a startup. Here is the breakdown of the cost. If you do everything yourself – code, market, design – almost free. If you want to launch fast – the price ranges from $1k for a simple app to $100k for a functional website like quora.com or meetup.com
Learn how to go from idea, to product, to funding. Chritina Brodbeck, the original YouTune team member, teaches how to build your product and test the product-market fit. This is the ultimate startup crash course.
If you’re looking for exceptional screencasting software, Screenium is it. It’s perfect for Mac users who want to record video and audio captured from their desktops.
You can use Screenium for all sorts of things, including creating software demos, recording online gaming sessions, making how-to videos, and providing tech support.
The first thing that jumps out at you is the flexibility. Screenium let’s you record a fixed area, full screen, a mouse area, or a single windows. You can record exactly what you see anywhere on your screen and make it a screencast with a few clicks. It’s very intuitively laid out, so you don’t have to wade through menus to figure this out.
Raj Gavurla
by Raj Gavurla of LiiiVEN, Inc.
The following list of productivity tools keeps the business running and allows me to increase performance:
You may have started your own business because you have a passion for what you do. Maybe you decided to go into business for yourself because you enjoy the freedom that owning your own business allows. Whatever your reason, chances are you didn’t start your own business just to see it fail, but many new businesses do because of lack of planning. A few simple things can save you from disasters down the road, though. Follow these four easy guidelines to save your business later from a possible disaster.
1. Protect Your Assets
Let’s face it—insurance is a necessary evil. No one enjoys paying bills, and paying for something that doesn’t allow you to see the immediate return can make it tempting to put off the expense.
As part of our Founders Spotlight Series, we like to shine a light on our members’ startups and explain what they did right and wrong. This week, we’re proud to feature Loqheart and their amazing game Cannon Cat.
Here’s their story written by David and Don, the founders:
With zero marketing budget, one passionate programmer, an artistic rocket scientist, and a wacky flying cat character, you too can get to the top of Apple’s mobile gaming charts!
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