Navigating Risk and Design in Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Investing in new entrepreneurial ventures operating within The Creative Economy may be the best option for creating future progress. Startups have the advantage of beginning with a blank slate and their key strategic advantage lies in creating breakthrough innovative offerings while mitigating exposure to the disproportionately large risk.

The Sweet Spot for Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Successful startup founders are fueled by passion, a willingness to take risk and do whatever is necessary to make things happen. What they initially lack in financial capital, they more than make up for in human and social capital. So, how do startup teams most effectively match their limited resources

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: Riskonnect ,Marietta, Georgia

Riskonnect provides enterprise-class technology in risk management. The company sells directly to large organizations to help them manage their strategic, operational, and insurable risk. Riskonnect’s solutions are delivered entirely through cloud computing, utilizing the Force.com platform, an approach the company believes enables it to offer superior solutions to the risk management marketplace.

Are We Risk Averse?

Michael Arrington’s blog is normally a News venue. It doesn’t carry a lot of thoughtful analysis. However, he wrote an article recently called The Twice Shy Entrepreneur which is thought provoking. His core question is, are the entrepreneurs who were around before the dotcom crash risk averse compared to those that came after the crash?

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In France, Failure Sucks

We have had some discussions in the past here about how Silicon Valley’s success owes itself to the fact that risk-taking is encouraged here, and failure is not a stigma that you have to carry throughout your career. I recently attended a roundtable at Stanford with a delegation from France, where this topic came up

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