Catching Up On Readings: Seducing A VC

Learn how it’s done. Click on the full article for this and all of the week’s posts. >>>

The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers (Part 4)

SM: What kind of revenue did it generate for you?

HR: On the Nintendo we sold at 4,800 yen and we sold 2 million copies. >>>

“Lessons from the Poor”: The Nigerian Clothing Design Industry

By Guest Author Thompson Ayodele

[Last week, Praneetha Manthravadi showed how the Scojo Foundation is helping to foster entrepreneurship through its ‘Business in a Bag’ model for selling eyeglasses. Today, an excerpt from a chapter of  “Lessons from the Poor: Triumph of the Entrepreneurial Spirit”, edited by Alvaro Vargas Llosa and published by The Independent Institute, shows how Nigerian entrepreneurs have turned the West African tradition of indigo dyeing into a profitable business.]

The adire, or clothing design industry, employs thousands of people in Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria, most of them women with little or no education who have used their entrepreneurial drive to make a living and create wealth where there was previously only misery. >>>

The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers (Part 3)

SM: Where did you find Tetris?

HR: I found it at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. >>>

Forbes Column 2009: Seducing A VC

You want Kleiner Perkins’ Randy Komisar as an investor? This week’s Zero-In explains what he wants from you. Read Seducing a VC in Forbes.

The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers (Part 2)

SM: Can you summarize the game for me?

HR: The name was The Black Onyx. The objective of the game was to reach the end and become a very powerful warrior. During the game if you attacked people or monsters weaker than you, your karma would drop. The only way to get your karma back up was by talking to people. >>>

Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Do You REALLY Have What It Takes?

In her post Do You REALLY Have What It Takes To Be A Successful Entrepreneur? Candice Arnold of CollegeRecruiter.com reviews Sramana Mitra’s latest book:

“In Positioning: How to Test, Validate, and Bring Your Idea to Market, Mitra again interviews over a dozen successful entrepreneurs to learn how they determined the best paths to take with their businesses.

Mitra’s interviews illustrate that successful entrepreneurs didn’t just come up with great ideas. They came up with great ideas that filled needs, and they strategically marketed those ideas to their target audiences. >>>

Deal Radar 2009: DubMeNow

DubMeNow is a mobile application for exchanging business cards and instantaneously managing contact information. Founder Manoj Ramnani came up with the idea on a flight from Washington, DC to Seattle. He had collected over 30 business cards and began entering all of them in Outlook. He was halfway into the task when his laptop’s battery died, and he thought that there must be a better solution to business card exchange and management problems. >>>