I like software companies. I really do. In fact, I sit on the board of a software company, consult to another, advise a couple more and I am in the early stages of building a web based business. Super Angels such as Ron Conway are investing into up to four businesses (generally software/social media plays) a month looking for the next facebook or more likely the next company sold to facebook, Google and the like. I spend a lot of my time in a different world running BPG Motors, a start-up that is building a compact self-balancing motorcycle. My team spends their days bending and cutting metal, whirling motors and designing systems that encompass long lead-time parts. Rapid prototyping a product for us usually takes months if not years and not days. This is not a business where you set up a good developer with a case of Coke, and a Mac Book Pro and you get a working demonstration of your product finished ... Continue reading →
