Editor’s Note: If you do, consider these four tips from contributor Ben Yoskovitz over at the Instigator Blog. Ben’s full post, The Challenge of Staying Focused in a Startup, was originally published on on April 8.
Startups need to be laser-focused on what they’re trying to do. It’s damn near impossible – especially when having […]
Editor’s Note: Regular contributor Steve Nielsen, sent us his 9 tips for how to use your brand effectively. Steve is also the founder of PartnerUp, an online community that matches founders to cofounders. Please read Steve’s post in its original format at The StartUp Blog.
We all know that creating your company’s brand is one of […]
I’m a repeat founder and YCombinator groupie. I’m the wrong age group to apply to YCombinator, but I’ve still learned a lot from the incubator from afar — like, the virtues of micro-loans and “entre-sumers.” This is my story.
More than a decade ago, for my first startup, I was fortunate to have found a […]
I’m daily consumer of The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, mostly for its entertainment value, but there is also often real business intelligence there — even if, sometimes, you have to read between the lines and reverse-engineer huge doses of irony to get it. (We posted on Fake Steve’s School of Management: The 10 Commandments […]
All this talk of “free” being the future of business sure has people nervous. Small wonder. You got into the startup thing to make money! But the concept of ‘free’ is hip, and aint’ going away anytime soon. This is creating new and very real burdens for young founders — how do you manage […]
I’ve being doing the ’startup thing’ for close to a year and a half. That might not sound like much, but I feel that I’ve learned a ton and gained much experience. Following a recent startup-oriented weekend adventure I took a part in and some introspection, I thought I’d offer my take on Ye Olde […]
‘Long Tail-Schmong Tail, Chris Anderson’s-free-will-be-the-death-of-me.’ Or some such, griped founder Hank Williams over at Silicon Alley Insider yesterday in “Free” is Killing Us—Blame The VCs”:
Venture capital has totally distorted the market. VCs are investing billions of dollars in companies with instructions to get big fast and to worry about advertising revenue later. As a result […]
Congratulations for reading this far. Most people won’t, because there is nothing less flashy than the idea of writing things down. But I’m going to tell you why documentation is the major difference between a large successful business and a small struggling one.
In my telephone answering service, Centratel, we handle emergency after-hours calls for nearly […]
