Recession, recession, recession. As if founding isn’t hard enough! We’ve written recently about how you can prepare yourself for an especially difficult year in the marketplace, and even about how such challenges can be good for startups. Still, it’s going to be a tough… Read More »
RSS Feed
Carleen Hawn
Recent Posts
One of the biggest challenges for startups is keeping in the public eye – getting the word out on a consistent basis to drive an audience, customers, buzz, etc. There are lots of marketing techniques for startups but one that I think is under used… Read More »
Recessions are good for startups because they foster: Frugality, Fine-tuning, ”Family’ Values, Forerunner-status, & Fire-proofing. We’ve been writing a lot lately about how you can steel your startup for the recession. (See links below.) Now Melissa Chang, writing on the new Industry Standard blog,… Read More »
We write often about how the only thing predictable at a startup is — the lack of predictability. Today HBS Working Knowledge has a quartet of essays on how you can anticipate surprises, manage disasters vis a vis your team, and… Read More »
Ok, you’ve had days where you felt the way that this guy looks. Smaa-ck! Now consider this: He got on base. It’s just one more way that founding is like baseball. “Not everyone gets a home run, but sooner or later you’re bound to… Read More »
We launched Found|READ a year a go with a post about serial founder Ev Williams, and how the things he’d learned as CEO of Odeo were informing his then-nascent startup, and now-raging phenomenon, Twitter. (See, Do as I say, not… Read More »
“[Scott] Cook has an unusual ability to ask the right questions (which my partner Vinod Khosla insists is more important than getting the right answers; in business, there are often several right answers),” writes VC John Doerr, of Intuit founder Scott Cook,… Read More »
More Must Reads
I found this old New Yorker cartoon, by Sidney Harris, courtesy of a columnist over at Inc. magazine, and it made me smile. Just about every founder (whether we admit it or not) has the fantasy, or nightmare, of at least one Black… Read More »
LESSON: Your mission is the goal. Your model is the method. Do not confuse these two things. The sad story of the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) is like a case study in what not to do. I know it’s a non-profit, but in the… Read More »
Question of the Day: Do social networks exploit their user-content generators? I don’t know if you saw Billy Bragg’s Op-Ed yesterday, The Royalty Scam, but it’s worth reading as a criticism of social media business models that leverage the intellectual and artistic capital… Read More »
Our weekly roundup of posts you might have missed, but shouldn’t. 1) The 1st and 2nd Gospels of Sequoia Capital. We posted on these last week, following a nod form TechCrunch (thank you). Gospel 1: Elements of Sustainable Companies. Gospel 2: Writing A Business Plan.… Read More »
Our friends over at VentureHacks, who’ve made it their business to help founders parse the arcana of term sheets, have gone soft. Recommended is a new site feature through which Venture Hacks community members endorse founders and their ideas to potential… Read More »
Question of the Day: Can your business mission be summarized on the back of a business card? If not, then I want to make sure you all see this: Sequoia’s Gospel of Startups More True Than Ever. In it, Mike has republished Sequoia Capital‘s 1st… Read More »
There is a well-established rule in our business that you can’t really found a company part-time. Moonlighting sounds great, but it’s a bit like being half pregnant. At least, this is the conventional wisdom, some of it very well-informed. (Paul Graham: “The number… Read More »
I had breakfast last week with Doug Renert, cofounder of Tandem Entrepreneurs, which represents a great new model for a startup service-provider. When Doug pointed me to this cartoon on their site, I laughed. It illustrates a very genuine founders’ state of… Read More »
Editor’s Note: Our friend Trevor Stafford, Editor of the Canadian entrepreneurs’ network, Red Canary, recently authored this fun bit of satire to demonstrate why so many startup ‘new hire’ interviews are unsuccessful — often it’s because self-obsessed founders treat such meetings… Read More »
Most Commented
- 31 Today: Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
- 93 This Week: 7 signs that Android is faltering as iOS strengthens
- 73 This Month: Why we are buying paidContent
GigaOM TV
Now Loading…
Green Overdrive: Tesla’s Model X!
Cooler than a minivan, more practical than an SUV, it’s Tesla’s new…
Popular Now
Latest News
- What to make of AT&T’s vanishing spectrum crisis
- Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
- Android this week: Chrome browser arrives; Transformer Prime reviewed; Android 4.0 updates planned
- 5 stories to read this weekend
- Kleiner Perkins said to eye “cloud” fund
- Amazon hiring creative execs for original programming
- Review: Transformer Prime; best Android tablet yet
