One of entrepreneurship’s great maxims is that it is vital that a founder know his/her market. But I’ve recently met a couple of really impressive entrepreneurs who have very little–if anything–in common with the markets their businesses purport serve. One of them is a cool Denver-based startup called … Read More »
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I believe that she is is funny for the same reason that he is rich: An astute ability to improvise. I am a teacher of improvisation for business and the author of GameChangers – Improvisation for Business in the Networked World, which comes out at … Read More »
In my Nov.5 post called 8 Steps to running your business on (mostly) free apps, I explained the value of using off-the-shelf software as opposed to costly custom builds, and the frequently unrecognized high value of free alternatives. This article will provide a more specific … Read More »
A few days ago a Found|READer introduced me to Ben Yoskovitz and his Instigator Blog. It’s awesome. I had other plans for posting to the site today, but then I found Ben’s piece on the defining factors of a leader, entitled: 10 Essential … Read More »
Editor’s Note: We have a nice post from Gabor Cselle today, on a topic I’ve been chasing for a while — real estate. Gabor is the VP of Engineering at the Y-Combinator startup, Xobni. (Xobni optimizes your email. We’ve written about the company a … Read More »
Google golden girl Marrisa Mayer, chief of the company’s product management for search and “user experience,” appeared on CNBC this morning along with Mark Modzelewski of Bang Ventures (and CNBC’s wildly energetic new host, Dennis Kneale) to talk about the new social … Read More »
Last night I attended Founder Hacks III, the latest a series of STIRR mixers for entrepreneurs in San Francisco. These events are great for networking, but I especially like them because STIRR always has a few serial founders get up in front of the … Read More »
Despite our regular posts on angel investors and coverage of how to pitch, land, and then “deal with” VCs, we still get plenty of recommendations for funding topics we’ve forgotten, neglected, or simply not heard about yet. (Keep ‘em coming!) Today I got a … Read More »
We recently had the opportunity to sit down for coffee with FusionOne‘s founder and CEO, Rick Onyon. You might not know FusionOne, but if you use a cell phone, you should. Through your wireless carrier, and for as little as $1.99 a month, you … Read More »
We’ve written recently about how domestic and global economic trends make it important for today’s entrepreneurs to take a global view with their startups. This doesn’t necessarily mean you should be investing your precious cash in setting up long-distance operations in other countries–which can be … Read More »
If you don’t read it already, we recommend that you start consuming Marc Andreessen’s blog. The creator of Mosaic and cofounder of Netscape, and LoudCloud — which became Opsware, which went public, and was later sold to Hewlett-Packard — is at it again now with … Read More »
We’re mostly big fans of Apple at GigaOM and definitely big fans of fsj, a.k.a, Dan Lyons. I mean, if you can’t laugh at genius, can you really appreciate it? (Or maybe: are you supposed to cry in the face of genius?) I’ll … Read More »
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