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So many details to get your Startup off the ground…

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

A colleague at Stanford, serial entrepreneur and friend Joe Beninato has a really great new blog based around his adventures on his 7th startup Tello.

His is an example of the many granular things that just need…

Ron Conway and Paul Graham startup success data

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

I was watching Michael Arrington interviewing Ron Conway and Paul Graham and this is what I learned and also my own view after several startups of my own and those of friends.

So Ron’s very simple data from 500+

Great lessons from an Angel Investor Matt Coffin

Friday, November 27th, 2009

This is one of the best videos I have ever watched to help startups see what makes sense in coming up with an idea and other great lessons, how to avoid building something no one cares about, what angels…

Want to “burn” your Company to the ground…Fire the founder.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

This topic is always a hot one for founders when they are considering VC money!

Or indeed when they are talking with private equity companies.

I wanted to write about it as a very talented friend of mine was…

Get a Complete Set of Founder-friendly Legal Docs

Monday, September 28th, 2009

Adeo at TheFunded has come up with some time and cost saving free legal docs that look good if you are US based and starting up. They are written to be less “VC-sided” and if you can use them…

Excellent video for tech startups…by Eric Ries

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

I met Eric through a friend Steve Blank and these two have formed a partnership of sorts both in teaching great lessons on startups which grew from working together at IMVU where Eric was a founder and Steve a…

How to write a winning elevator pitch

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Writing a good and punchy “elevator pitch” is way harder than most people think. Plus I find that I really need to teach this skill a lot with my Stanford and UC Berkeley MBA’s to help them both with…

Been laid off…should you hire yourself?

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

You know the numbers

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in FEBRUARY 2009 Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February (-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent. In February, job losses were…

As you grow your start-up watch the corporate culture…

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Saw a fantastic post at http://www.infochachkie.com/corevalues/ – right on the money as usual!

As the CEO of an early stage high-tech venture and having started a few I have to say that as you grow the “culture…

Tech startup guides…in summary

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Writing about “how-to” startup could take 1000s page or just a few. In the last 20+ years of doing this I have learned a lot, mostly through my own dumb mistakes and I would say that again if you…

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