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« Previous EntriesWhat to know about your first business trip to China
Monday, August 16th, 2010After 25 years in high tech I am making my first trip to mainland China (I have done business in Taiwan for years) so I thought I would make sure that I did my homework before the trip. In…
Talk to me live…at “Startup School” this Friday
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009I have been lucky enough to be invited to chat to Bjoern Lasse Herrmann from Startup School on Friday 27th 10am PST, and I want to invite you along as well.
- Want to hit me with a question
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20 lessons from Startup School you should burn into your brain!
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009Paul Graham, as you may know runs Y combinator and also writes very useful essays on various topics many of which I think are excellent and say so here in this blog.
He really got a double whammy recently…
Great seminar for Startup financing in London
Monday, November 9th, 2009![Doug_in_Ipswich[1]](http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Doug_in_Ipswich1.jpg "Doug_in_Ipswich[1]")
My friend Doug Richard and his School for Startups is running what will be a superb seminar on raising financing in London and if you are in that area I urge you to attend if you are raising…
Get a Complete Set of Founder-friendly Legal Docs
Monday, September 28th, 2009Adeo 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…
"So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur" finally makes it to “digital”
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
I am delighted to say that my book can now be downloaded and read as a much cheaper and more convenient digital format for Kindle and E-readers.
So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur?: How to decide if…
5 milestones to reach before raising venture capital
Friday, July 17th, 2009I was talking to a friend from my mentoring group at Stanford who works closely with both students and startups, Glenn Winokur, and he told me about some useful blog posts at the FreshBooks website written by The guys at grasshopper know how to take their marketing viral…produce a fun message, very well produced, if a little cheesy and get the world to do the rest! Anyway it’s an object lesson for startups on how to… 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…What can you learn from Joe Costello…so you want to be an entrepreneur?
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
At one of the classes that I am a mentor at UC Berkeley HAAS Joe Costello came and gave a lively talk, he is a charismatic and very tall entrepreneur famous for growing Cadence to near…A fun video about being an entrepreneur…and a viral lesson!
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Been laid off…should you hire yourself?
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
You know the numbers
