This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons.” 8221;  If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In Tags: Start-up Advice startu In the Beginning … This This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” 8221;  If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here . Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful.  Would 8221;  The In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful.

know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise it’s relevant.  You When I started blogging I had an idea.  I I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read.  This File this under entrepreneurial advice I

One thing that was interesting is that I'm finally starting to run into folks in Los Angeles who run in technology circles and who have blogs. So some of the newly found blogs: Joel Ordesky Cliff Allen Marty Poulin and some others I've found recently: Fabian Schonholz Shuki Lehavi However, if I'm missing others that are technology and Los Angeles related, please let me kno I was on a panel yesterday at StartupLA . The event was a good event and I ran into a few folks that I hadn't seen in a while and meet a few new people.

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers ” written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ).  If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. When to get I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed.  Much of this is unfounded – some is not. 

This is part of my ongoing series, “Startup Lessons.” Yesterday Yesterday I wrote a blog post (here) in which I urged people to not have too many founders.  Best Tags: Start-up Advic 8221; Yesterday Best case scenario in my mind is just 1, but at most I recommend 2.   I knew this topic would be controversial because when

wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by.  It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer.  If you’re already running a startup you know all this.  This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.

Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals ” in which he defined “Techies” as people who are not just “early adopters” but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent.  Normals If you don’t already read Chris’s blog you should – it’s very well written, often takes a strong POV and speaks from an entrepreneur’s perspective but with a huge knowledge of the technology investors as well.  He Normals (or “Muggles” as Catarina Fake called them) are people who, unlike Techies, don’t just use products simply because they’re infatuated with them and with showing the world how cool it is that they’re using the latest tech product.  They

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight.  I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all 8221; I

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Startup Lessons .” Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders.  Best You start a company 50/50 with a good friend.  If Or maybe it’s not a good friend but you’re a business guy and hooked up with a technical guy 8221; Best case scenario in my mind is just 1, but at most I recommend 2.