Every entrepreneur and investor should always assume that 1,000 companies are doing the exact same thing and assume it will take five to ten years before the business reaches critical mass. vertical incubator is group of investors and entrepreneurs who collectively form companies that focus on specialized industry vertical. MORE >>

If you want to manage a hyper-growth company, start with a great product. That is, a company that focuses all functions on the product. Sales and marketing become the channels to take that product to market and everything else in the organization-finance, human resources, IT-are there to support the product and those who work on it. MORE >>

know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” Here’s my view: I support a “mobile first” strategy for many companies. Mobile First, Web Second (continued). MORE >>

Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make. When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which kind of customers do you want to serve. MORE >>

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. It’s hard enough to build a successful company. MORE >>