This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea.  Sometimes Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful.  Would When I hear entrepreneurs say that they’re kicking around ideas with 8221;  If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here . In the Beginning …

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. 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 new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by.  So what skills does it take to be a successful entrepreneur?  If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I

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. started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur :  Tenacity .  I Watch this awesome 46 second video from Rocky .  If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I

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. started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute:  Tenacity .  I I also wonder about the entrepreneur who would sign a term sheet that came from If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I

Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?” I’ve seen too many entrepreneurs try to do things on the cheap.  I Google suddenly makes your product category free) - This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital . 8221;

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” 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 great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple.  8221; I

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Startup Lessons .” 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 you know through the network and you think you’ll work well together or vice-versa.   Real world story – a friend of mine used to work 8221; Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders.  Best

This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons” I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital.  I’ll I know you’re thinking that you have your head on straight but I promise you the experience of finding yourself in this maelstrom will leave any first time entrepreneur spinning. Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50.  Worth

I scan it for the most important messages to be sure nothing urgent has popped up. 8221; They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. About six months ago I signed up for a service called PhoneTag run by Jamie Siminoff .  They I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan ” and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I