This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea.  Sometimes Moonlight Responsibly - If you are still employed please be very careful not to use your company’s resources to produce your product and please do not work on your next idea during business hours.  It’s 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 …

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

I started with a “top 11″ list – only because I couldn’t fit them into a top 10.  But But in the end I ended up with 12.  So But there are a lot of things that become norms in the VC industry that always drove me crazy from entrepreneur’s side of the table.  They Translation This is part of my series on Entrepreneurial DNA that was originally published on VentureHacks .  I I know this series has been running for a while (and is getting long in the tooth) – I promise it’s nearly over.  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 ongoing series with Startup Advice .  With With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. When I first read this post I immediately filed away in memory that there was important information to impart on entrepreneurs and led to this post.  Apologies Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences .  If

Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). These would-be entrepreneurs are best classified as Wantrepreneurs, as discussed in Entrepreneurial Enterviewing . This is a reposting of a ‘classic’ popular post. “You You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized

This is part of my ongoing series on startup advice but also filed under my sales & marketing posts . No advice I give will ever apply to 100% of companies, 100% of startups or even 100% of tech startups.  I I just want to state that up front because while I believe that this post will apply to most startup technology companies out there, I’m sure there will be exceptions.  By By all means light up my comments sections with any cases you believe where this advice doesn’t apply. Let me start by saying that most channel relationships

You can complain that you don’t have enough money, connections, etc, or you can be scrappy and find a clever way to use the limited resources you’ve got. invited Mike Michalowicz on Mixergy to give examples of how he was scrappy when he started his businesses, and help you come up with your own creative solutions for doing more with less. Mike Michalowicz is a serial entrepreneur and I The FULL program (

8221;  I don’t think that most startup blogs should be about how to build a startup.  That’s How do I get started? The advantage of the hosted version is that it’s easier to get started.  The I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice . I

This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and quickly became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work. So, on a Friday evening, someone would come up with a fictional project and over the weekend, 20 or 30 designers would compete to create the best design work and on Monday morning, they would vote and annoint one of them as the top designer, if you will. What I’m most eager for you to see are the steps the founders took to ensure that their new business proved itself and earned money right from inception.