We started presenting our company and talking about our views of the industry. I chalked this up as both a sign of nervousness, a certain social awkwardness / lack of confidence and a basic lack of interviewing skills. He started opening up. He then started to get a little bit negative on our industry. No guidance. MORE >>

know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise it’s relevant. When I started blogging I had an idea. 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. No, of course not! MORE >>

I wrote several of the characteristics when I did the Top 10 (11) Attributes of an Entrepreneur. If engineering got the shaft because “we need 3 more weekends from you to get this release out the door&# … then there better be a solution to make this up to them and to explain your decision. Zynga and others. So I left, too. MORE >>

I grew up in the US but lived in England for so long I can never remember from which country my slang comes. But then I started to see it happening internally. So we (and by we I mean “they&# ) at Accenture decided to come up with our own bull shit. grew up and played sports all my life. All startups are hard. MORE >>

Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. prominent startup CEO in NYC wrote me a private message telling me that this was an issue he was struggling with. ran board meetings as a startup CEO for more than 8 years. We’re all just grown up big kids who operate the same way we did when we were young. MORE >>