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Monday, August 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Would In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify in an employment contract that ANY IP you develop while you’re employed by that company is owned by them. If 8221; If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here .
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons ”
Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation
know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many.
When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I I’ll put up the video when they post it on their website.
Many of them have their iPhones and laptops Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential
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Monday, December 14, 2009
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. But some founders have that extra quality that makes them never give up. An example
When 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.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly I know I didn’t. 1.
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Monday, January 25, 2010
Start by defining the problem you’re solving – I see way too many early-stage entrepreneurs who start their companies with a product definition rather than a market problem. You But whatever reason you’re doing this crazy startup thing make sure you do basic market segmentation and know the size of the market you plan to serve. I My perfect example 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
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity .
Street Smarts - OK, so you’re a tenacious person – you never give up. Well obviously that’s meaningless if your startup idea sucks. So I had written this whole series the 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.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise . In That is so self centered it winds me up. Tell Fail fast = quit and give up easy = spaghetti against the wall = no clear strategy going into your business = no ability / willingness to try and pivot as market conditions change = easy way out = today’s management mantra that will be laughed at in 10 years. Who In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded. In In general when capital is available take it (provided it’s on the right conditions and from the best
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity . I Every entrepreneur starts with an idea that they believe makes sense. But then your customes start using your products, your competitors come out with new offerings and your business partners decide to launch a similar product rather than working with you. 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.
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
of all statistics are made up. I started my life as a consultant. Fortunately I had to read each report, synthesis it and then come up with our best estimate of the markets going forward. In They had come up with a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) that was 3% higher that the other report, which in a few years makes a huge difference. I How to Interpret Analyst Reports
The headlines in the media are filled with that latest stats. Stats
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