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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 8221; The problem is that you’re opening yourself up to a claim by one of these people that you somehow stole their ideas. I 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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Friday, August 28, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons
I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We It didn’t add up to me. How Bad morale is the enemy of any company let alone a start up.” Building companies is hard work. I We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
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.
When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. 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 ).
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. In this post, I want to look at just the question of when it makes sense to use Facebook Connect, Twitter Oauth, OpenID, Yahoo Browser-Based Authentication, Google Friend Connect or basically any of the other authentication mechanisms. Example What do I mean? closed platforms. I’m constantly struggling with trying to figure out the best way to pull together solutions,
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up . I used an image from Roger Smith that describes the varying roles of a CTO as the company matures. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. Most often at the earliest point in the life of a startup, the dominant need is certainly to produce product to get something in the market, get funding, etc. I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer. 8221; Look at Google. Trust me, whatever you want to build you’ll be told by most VC’s something like, “Social networking has already been done,” “You’ll never get a telecom carrier deal done,” or “Google already has a product in this area.” 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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Monday, September 7, 2009
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;
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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.
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Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. Best
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
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?” Google suddenly makes your product category free)
- 8221; That is so self centered it winds me up. Tell This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital .
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Sunday, September 13, 2009
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 And if you’re not careful you might start to believe your own hype.
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
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