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. It didn’t add up to me. Every competitor is resource constrained. Bad morale is the enemy of any company let alone a start up.&#. Tags: Start-up Advice MORE >>

Decisions by indecision are those where having not made up your mind early enough your options are constrained or gone altogether. Even if it is subconscious people get a sense that they’re not “the chosen one&# and start to second guess joining you. It is the anthesis of JFDI. It affects us all in everyday life. Decision. MORE >>

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. But it does happen.  MORE >>

When you work inside a startup with lots of clever and motivated staff you’re never short of good ideas that you can implement. Each one incrementally sounds like a good idea, yet collectively they end up punishing undisciplined teams. That channel deal that you thought would take no times ends up burning scarce calories. MORE >>

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. By all means light up my comments sections with any cases you believe where this advice doesn’t apply. MORE >>