It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer.  You think that anybody really believed 1999 that two young kids out of Stanford had a shot at unseating Yahoo!, If you’re already running a startup you know all this.  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.

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.

The promised to follow up with: calls, using your product, talking to customers or “noodle on things.” Despite best intentions they probably won’t follow up on their actions. Why don’t VC’s follow up? If any of this happens it’s This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221;  Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough.  Some

This is part of my ongoing series on Start-up Lessons that I learned from founding two companies. But first I’d like to start with a story. They had a team trained up in Documentum and we certainly had enemies from the inside.  But I immediately put a full team on contract I HATE LOSING . I

Needless to say I was positively predisposed to this individual before the meeting started. How you got to the VC is important, but once you’re in the meeting it’s obviously up to you to make the most of it.  We started by talking about this person’s background.  This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC .” 8221;

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,

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice . and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0

Brandon Watson came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money for his startup, how he grew it, and why he had to sell it. From the start we knew we needed to pay salaries.  Google was the most expensive of our traffic buys, so we also bought ads on Yahoo, MSN, and Ask. Have you noticed how some entrepreneurs look at getting funding as the ultimate sign of success? Not only is funding not the finish line, but the mistakes you make when you get investors can cost you when you finally do get to the finish line and are ready to sell your company.

A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy.

Studenmund is an advisor focused on startups, rapid growth, turnaround, and merger and acquisition, and was previously Chief Operating Officer at Overture. The firm said Studenmund also has served as PayMyBills.com and First Interstate Bank, in addition to her time at Overture Services and Yahoo. Tags: passenger brand community online software executive overture yaho Los Angeles-based Passenger , which operates online communities for major brands, said today that it has named Jaynie Miller Studenmund to the firm's board of directors. Studenmund also serves on the boards of Orbitz, eHarmony,