Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons ” Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation 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

Tags: Start-up Advice startup technolog Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class This is part of my ongoing posts on  Startup Advice .  There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find.  I’m not one of those. 

Is your business’s success going to be based on execution or technology?  Or Back in the dot-com days, competitive advantage was largely based on technology development.  For It’s probably not the technology. Technology remains a competitive advantage in many areas: life science, Or is it something in between? For example, if you wanted to build an e-commerce site in 1996, it was really hard!  Any efficiencies

Tags: Startup Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice . I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0

Fascinating article by Andrew McAfee - Technology Beats a Full House - discusses how variation in performance spread decreases over time as systems become optimized. He shows that the spreads in IT heavy industries has greater variation over the past decade. ... winners were increasingly separated from loser

Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice .  Many startup companies hire advisory boards.  It’s very tempting.  It’s mostly done by first-time entrepreneurs who want to persuade (bribe?)

Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC” – the outline is here. You’ve You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s.  Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. 

Do agree with me that “cool technology” isn’t enough? (You can also see this video on YouTube .) Ever notice how dot-com CEOs keep getting excited about cool features, but hardly ever mention sales? You can learn a lot about the power of persistence and salesmanship from Baron Reichart Von Wolfsheild, co-founder of Qtask, a collaboration and project management tool.

I want to take pictures for the unknown technology that will be available to me in 20 years, not for the 3×4 print that can be printed now! God know where this technology will be in 20 years. And when that technology is available, do I want a digital picture taken at resolution of 5MP or 500MP? Next time a person tells me that I don’t need a digital camera with more than 6-10 mega pixel resolution, I am going to hit him/her on the head with the sharp corner of my camera (my potential targets here , here and all over). People who say that you don’t

If you want to vote for this interview on my favorite new site, click here . --AW AW I know that I'm not blowing your mind by telling you that Thrillist is making $5 million through its email-based newsletter for affluent men. You've probably read about it on other sites. I didn't invite Ben Lerer, the company's co-founder, to Mixergy just so ...Tags: