Common Mistakes First-time Entrepreneurs Make
We underestimated the difficulty of managing a team and undervalued the skills of general management, process, and strategy. Siqi Chen We used our limited resources as a startup to attack…
Founder Lessons
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Startup Founder Lessons: Scott Dunlap On Raising Series A Mistakes
Scott Dunlap is an Entrepreneur, currently obsessing on next gen location-based mobile apps. Early exec at E.piphany (9th highest IPO in 1999), Loudcloud/Opsware (IPO 2001, sold to HP in 2007),…
How Much Focus Should Startup Founders Place On Getting Acquired?
Early in my investment career, I had lunch with a Sequoia partner who explained to me some of the fundamentals of their investment strategy. One of them is that “good…
TWELVE Reasons Why Businesses Fail
I have signed up for a copy of the 7 Steps to Successful Startup by Naeem Zafar, a member of the faculty of Haas Business School at the University of…
Startup Founder Lessons: Jay Neely- How To Draw Attention To Your Product
Jay Neely is a startup founder & marketing consultant. He writes about Boston entrepreneurship, web strategy, and marketing at socialstrategist.com Jay shares his thoughts on techniques startups use to initially…
Startup Founder Lessons: Mike Raybman on WaySavvy.com Lessons
Mike Raybman is the co-founder of WaySavvy. WaySavvy is an online travel service that analyzes thousands of hotels and flights for each trip and deliver the optimal “Savvy Choice” in…
Startup Founder Lessons: Jason Fried On Company Culture
Jason Fried is the co-founder and president of 37signals , a Chicago-based company that builds web-based productivity tools. Fried is the co-author, with David Heinemeier Hansson, of the book “Rework”,…
Startup Lessons In The First Year of Operation
# Focus, focus, focus. Don’t chase every good idea that comes along, focus on a core product or service and, iterate around it. Simon Olson # Don’t hire in anticipation…
Must Watch:The Startup Kids, A Documentary About Startup Founders
The Startup Kids is a soon to be released documentary about young entrepreneurs in the US and Europe. The project was started by two highly motivated Icelandic girls who like…
Startup Founder Lessons: Fahd Butt on Why thinkpanda.com Failed
Fahd Butt was the founder, Chief Technology Officer at Thinkpanda (An academic research and collaboration platform). He is now the Founding Engineer (Employee #1) at Y Combinator-backed Nowmov (Nowmov is…
Startup Founder Lessons: Steve Huffman, Co-founder of Hipmunk and Reddit
Steve Huffman graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Computer Science in 2005. Immediately after leaving Virginia, he founded reddit.com with his college roommate, Alexis Ohanian. In…
Startup Founder Lessons: Sarah Prevette On Sprouter Lessons
Sarah Prevette is the CEO & founder of Sprouter. Sprouter is where founders get help with their startups. Sprouter allows entrepreneurs to get curated answers to small business questions from…
Fred Wilson On Startups
Fred Wilson is the co-founder of Union Square Ventures ($125 million in capital under management), New York City-based venture capital firm with investments in Web 2.0 companies such as Twitter,…
Startup Founder Lessons: Aaron Franklin On Getting To Beta
Guest post written by Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter.com an application designed to end procrastination and forgetting. LazyMeter has now been in beta for 7 weeks. Our first cohort of…
Startup Founder Lessons: Tomer Tagrin On Raising Money
Guest post submitted by Tomer Tagrin, Co-founder at Yotpo . Yotpo is a new start-up company that is all about users and users’ opinions. After a few weeks (or forever…