Where Startup Funding Comes From
According to sources such as the Center for Venture Research and US Small Business Administration, startups are popping up quickly ...
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The Thing About NYC Startup Pitch Events
I am ambivalent about startup pitch events. There are a lot of them nowadays. Many would say this is a ...
Startup Stock Options Are Not Reliable Compensation
Wouldn’t you like to be one of the lucky people who joined Google and Facebook when these were startups, and ...
5 Bottlenecks that Discourage Startup Growth and How to Fix Them
Founding a startup backed by an “amazing idea” that you believe will change the world sounds quite glamorous when you ...
10 Key Traits of an Ideal Entrepreneur Partner
A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “For a Startup, Two Heads are ...
What Investors See When They Look At Your Startup
If you’ve gotten far enough in building your business to think about raising investment, then you’ve worked very hard and ...
Think Hard Before Jumping From Corporate To Startup
I talk to many people who have spent years struggling up the corporate ladder who dream of jumping ship and ...
Running a Billion Dollar Startup with Twenty People
Right now, startups are feverishly hiring in order to scale up their businesses, but could we in fact be doing ...
What’s More Important? Your Product or Proof-of-Concept?
I have had the luxury of meeting over 500 startups at Red Rocket over the last 3 years. And, typically, most ...
Do Not Let Investors Conclude Your Startup is a Hobby
Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to ...