Been busy all summer @CapitalFactory building our company @GroupCharger Inc and products like @AlumniCharger and (soon) @CampaignCharger. Also, I’ve continued to speak and publish about lean business building @Worksody and @Cospace.
Over the weekend, I came across the following video from the 2011 Conference on Entrepreneurship. On it, Greg Sands of Sutter Hill Ventures speaks at length with Matthew Monahan of Inflection and Terry Austin of Guardian Analytics. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UElfyu4n6mQ] Besides a rich dialog in and around lean product development, startups, Series A, B, and C financing [...]
There are two titles that I see getting thrown around way too freely these days: entrepreneurs and business partners. The former is a topic for another day but suffice it to say, entrepreneurship is a profession, not just a passion. Regarding the latter, there are legal reasons to be a bit more discerning about your [...]
Senator Dodd, I know you are leaving the Senate shortly but, before you go, please don’t destroy angel investing by raising the bar to become an accredited investor. As you know, an accredited investor is someone who has demonstrated themselves to be an investor sophisticated enough not to warrant additional protections provided by the SEC. [...]
Starting a company is one of the all-time thrills you can have in your life. Nothing beats following your dream and making it happen. But wait… DON’T get ahead of yourself. You have to have a lot more going for you than just your idea, timing, luck, skills, cash, customers, and on and on. You [...]
What?! What’s a cap table? Well, as the old basketball saying goes, “If you don’t know, you’d better ask somebody.” It’s VERY important to have one of the key assets of your business — the stock of your company — under control from day one. When you are bootstrapping, stock can be a key to [...]
I have had an iPod Touch for the last 6 weeks and I can’t believe how much it’s helped me from a time management/productivity perspective. Here’s 5 reasons how: 1. Morning email – The first read of email of the day happens on my iPod, over coffee, as the kids are getting ready for the [...]
I don’t know which is the better option but, 2 things happened to me yesterday: – Our health care premium doubled (DOUBLED) yesterday (YESTERDAY); we get our benefits through my wife’s job and as the leader of a bootstrapped start-up, that’s our best option. – I saw this commercial for the public option and unless [...]
Initiative, taking action, showing energy, leading — all natural skills for most entrepreneurs. It’s important to make sure people on your team appreciate and embrace performance and nothing is more powerful than seeing the leader of the team doing just that. But wait…what if you are trying to create a culture of leadership and performance? [...]
The quote “…I wouldn’t have the chance to work with the incredible employees and mentors from whom I learned so much.” in Eric Ries’ blog post on Lessons Learned about 10 years of E got me thinking about how important having a great teams are to success as an E. If you don’t build a [...]
