Predicting the Trajectory of Very Early Stage Companies It's widely acknowledged that initial startup costs for many internet-enabled companies (SAAS, consumer web, mobile apps, etc all fall into this bucket) have dropped dramatically in the last decade. As a result, many companies can get off the ground and make significant progress on modest amounts...

Why I Wish My Competitors Well And You Should Too I’m going to start with a story — which includes a confession. When I started my first company, I didn’t start with a grand mission. The idea behind the business wasn’t transformational. It wasn’t going to change the world. Historians weren’t going to write about it after I was dead. And all...

Keep Your Startup Virtual My advice for those starting a new company: Stay virtual as long as possible. One thing we did get right at Lookery was minimizing our infrastructure which let us focus our energy and cash on getting our product to market — fast. We’re following a similar model at my new startup, Performable. So far there are three...

Welcome to the new and improved VentureFizz Blog...now called Voices! We receive a tremendous amount of feedback from our readers and followers about how we can make VentureFizz better. The most requested feature is to add full length blog content on our site. The original layout for the Blogs section on VentureFizz was an aggregation of blogs that we...