Startup Advice
What’s wrong with the Facebook IPO? The fact that the Company is
coming Public at $70 Billion or hgher valuation. That means the Public,
your average Joe, has to wait until the...
We’ve been developing Smarterer for the better part of a year now, quietly building a platform that uses crowd-sourced questions to validate peoples’ social and professional skills. Like many...
As I recently hit the second half of my 30s, I must admit that my views towards entrepreneurship have changed since I launched my first company at 22. Entrepreneurs like myself are...
Five years ago this week, I was part of a small team (me, Sean, Devin and Gerard) that launched MyPunchbowl.com (now Punchbowl.com). The site...
Last week I had a conversation with an entrepreneur who was confused about option pricing, and no matter how many times I tried to explain it, he never seemed to get his head around...
At the onset of 2012, many start-up executives around the world are sticking their copy of Lean Start-Up on the shelf, leaning back, and bemoaning the fact that they have a new...
As we wind down 2011, I thought it would be helpful to highlight some of top blog posts from the year. So, in no particular order...
“He’s a star. Thank god he’s on the team”. “He’s not scaling, it’s time to find a replacement”. I’ve heard that line from too many CEOs about someone on their management...
I had a meeting this week with a friend of a friend who was interested in getting into the Venture Capital Business. I have a few of these meetings every year...
When they are asked about the defensibility of their businesses, I regularly hear entrepreneurs cite “first-mover advantage” as the basis on which they will compete and defend their margins. It has come...
Given Volition’s focus on bootstrapped high growth technology companies, we meet company founders every week that have built amazing companies with very little resources. It never...
Startup founders have boundless ambition. Most founders can imagine their platform concept having broad appeal and meeting the needs of many customers, with numerous...
Failure is not an option...it is a requirement...to future success. Failure gets a bad rap. It is actually an important element...
A new phrase entered the startup vocabulary a little while ago: “Ramen Profitable”. The phrase is used to reference startups that are making enough money for the founders to live...
There is a very interesting article on Venturebeat by Glenn Solomon with a great graphic produced by Cowen and Company that separates public Internet companies by growth...
Did you see a horde of undead developers ambling through Kendall Square at sunrise on Saturday morning? If so, don’t worry… The world isn’t coming to an end. Part Halloween...
Everyone knows startups are hot. Fueled by a strong seed funding climate and several well-publicized successes there is seemingly a rush to start your own company. I'm a big...
When I was signing up for this year’s unConference, I was reminded how last year’s event was great because of the impromptu breakout sessions where it was fair game to discuss...
Sometimes it seems like all clients have the same issue at once. One series of issues that seems to be among the popular issues du jour is what to do to secure domain names...