Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters
This post is part of my series “Startup Lessons” Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see [...]
Don’t Drink Your Own Kool-Aid (Surviving TC50)
This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons” Tonight I was reading a good blog post (here) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. Worth a read on how to maximize the traffic that [...]
You’re Most Vulnerable Right After You Win a Deal
This is part of my ongoing series, “Start-up Lessons.” Recently I wrote a blog post about how I hated losing, but I embrace it. My starting line with every entrepreneur is that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned from F’ing it up on my first business. I even put that in the [...]
Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?
This is part of my ongoing series called “Start-up Lessons.” I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start [...]
Start-ups are all Naked in the Mirror
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time [...]
