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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

By Mark Suster on November 15, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. An alternate outcome that I also unfortunately observer in some cases are companies who had extreme early success with an initial product adoption but failed in key areas that limited the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged startup

What Do Boards Actually Do?

What Do Boards Actually Do?

By Mark Suster on August 29, 2017

There’s a lot of mystique about what happens at board meetings and a lot of imagined board-room drama. I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. The image of boards and of investors […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged startup

What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?

What is the Right Burn Rate for your Startup?

By Mark Suster on June 30, 2017

One of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs make when they start a company and raise outside capital is figuring out what an acceptable “burn rate” is. That is, how much should your company be willing to lose in cash every month as you make investments in staff and equipment that funds technology, sales, marketing and management. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged startup

Should Startups Care About Profitability?

Should Startups Care About Profitability?

By Mark Suster on June 26, 2017

There are certain topics that even some of the smartest people I talk with who aren’t startup oriented can’t fully grok. One of them is whether profitability matters. It’s common cocktail party chatter to hear people confidently pronounce that some well known startup is sure to blow up because, “How could they succeed when they’re […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged startup

Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

Getting Your Head in the Game for Fund Raising

By Mark Suster on May 5, 2017

When you run a startup you’re always on borrowed time. You have cash in the bank, a monthly burn rate and a “cash out” date that few in the company truly comprehend. I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged startup, venture capital

How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

By Mark Suster on May 4, 2017

Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C. I pointed out that the storage market in the US alone is ~$30 billion / year and there is no dominant provider — the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged on-demand, startup

PIE’s Third Class, You Better Keep an Eye on These Companies…

PIE’s Third Class, You Better Keep an Eye on These Companies…

By Adron Hall on July 25, 2013

There are a number of new startups that have joined the third PIE Class. However there are a few that have stood out to me. The first startup has to do with the IoT. IoT stands for Internet of Things. I’m a MASSIVE fan of what is being done with IoT. Personally I think it […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged community, portland, reviews, startup, startups, techtown, uncage the soul

Find the data, aggregate the data, make the data useful

Find the data, aggregate the data, make the data useful

By Paul Miller on May 6, 2013

I was in New York in March, taking part in GigaOM’s Structure:Data event. As usual on these trips, I spent the day before the event walking around the city, soaking up some air, getting rained on, using coffee to stay awake, and meeting with a number of local companies. Of the companies I met that […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, data aggregation, Data analysis, data management, data markets, dataconf, enigma, enigma.io, GigaOM, New York City, open data, startup, structureconf, techcrunch, TechCrunch Disrupt

Startup Scaling | Overcoming 5 Key Operational Challenges

Startup Scaling | Overcoming 5 Key Operational Challenges

By Joel York on June 5, 2012

Startup scaling from zero to $100M is 10% strategy and 90% execution. You’d never know that from reading the Web, because the advice you’ll find online is 90% strategy.

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged chaotic flow, Scalability, scale, scaling, startup, Startup Business, startup scale, startup scaling

B2B Startup Marketing | Blog Your Way to Leads

B2B Startup Marketing | Blog Your Way to Leads

By Joel York on February 29, 2012

B2B startup marketing is tough. It used to be that you could polish off a high level message and a slide deck and let the salesperson handle it from there. Today, online marketing is the primary driver of revenue at the typical B2B startup. The new breed of B2B buyer expects your online content to […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged b2b, b2b blog, B2B Marketing, b2b startup, blog, chaotic flow, Marketing Blogs, startup, startup marketing

StartupCamp5

StartupCamp5

By Dave Michels on January 27, 2012

StartupCamp5 will be taking place at ITExpo Feb 1-3 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. I’ve attended the past four ITExpo’s and StartupCamps, but won’t be at this one. Feeling a bit wistful as so many people I know are heading that way. ITExpo is a good show – particularly strong for hosted service providers […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged innovation showcase, itexpo, Keynotes, mitel, startup, StartupCamp, telecom

Startup Business Growing Pains | Staying Focused

Startup Business Growing Pains | Staying Focused

By Joel York on January 19, 2012

There are a few good things in life that you can never have too much of, and at a startup business that good thing is growth. However, we all know there is always a price to pay for overindulgence. To my way of thinking, the key to being a glutton is to balance your consumption […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged chaotic flow, focus, growth, start up, start up business, startup, Startup Business

Don't Confuse Signifiers and Substance

Don’t Confuse Signifiers and Substance

By Chris Yeh on October 31, 2011

When it comes to startups, its easy to confuse signifiers and substance. The truth is hard to know, especially with early stage companies. If you don’t have a product or customers, it’s hard to have substance. Yet whether you’re a startup or investor, you’d be wise to focus on substance rather than signifiers. Not because […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged investing, startup

10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

10 Marketing Lessons for Early-Stage Tech Startups

By Mark Suster on June 27, 2011

  I made every textbook mistake at my first startup, which is why I believe I was much more effective at my second one. I have adopted the motto “good judgment comes from experience, but experience comes from bad judgment.“ We need to learn from doing, by trial-and-error. If I can help you avoid some […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts, Marketing | Tagged marketing, Sales & Marketing Advice, startup, Startup Advice, venture capital | 2 Responses

Holy Sh@#! Did You See What That Program Does!!!!!!

Holy Sh@#! Did You See What That Program Does!!!!!!

By Adron Hall on June 5, 2011

Have you ever worked for a startup? A successful startup? Have you ever seen the excitement in a startup meeting, hackathon, or other event were an idea starts to come to fruition! When the users of the startup’s application finally see it and start getting excited? Have you seen when people get so excited because […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged disruptive change, ideas, movers, startup

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