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Nothing Matters But Traction

Nothing Matters But Traction

By Chris Yeh on April 29, 2011

Nothing matters but traction. It makes everything easy, but it is the hardest to accomplish.Too many entrepreneurs focus on working around a lack of traction when they would be better off using that energy to get traction.A common occurrence is that an…

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneur, investing, startup

If you don't have time to explain, you're not decisive, you're unfocused

If you don’t have time to explain, you’re not decisive, you’re unfocused

By Chris Yeh on April 26, 2011

One of my pet peeves when it comes to management is when someone tells me, “I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to explain.” When that happens, I think that person has been watching too many action movies. If you’re on the run from a secret government conspiracy, you probably don’t have time to explain […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged management, startup, Toyota Production System | 1 Response

Sell Used Music on Redigi: A Threat to Apple’s iTunes?

Sell Used Music on Redigi: A Threat to Apple’s iTunes?

By Mark Fidelman on April 6, 2011

I remember a time when the only way to buy music was to drive down to the local music store and purchase a cassette tape.  You had to buy the whole album then.  Yes, I’m serious. When the tape got old or the music fell out of favor I threw it away, listed in the […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Apple, Compact Disc, Digital audio, Ebay, itunes, Miscellany, music, Record label, redigi, Review, startup

InnoPrise – Call for Startups

InnoPrise – Call for Startups

By Dave Michels on January 24, 2011

Two words you don’t see so often together are innovation and enterprise. Innovation is often associated with young upstarts that intend to disrupt the established order – better, faster, cheaper. Enterprise conjures images of large organizations that were, at one time, innovative upstarts. But we know that is not true. Large enterprise organizations can be […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged enterprise connect, innovation, launchpad, startup, voicecon

Impatience Kills Startups

Impatience Kills Startups

By Chris Yeh on December 14, 2010

We live today in am impatient world. In many ways, that’s good. We’re unwilling to wait for the world to change; instead we go out and change it. But this impatience has a cost. People tend to view startups these days as overnight successes. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most successful startups had […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged patience, startup

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What Internet Startups Can Learn From Comics And Porn Stars

By Chris Yeh on December 10, 2010

It’s no secret that media businesses have struggled with monetization in the Internet era. Journalism, for example, is famously in free-fall. But all the hand-wringing conceals a simple fact: There is a very successful model that has been around for decades, and it still works today. All we have to do is learn from porn […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged businessmodel, porn, startup | 1 Response

SaaS Startup Strategy – Three SaaS Sales Models

SaaS Startup Strategy – Three SaaS Sales Models

By Joel York on November 16, 2010

Choosing the right go-to-market sales model for your SaaS startup can be a make it or break it decision. Choose right and you grow smoothly from seed funding to A round to B round and beyond. Choose wrong and you spend precious cycles chasing your tail as cash runs out. While most B2B SaaS startups […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged chaotic flow, cloud computing, customer self-service, enterprise sales, saas, saas sales, saas sales model, saas sales models, saas-startup, saas-startups, sales, software as a service, startup, transactional sales | 9 Responses

The Real Seed Of A Startup Is A Need

The Real Seed Of A Startup Is A Need

By Chris Yeh on August 9, 2010

With all due respect to the genius that is Jessica Hagy and Indexed, the seed of a startup is *NOT* cheap technology, disgruntled workers, and an anemic economy. While that portion of the Venn diagram represents the ideal soil for starting a company, the real seed of a startup is a need. Every successful startup […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged marketing, startup

Observations on my own Startup

By Dan Morrill on April 27, 2010

Starting a company is a hard thing to do, you will make mistakes, you will have wins, and you will have your good days and your bad days. Over the last year I have been working on my startup to take it to the next level, crossing the 40,000 a year gross line might seem […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged business, Entrepreneurialism, observations, seo, social networking, start up, startup

Dilbert, the Entrepreneur

Dilbert, the Entrepreneur

By Zoli Erdos on February 28, 2010

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Just for fun | Tagged dilbert, Entrepreneurship, humor, startup

Now We Know Why The City Never Sleeps

Now We Know Why The City Never Sleeps

By Zoli Erdos on February 25, 2010

Now we know why The Citi Never Sleeps: they are busy censoring their customers. If you are a Citibank customer and they dislike your blog, you may just get in trouble.  (Disclosure: I do have a Citi account… so am taking a risk by writing this post.) That’s just what happened to fabulis, a social […]

Posted in General | Tagged business banking, censorship, citi, citibank, fabulis, free speech, gay, privacy, Social network, startup

What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

By Mark Suster on January 11, 2010

A couple of years ago I read the popular book, “The Four Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss.  It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson, who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking.  If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Strategy | Tagged Entrepreneur Advice, Start-up Advice, startup, Startup Advice, Technology, VC | 2 Responses

Maybe it is time for you to do a startup

By Dan Morrill on January 8, 2010

This message over on FriendFeed from Mo Kargas caught my attention this morning because I am hearing it more and more from friends, family, and people who I follow in social circles on the internet. There is a common running thread through the opinions of many people I know that work, and that is a […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged anger, angst, Company, employee, employer, hire, Hiring finding a job, loyalty, mit venture lab, nwen, skills, startup

Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

By Mark Suster on November 30, 2009

Handling PR with VCs This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day.  He had pitched me […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged Entrepreneur Advice, pr, Raising Venture Capital, startup, Startup Advice, Technology, VC | 1 Response

Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

By Mark Suster on November 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 craze.  There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 wares.  […]

Posted in Entrepreneurship | Tagged startup, Startup Advice, Technology, VC, venture capital | 2 Responses

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