Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Current young adults have grown up hearing about Bill Gates as the paragon of success. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. Let’s set up a framework. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 5, 2014
She started with a story — a parable — as Jewish people are wont to do. Of course the dirty one took the shower.’ You should be asking yourself … how could two boys go down the chimney and one ended up dirty and the other ended up clean?!’ ’ ‘No. How can you say that?
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 23, 2015
Of course you could start your own company. As I talked about in “ Is it Time to Learn or Time to Earn ” – overwhelmingly the best economics go to those that start successful companies. But not everybody has the right skills to build a highly successful and valuable startup from scratch.
Eric Greenspan
FEBRUARY 2, 2010
Well, I caved and signed up. How they knew anything about us is beyond me, but that is where we got started. I told them I’d be happy to sign up if that rating was increased to an A. Your BBB has formed a strategic alliance to help save you money in your everyday costs starting immediately. Please advise.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
This is part of my Startup Advice series. Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. Somebody asks whether you plan to set up 401k’s and do contribution matching.
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