Startup Lessons In The First Year of Operation
# Focus, focus, focus. Don’t chase every good idea that comes along, focus on a core product or service and, iterate around it. Simon Olson # Don’t hire in anticipation…
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Doing Business by the Books: 6 Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses
In business, as in life, the things that often matter most are the most difficult to do. That’s why so many people put off drawing up Wills and Living Trusts,…
Ron Conway On Startups
Ronald Conway is an angel investor often described as one of the “super angels. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments…
10 Big Steps From Idea To A Winning Startup
Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor After the idea, it’s all about execution. I often hear from investors that a great…
Startup Founder Lessons: Sarah Prevette On Sprouter Lessons
Sarah Prevette is the CEO & founder of Sprouter. Sprouter is where founders get help with their startups. Sprouter allows entrepreneurs to get curated answers to small business questions from…
Startup Founder Lessons: Aaron Franklin On Getting To Beta
Guest post written by Aaron Franklin, co-founder of LazyMeter.com an application designed to end procrastination and forgetting. LazyMeter has now been in beta for 7 weeks. Our first cohort of…
10 Workspaces In New York That Share Elements of Incubators
Freelance, writers and entrepreneurs can work from anywhere and they tend to operate from coffee houses and coffee shop/cafés.These startup workspaces provide a collaborative and conducive environment where you can…
The DOs of Building A Startup Team
Even if you are the most technically advanced person or the savviest CEO-wannabe, you need people to run the business. You can’t do everything, because realistically, your skills have limitations.…
How Do Entrepreneurs Think About Problems?
We all encounter problems, but we don’t all handle them same way. Among problem solving approaches, one of the more unique – and effective – is the entrepreneur’s. Unlike most…
9 Ways To Use A Startup Website To Build Trust
Without trust most of your marketing efforts will not give you’re the kind of results you expect. Once you are online it is very crucial to gain trust if you…
6 Negative Impacts of Entrepreneurial Passion
Everyone knows that passion is an essential ingredient of being a successful entrepreneur. But John Bradberry in his book talks about the pitfalls of passion or what he calls the…
Elance Launches Startup Cloud: Best Practice Strategies For Startups
Elance, a platform for online employment, today introduced Startup Cloud, a new onramp resource that provides proven tactics, best practice strategies and advice to power startups tapping into the human…
18 Rules For Web Startup Success
Starting a business requires some level of skill and financial planning. Whatever your reason for starting a business, and whatever type of business you are starting-there are some universal best…
Andreessen Horowitz On Startups
The most important attribute required to be a successful founding CEO is leadership All CEOs should work on the vision component of leadership To create the original innovation to start…
How Much Money Should You Request For Your Startup
Martin Zwilling is a veteran startup mentor, executive, blogger, author, tech professional, and angel investor Startups ask me “How much money should I ask for?” The simple answer is the…
Startups In Today’s Economy
For all the talk of small businesses and startups driving the US economy, just how important are they? According to data from the Kauffman Foundation and the US Census Bureau,…