Posts Tagged ‘Entrepreneurship’

When asked in a recent interview with YoungEntrepreneur.com for a piece of advice for young entrepreneurs, I answered “dream big but act lean”. This is critical advice. Wikipedia defines an entrepreneur as “a person who has possession of a new enterprise, venture or idea and is accountable for the inherent risks and the outcome”. An [...]

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Competition for start-ups is getting stiff. Requirements for funding and expectations of traction increasing, even incubators are flooded with hundreds of applicants. Rejecting business plans and startups is hard work and surely a tough task, here’s a very small lesson: don’t email over 60 entrepreneurs and forget to BCC them.

Last year a website community called Angellist launched, helping match start-ups with interested angel investors and the site has gotten more popular as start-ups are closing anywhere from $50k to $3MM in funding. The bar is set high for getting an Angellist recommendation which helps investors feel comfortable if they are reviewing a start-up that [...]

New changes to the Startup Visa make it more flexible for entrepreneurs to come from abroad, but will they?

Hype over Silicon Valley is dying down and the Social Curtain is beginning to open up.

Stop updating your powerpoint find the support that really matters. Pitchdecks don’t write checks, people do.

Lean Start-up philosophies are all the rage for the last few years, its almost seen as a sense of pride of how cheaply your team can build features and products and pivot when necessary but here’s the problem: lean start-up teaches instant gratification not long term value

The energy in Silicon Valley is definitely contagious but are you moving over for the right reasons? Many start-ups have been successful outside the valley, here are some other areas to think about when looking at places to “start-up”

In the days following the launch of usehipster.com, over 10,000 people registered without a product even being released. It was the result of a clever landing page which has now been duplicated by internet entrepreneurs worldwide and it’s in the process of already jumping the shark.

Be grateful for those deals that didn’t go through. In many cases the deals that don’t close are often to your benefit and hidden blessings for later.