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Claim Your Competitive Edge: Always Be First

January 27, 2012 by Small Biz Bee with 25 views

Lot of ways to make your small company competitive and gain a lead over the other guys battling it out for your clients. One of the best techniques is, when you have an innovation or strategy to offer consumers, be sure you arrive first. You’ll gain a competitive advantage that will be tough to overcome unless your product or service... [read more]

The Startup Basics: Cap Table

January 25, 2012 by Anthony Richardson with 43 views

I'm always happy to give out advice. However, anyone who knows me personally can tell you that I talk fast and usually don't slow down enough to ensure that the beginner understands some of the key terms I'm using before moving forward. [read more]

Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe

January 21, 2012 by Guy Kawasaki with 95 views

Here are two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are conservative.” “Jupiter says our market will be $50 billion in ten years.” “Several Fortune 500 companies are set to do business with us.” “No one else... [read more]

Small Business Interview with Hostile Bacon

January 20, 2012 by Rajeev Malik with 22 views

I had the opportunity to interview Miss Ren & Pete who operate an up and coming Shopify store named Hostile Bacon this week. [read more]

To Be a Successful Entrepreneur, Avoid These Mistakes (Video)

January 19, 2012 by Nina Kaufman with 112 views

In a short video interview with Carolyn Kepcher of Work Her Way, Nina Kaufman addresses 3 common errors entrepreneurs make in early stages. [read more]

25 Attributes for Success in Your Business

January 10, 2012 by Tushar Mathur with 85 views

You are your most important project! [read more]

Maximizing Capacity Utilization as a Startup Premise

January 6, 2012 by Chris Dixon with 31 views

In stark contrast to other major airlines, Southwest has been profitable for 40 years. If Southwest had one core “startup premise” it was this: for every second the planes sat on the ground, their airplanes and people were costing them money but not generating revenue. So Southwest designed an airline from the ground up that... [read more]

More On Recruiting Programmers To Your Startup

December 31, 2011 by Brad Feld with 68 views

Chris Dixon had an excellent post yesterday titled Recruiting programmers to your startup. The post, and the comments, are full of super useful stuff that every entrepreneur should read carefully. I sent the link for the post out to the Foundry Group CEO email list and it generated a great discussion thread, including one of the... [read more]

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5 Tips for Bootstrapping a College Web Based Business

December 30, 2011 by Greg Muender with 48 views

Greg Muender is President of Ticket Kick, a California company that helps drivers get <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com/red-light-camera-tickets/”>red light tickets</b>, <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com”>speeding tickets</b> and other traffic tickets dismissed by helping drivers through the <a href=”http://www.ticketkick.com/how-it-works/”>trial by written declaration</b> process. The company, which formally launched in 2010 after providing similar services since 2006, is the leading company in this space and growing rap [read more]

Q&A: We're Bad at Qs

December 27, 2011 by Seth Godin with 17 views

Seth Godin says we're good at the A, but not the Q. [read more]

Ten Tips for Choosing the Right Internet Business

December 26, 2011 by Tushar Mathur with 47 views

Final tip: It's easier to get into a business than out of it! [read more]

A 6 Step Process to Building a Successful Business

December 8, 2011 by Tushar Mathur with 101 views

Start smart, and the 5 following steps. [read more]

Guide to Renting Desk Space for Small Business

December 8, 2011 by Small Biz Bee with 28 views

When you’re starting out in business, or even if you’re already up and running, then the cost of office space is often one of the biggest headaches facing any venture. Little wonder then that so many people simply decide to work from home, because this can be a great way to cut costs and keep overheads to an absolute minimum. [read more]

Growth Curves of Startups

December 8, 2011 by Chris Dixon with 40 views

Pick whatever metric you want for gauging the success of a particular startup: profits, revenues, pageviews, etc. A graph I’d love to see is those metrics, graphed over time, for a wide variety of startups. From my experience, you’d be surprised how often those graphs show sudden growth. Something happens in the world (an “exogenous... [read more]

Boulder’s Entrepreneurial Weakness – Space

December 5, 2011 by Brad Feld with 14 views

Downtown Boulder is running out of space for its entrepreneurs. [read more]

How Do You Sell What No One Wants to Buy?

November 14, 2011 by Drew McLellan with 92 views

Most of us don’t have the luxury of selling ocean front property, the coolest laptop, the latest in tractor technology or porsches. But in most cases, while it may not be sexy to many — someone really wants it. But how do you sell something that no one has any enthusiasm or interest in buying? You know, things like…. funeral services, trauma clean up or bankruptcy law services. [read more]

Want To Be A VC? Start A Company.

November 2, 2011 by Fred Wilson with 56 views

Steve Blank has a great post up on his blog suggesting that VCs should require startup CEO experience in their partners' resumes. He quotes from me in that post but I'm not going to state which one came from me. You can guess if you want. [read more]

Proposal for a New Crowdfunding Model: Betting to Win

November 2, 2011 by Ross Dawson with 138 views

The other day I caught up for a coffee with Ryan Wardell, the founder of Project Powerup, a crowdfunding site focused on startups... [read more]

How a Week in Entrepreneurship Became Global

November 1, 2011 by Laurel Delaney with 28 views

Global Entrepreneurship Week starts soon, get ready! [read more]

Entrepreneur's Diary: Don't Be Scared to Ask

November 1, 2011 by Michael Keating with 78 views

Let me share with you a little story about dreams... One day a little boy became obsessed with skateboarding when his mom bought him his first Nash skateboard at the age of 7 for Christmas. Sure he struggled, falling all over the place, but you know his mom had him covered from head to toe in pads. [read more]

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