100% Of The Time It’s 90% Mental
I love the week between Christmas and New Year’s as [...]
Startup Founders: You Need More Money Than You Think
Startups go out of business for only one reason. That [...]
A Bias for Action
The way I see it, the best entrepreneurs are decisive [...]
Convertible Equity–An Idea Whose Time Has Come
1932 Nash Advanced Eight Convertible Sedan (Photo credit: aldenjewell) [...]
Impedance Mismatch
(Photo credit: nerovivo) I’ve written and talked about [...]
Testimony from House Review of Innovation Corps Program
Earlier today I got the opportunity to provide witness testimony [...]
Principle Three: Leverage Private Money
Continuing with the Nine Guiding Principles, onto Principle Three. [...]
Culture Clash: Scientists vs. Entrepreneurs
Much of the work that I have done involves transferring [...]
Why A Startup is Like Chutes and Ladders
You know Chutes and Ladders–the board game (Snakes and Ladders [...]
Get Out of the Building
We're a few weeks into the Lean LaunchPad Class, NSF [...]
Principle Two: Get the Manufacturing Right
You can't sell it if you can't make it. Most [...]
Principle One: It’s All About the Markets
Cover of The Four Steps to the Epiphany [...]
Questions
What are we going to make?Who are we going to [...]
Nine Guiding Principles for Starting a Technology Business
In June of this year I gave a talk at [...]
Job Security
It seems appropriate on Labor Day to think about job [...]
Get the RED Out
Anyone who has ever been around entrepreneurs and early-stage companies [...]
The Importance of Scaling
A watershed moment happened to me in December 2009 following [...]
Hot and Spicy Lemonade
My first entrepreneurial venture, back in 1993, was a barbecue [...]