Cold Calling 100 Prospects A Day: One Entrepreneur’s Story
This week's posting on Forbes.com profiles a Naperville-area entrepreneur who [...]
What Is An Entrepreneur-In-Residence?
I've been EIR four times, so I get asked this [...]
When It Comes to Entrepreneurship, Be A Pig
In this week's posting on Forbes.com I take on the [...]
My Homage to Wrigley Field
In the summer of 1978, when I was 15 years [...]
How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round
Suppose your company has 8 million shares outstanding and you’re [...]
What Does an Entrepreneur-in-Residence Do?
Many people are fascinated by this question, and in my monthly [...]
Watch Out for Convertible Notes
Here is my latest post on Tech Cocktail about the hazards of [...]
Winning Business Plan Competitions is Not a Business Model
Is it me or are there business plan competitions on [...]
On Being Accountable
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about [...]
Strike While the Iron is Hot
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk [...]
The Best Advice I Ever Got
In today's guest post on Tech Cocktail I talk about [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Job Security
It seems appropriate on Labor Day to think about job [...]