Hyperink is an interesting startup focused on reinventing publishing in an e-book world. (We are not investors). They have published a number of great “blogs to books”, including ones from Jeff Atwood (co-founder of Stack Overflow), Sean Ellis (growth hacker …
Although Sharktank has been running reruns on Fridays the last few weeks, the show ran a Sharktank 2012 Holiday special on Tuesday night.
The most interesting company to present was The Coop, a modern, design-focused, indoor-outdoor children’s playspace in …
Yesterday afternoon, I had the opportunity to join the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, known as BASES, as a judge for its end of the year finale in which student-run start-ups compete for $150K in prizes. This was …
I’ve long held that two is a good number of (co)founders. One is difficult because you don’t have a true thought partner to talk to, or to tell you when you might be being crazy. To everyone else, you’re the …
One of the great stories of Silicon Valley is how Josh Hannah and Jack Herrick bought eHow’s assets at a distressed price after the company went out of business, turned it around with a very low cost model and sold …
Steve Blank had a great post last week about speed and tempo in startup decision making recently where he says:
… think of decisions of having two states: those that are reversible and those that are irreversible. An example
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This is a guest post by John Bautista. John is a partner in Orrick‘s Emerging Companies Group in Silicon Valley. John specializes in representing early stage companies.
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When entrepreneurs start a company, there are four things they …
Great post today from Sim Simeonov about being wise vs being smart that I’ll quote in its entirety since it is so short:
There is a set of interrelated concepts I’m fond of reminding entrepreneurs about but I’ve never found
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Monitor110 recently shut down after raising $20m over three rounds. One of the co-founders wrote a portmortem of Monitor110, highlighting 7 mistakes that the company made:
1. The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too
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Furqan Nazeeri recently pointed to an old Harvard Business Review article by John Hamm that claims to explain why entrepreneurs don’t scale. Furqan summarizes:
…the traits that help an entrepreneur succeed in the early days actually work against them as
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