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Why Immigrants Are More Likely To Start Companies

January 6, 2007

I came across an interesting article from the Seattle Times this week which cites a Duke University study. The study found that 25% of the technology and engineering companies started…

Startup Success: The Phenomenal Force Of Focus

strategy November 22, 2006

If you’ve been doing any amount of reading about startups (or for that matter, business strategy in general), you’ve probably heard at least a few times how important it is to focus.…

Data Points and Delusions Of Of A B-List Blogger

November 6, 2006

Today marks the anniversary of when I kicked off the OnStartups.com site. I thought it only fitting to look back and share some of the lessons and surprises from my first year of…

9 Pithy Insights On Venture Capital

November 3, 2006

The venture capital industry is alive (and doing well). Despite my ongoing efforts to convince early-stage entrepreneurs (particularly those building software companies) to forego…

Successful Selling For The Technically Gifted: Understanding The Pilot Project

October 24, 2006

As regular readers of OnStartups will know, my first startup was an enterprise software company. We sold high-end solutions for high-end prices, to high-end clients in the financial…

Leaving A Startup: It's Not Me, It's You

October 23, 2006

In my first startup I founded, I got really lucky. Most of the individuals I recruited were both extremely competent and extremely loyal (mostly to me, as the company didn’t have a…

Web 2.0 Valuations and the Google PageRank

October 20, 2006

I posted an article earlier today on the Small Business 2.0 internet marketing blog titled “Understanding Google PageRank”. Most of the OnStartups readership is likely already…

Startup Competition: Are Today's Venture Funded Rivals Savvier?

October 13, 2006

This is a follow-up to my article earlier this week titled “Competing With Venture Funded Rivals”. In response to that article, I received several comments. The following are two…

RSS As Competitive Analysis Tool

startups October 9, 2006

I posted a blog article this morning on our partner internet marketing blog (Small Business 2.0) titled “Understanding RSS: A Quick Guide For The Insanely Busy Executive”. I’m…

The Most Important Feature Missing In The Google Search API

hubspot October 5, 2006

At my startup, HubSpot, we have been working with the Google Search API to implement some of the features we think would help our customers. The Search API is reasonably robust in…

Startup Opportunities: Second Order Effects Of The Internet

October 2, 2006

Brian posted a recent article to Small Business 2.0 titled “Four Ways the Internet Is Transforming Small Business”. (The SB2 site is a partner site to this one and I co-author…