Posts by Dharmesh Shah

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Startups: Why What You Build Is Less Important Than Who You Build It With

startups February 14, 2007

I’m in the middle of reading “Founders At Work” by Jessica Livingston. The book is basically a collection of interviews with founders of some prominent software startups. What I like…

Why "Me Too" Startups Are Not Always A Mistake

strategy February 7, 2007

The “me too” label has been applied to a past when a company enters a crowded market of highly visible competitors. Examples abound, such as the remote storage category, RSS readers,…

Can Baseball Strategy Help Your Startup Hire Better?

strategy February 6, 2007

For those of you that are regular readers, you may know that in addition to this blog, I also co-author http://www.smallbusinesshub.com with Brian Halligan. Brian has a very…

Startup Founders: Are You Too Assertive, Or Not Enough?

strategy February 5, 2007

I came across an article recently titled “Researchers Uncover Best Bosses’ Success Secret”. I was hoping to find some revealing insight about what makes great bosses. Unfortunately, I…

Startups vs. The Big Guys: The Power Of Caring For Customers

strategy January 30, 2007

I’ve been working in and around startups for most of my professional career. A topic that often comes up in startups I’m advising or considering an investment in is: “How will the big…

Startups: How To Compete With Your Customers

January 24, 2007

Before we go too much further, let me explain a bit further what I mean when I say “competing with customers”. Although the concept sounds like it should be controversial (which…

How VCs Can Help Indian Software Startups

January 23, 2007

This article is a continuation of my series of articles on software startups in India (a topic I know very little about, but am hopeful that I can spark interesting conversation in…

Interview On StartupStories.com

January 18, 2007

While I was on holiday in India, Sudha Jamthe interviewed me for her site Startup Stories. I generally don’t like interviews, but I met Sudha at one of the recent Web Innovator’s…

Pithy Insights On Startup Marketing

January 12, 2007

This is the next installment in the ongoing “pithy insights” series. If interested, you might also want to check out “17 Pithy Insights For Startup Founders”. Marketing continues to…

Startup Marketing: How Useless Is Your Web Traffic?

January 11, 2007

My co-founder at HubSpot, Brian Halligan, posted an interesting article today on our partner blog titled “Advanced Internet Marketing: Turn The Pareto Principle On Its Head”. Brian’s…

Why Startups Can Innovate Better Than Microsoft, Apple and IBM

January 10, 2007

Don Dodge wrote a couple of great articles recently titled “Why Startups Innovate While Big Companies Incrementally Improve” and “What do the PC, Mac and Xbox All Have In Common”.…