Posts by Dharmesh Shah

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Startups: Why Investors Aren't Writing You Checks

#HappyInvestor June 26, 2006

As a follow-up to what was a very popular article titled “Why Your Software Isn’t Selling”, I thought I’d reuse that conversational (and slightly humorous style) to look at another…

Startup Founders: Should You Divide Equity Equally?

I get this question fairly often from new startup teams. Often the teams consist of founders that were classmates, colleagues at a prior job, etc. The question is: Should we divide…

37signals: Feature Bloat vs. Business Bloat

As a quick overview, 37signals is a small web software company that creates a series of simple applications for project management and collaboration. Those that follow 37signals (the…

When Do Founders Make Good CEOs?

I attended the recent TieCON East conference in Boston (pretty good event). One of the panels at the conference was titled “When Do Founders Make Good CEOs?”. The panel was moderated…

Buying Internet Domains: Why Not To Fall In Love With Someone Who's Taken

I get this question all the time from startup founders: What’s the most I should pay for an Internet domain for my new company? My initial response is this: If possible, try not to…

Startup Diaries: Getting Your First Customer

I’ve had several requests since this blog started to write about more of my real-life experiences in startups. So, this is the first in a series of articles taken from my own personal…

How I Broke In To The Technorati 10,000

Apologies for the somewhat off-topic nature of this post. I generally make it a point to only write articles that I think would be interesting and useful to my readers. This one’s in…

Startups: Why Your Software Is Not Selling

As a regular reader of a number of online forums regarding software and startups, one question that seems to constantly recur is that of early sales (or lack thereof) for a software…

Online Advertising Revenue Buys Me A Chai Latte

Those of you that are regular readers of OnStartups.com may recall that I had turned on online ads on the site for about a week. As I noted back then, the motivation for this was more…

The Business Geek: Not An Oxymoron

When most of us think about a geek, they automatically think “technology geek” (or computer geek, or programming geek). This is particularly true of us geeks. We think our type of…

Crash Of The Web 2.0 Titans

This article has been inspired by a post by Erik Peterson in the OnStartups Forums titled simply “Crash 2.0?” (Erik has a talent for title brevity that I clearly lack). With Erik’s…