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…
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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…
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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…
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Inside Venture Capital: Do VCs Make Less Than You Think?
January 27, 2007
For some reason, I find myself reading a fair number of VC blogs. This is mostly out of curiosity. Though I’ve never raised venture capital for a startup before, I find the industry…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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”.…
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Why There Aren't More Software Startups In India
January 8, 2007
These days, you can’t help but read about the economic growth that is going on in India. Lots of people are talking about the huge emerging middle-class, the overall growth in their…
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