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Why Students Make Great Entrepreneurs

Over the past dozen or so years, I've been involved in about a dozen startups, either informally (as a friend or advisor) or formally as a founder or investor. In my experience, I've…

Startups And The 900 Pound Gorilla: Why Strategic Partnerships Aren't

Given the strange title of this article, let me provide a little bit of background so you can figure out if this article might be of interest to you. The “900 pound gorilla” is a term…

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…

Tech Geek + Biz Geek = Match Made In Startup Heaven

In my prior article, I wrote about the concept of the business geek. This article was pretty well received and I got a lot of responses from Business Geeks but hadn’t really thought…

Bootstrap Startups: Spending Money In The Right Places

For those not familiar with the term “bootstrapped startups”, it generally refers to companies that are started with minimal capital. One of the great things about software startups…

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…