Startup Founders: Are You Too Assertive, Or Not Enough?
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,…
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Startups vs. The Big Guys: The Power Of Caring For Customers
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…
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Startups: Should You Offer A Hosted and Non-Hosted Version?
December 31, 2006
This has been the longest time elapsed between posts (12 days) since this blog started over a year ago. Apologies for that. I’m traveling in India for the holidays (which is where I’m…
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Go West, Young Entrepreneur! Is The Valley Better For Software Startups?
December 12, 2006
I want to start out by saying that this is one of the more troubling articles that I’ve written for this blog.  The topic is something that is near and dear to my heart (i.e. Boston…
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Web 2.0: On Bubbles and Business Models
November 30, 2006
As I’ve noted on many earlier occasions, a lot of the best content on this blog are reader contributions via their comments.  If I were you, I’d be looking at some of the comments to…
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Startup Founder Compensation: Useful Results From A Recent Survey
November 29, 2006
One of the questions I get asked most often here at OnStartups surrounds the issue of how to determine compensation (cash and equity) for the founding team. As you might imagine, this…
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Commercializing Web 2.0: Hype vs. Reality
November 27, 2006
I’m scheduled to speak at the 9th annual MIT Venture Capital conference on December 2nd, 2006.  The title of the panel session I’m participating in is “Commercializing Web 2.0:  Hype…
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Startup Success: The Phenomenal Force Of Focus
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. …
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Startup Failures: Five Ways To Crash Your Startup, Which Will You Pick?
November 14, 2006
When talking about startups, it is interesting to talk about market forces, competition, product design and a variety of other things that founders believe they need to really…
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Thoughts On The Google / JotSpot Deal
October 31, 2006
I have just learned that Google bought JotSpot. I’ve been following JotSpot for a long time now and I have a lot of respect for Joe Kraus (JotSpot’s founder/CEO). Thoughts On The…
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Startup Success: The Market Rewards Specialists
October 31, 2006
I’ve been meaning to write this article for a while, but a recent post from Matt at Xobni titled “Do One Thing And Do It Well” reminded me about this topic, so felt this was as a good…
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