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Startup Founders: Are You Experiencing Enough Pain?
September 1, 2006
Auhtor's Note: The original title for this post was "Startup Pain: If It Doesn't Kill You, It Just Hurts A Lot". I changed it because I thought the original was trying to be overly…
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Web 2.0 Startup Kiko Sells On eBay: $258,100
August 26, 2006
For those of you that have been watching the auctioning process, the results are in. Kiko sold its assets on eBay for what seems to be $258,100. Original article I wrote on the topic:…
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Notes from Startup Success 2006 with Guy Kawasaki
August 26, 2006
I listened to a video segment for the Churchill Club’s “Startup 2006” event moderated by Guy Kawasaki and featuring a panel of entrepreneurs including Reid Hoffman, the CEO of…
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Why It Takes So Long To Raise VC Funding: The Emperor Has No Close
August 25, 2006
If you’ve ever attempted to raise VC for a startup, you likely know that it is a long process that takes months. One thing I’ve found particularly intriguing is that outside of…
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Four Ways Competitors Can Hurt Your Startup -- Without Competing
August 23, 2006
In an article I wrote last week about the demise of Kiko (a web-based startup in the calendaring space), I hinted at the possibility that one of the reasons for Kiko’s demise may have…
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Valuations 2.0: Thoughts On The Kiko Auction
August 21, 2006
My article last week on the demise of Kiko got a fair amount of visibility (not sure why, as the article itself wasn’t particularly insightful). Guess news trumps nuance in the…
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Hindsight 2.0: Lessons From A Failed Web 2.0 Startup
August 16, 2006
Certain circles are buzzing with the news that Kiko is on sale on eBay. I first heard the news last week, but it wasn’t public until today so I didn’t want to write about it. For…
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Startups: Tips for Talking About Competitors
August 14, 2006
Just about every startup founder at some point or another will need to discuss competitors. This is particularly true when talking to potential investors, such as angels or VCs. How…
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Startups: Forget The Fortune 500, Target The Fortune 5,000,000
August 9, 2006
Note: This article was derived from a chapter of my MIT graduate thesis titled “On Startups: Patterns and Practices of Contemporary Software Entrepreneurs”. This paper was submitted…
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How To Watch A Startup Presentation
August 7, 2006
This article is in response to an excellent article Paul Graham posted recently titled “How To Present To Investors”. If you are the founder of an early-stage startup and expect to…
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Winning The Web 2.0 Lottery: Picking The Right Numbers
August 7, 2006
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I'm somewhat of a skeptic when it comes to the viability of many of the "Web 2.0" businesses out there (note: I use…
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