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What Firing an Employee may Say about You 22 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
A big thank you to Bretton Putter of the Forsyth group for Feedback and Editorial Input - http://www.forsythgroup.com/about/the-team/ This post is not about how to hire or how to fire someone. It is ...
What’s Your Real Customer Acquisition Cost? 15 Jul 2013 | 01:50 pm
A big thank you to Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital and Juan Cartagena of Traity for feedback and editorial review. Just as driving with your eyes closed is dangerous to your health, so is acquir...
10 Tips for Succeeding in a Startup Accelerator Program 5 Jul 2013 | 08:49 pm
Article originally published on the SiliconRoundabout on July 4th, 2013 Accelerators come in all different shapes and sizes. With many new Accelerators coming into existence within the last few years...
The Basics, Pros & Cons, Points to Consider, and The Modelling of Convertible Notes 27 Jun 2013 | 08:17 pm
Special thanks to Dale Huxford from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP for edits and additional legal review. The “Convertible Note” gets lots of attention in the blog-o-sphere as an alternative to t...
How Great Leaders Inspire Action 19 Jun 2013 | 02:00 pm
Why is it that some leaders are able to inspire action better than others and keep their employees motivated through the process of innovating? Check out the following video from Simon Sinek
In Which Country Should I Incorporate My Company? 17 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm
An important decision that companies often ask when starting a company outside of the USA is ‘where should I incorporate?’. The reason why this question comes up is often because there are a series of...
The Product / Market Fit Cycle 3 May 2013 | 07:19 pm
Product / Market fit can be loosely defined as the point in time when your product has evolved to the point that a market segment finds it attractive so that you can grow your product / company scalab...
On Growth, Virality Loops, and Customer Acquisition 15 Apr 2013 | 06:15 pm
Everyone loves a personality test. Whether for fun, or to better asses our skills as part of choosing a career, we all love hearing about how others perceive us, how we function, and how we are likely...
7 reasons for entrepreneurs to avoid tranched investments 4 Apr 2013 | 01:20 pm
Originally published on Venturebeat on April 3, 2013 3:44 PM Investments, like the ocean, can come in waves, but that doesn’t mean they should. A “tranched investment” is an investment that is split ...
What the VCIC can teach us about Finding Good Investors. 27 Mar 2013 | 05:37 pm
Finding an investor for your startup is hard, and as I partly covered in my last post: What Tier is your Investor (or what to look for in an investor)? It involves taking a lot of meetings and dealing...
