Hubris Versus Humility: The $15 billion Difference
Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting i…
A Cautionary Tale from the Startup World
Marketing, entrepreneurship, and the ongoing study of how influence spreads (with the occasional interlude on travel, pasta, TV -- the important stuff) from founder Rand Fishkin.
Why You Haven't Launched
Photo by stevendepolo This post is an accusation. A call to arms. A sharp stick that says “get off your ass and make something happen.” But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. Every one of these reasons has haunted me at one time or another over the past 10 years. Many a moon a
You need to use social services to understand them
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Startup Advice in just three words
Short, fun but useful startup advice in just three words. Please add your own!
The Bowling Pin strategy
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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPOs, and VCs)
If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collap…
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It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are
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