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
Inventing Demand
It’s no secret I own and run www.rentoid.com – but here’s a story you don’t know. The story of how I got it off the ground and got people to use the website. Rentoid had... [ READ POST ]
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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Bug tracking isn't a network-effect business
Facebook sucks you in because everyone you know is using it. You go to eBay to find something because you know someone is selling what you want to buy. Oracle wins in the enterprise because there are tons of experts and plenty of auxiliary software available. All these business rely heavily on the …
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…
$100,000 Revenues in last 12 months - wow
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The Psychology of Entrepreneurial Misjudgment, part 1: Biases 1-6
Marc Andreessen is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. He is an innovator and creator, one of the few to
It’s not that seed investors are smarter – it’s that entrepreneurs are
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Too small to fail: How startups can grow in recessions
These two little startups are exploding in sales, even in recession. Here's how they're doing it, and how you can too.