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Below, I link to blog posts and other online resources that offer advice for entrepreneurs. My selections are tailored for consumer Internet startups, but should be helpful to teams in other sectors. There’s a lot of information here, so don’t try to digest everything in one session. I'll update this post periodically (and mark additional links as NEW), so please share suggestions via comments, email, or Twitter . Key Factors for Startup Success Essayist and programming language designer Paul Graham explains three things you need in a successful startup; summarizes startups in 13 sentences and in this longer post ; describes 18 mistakes that kill startups; and discusses the hardest lessons for entrepreneurs to learn
A Compilation of the Web's Best Advice for Entrepreneurs
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Conflicting Advice
Joe Heitzeberg, AKA Aquaman ( @jheitzeb ) is a 500 Startups SuperMentor and Chief Piston at MediaPiston , a new crowdsourcing platform for content projects (pre-launch). Prior to MediaPiston, Joe was the CTO at WhitePages.com and co-founder and CEO of Snapvine.com (acquired by WhitePages.com in June 2008). I polled some friends and fellow entrepreneurs and they all agreed — you’re going to receive 180-degree conflicting advice on just about every aspect of your company. I’m not just talking about advice from wantreprenuers, armchair quarterbacks, bankers-who’ve-never-run-companies and your mom. I’m also referring to advice from very experienced entrepreneurs with multiple successes under their belts. You’re the rainbow-chasing entrepreneur.
7 Business Principles That You Have to Follow
Principle #1: Take fewer risks as you get older When you are young, you should be doubling down because you don’t have much to lose. If you are in your early 20s or 30s, you probably don’t have as many commitments compared to people in their 40s or 50s.
As an entrepreneur, one gets to get too preoccupied with the tactical stuff on a daily basis. So much so that we miss the big picture. In many ways, that is the single biggest mistake we make. When thinking about the big picture, we need to remember a few things.
5 Things Every Startup Founder Should Know
If you expect to succeed in the thrill-a-minute, roller coaster ride of a startup, let me assure you it takes more than a good idea, a rich uncle, and luck. In fact, the idea is often the least important part of the equation. Investors tell me that they look at the people first, the business plan second, and only then at the idea. If you want some tips to beat the insurmountable odds, take a look at the following concepts, adapted from Richard C. Levy’s book, “ The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cashing in On Your Inventions .”
10 Business Commandments For Entrepreneurs (Build 20100722155716)
What I Wish I Knew Before I Started My Company
It’s not that every decision I’ve made has been terrible, or that I’ve brought the company to the brink of destruction, but it is true that the quantity of unexecuted opportunity has outpaced our growth substantially, and that’s frustrating. Thus, this post will explore some of the hard-won experience and advice I’ve received over the last 6 years – the kind I wish I’d known ahead of time. I’m also going to try focusing on things I haven’t heard repeated in hundreds of other “startup advice” articles. You Are Not the Customer
5 Tips for the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs — giffconstable.com (Build 20100722155716)
I just got back from speaking to 100 NYC high school kids about startups. The good folks at Global Kids asked me to say a few words at the NY Public Library Emoti-con festival , and I was more than happy to oblige and talk about one of my favorite subjects. I decided to give the kids some advice should they ever decide to pursue an entrepreneurial dream.
Jason Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Fabulis, a gay social network and previously founded Jobster and Socialmedian. He originally published this essay on his personal blog, Betashop . I’ve been founding and helping run technology companies since 1999. My latest company is Fabulis.com . Here are 57 lessons I’ve learned along the way.
57 things I’ve learned founding three companies
What Every Entrepreneur Can Learn from HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan « The Drew Blog
Here are some of the highlights of my interview with Brian Halligan, CEO and co-founder of HubSpot, one of fastest growing small businesses in the US. Identify an unmet need “I was a venture capitalist before I was doing HubSpot, and I was trying to get the portfolio companies to use modern marketing to create blogs to pull people in through the search engines, social media sites, and the blogosphere, and I had a hell of a time making that shift. I had to hire a ton of consultants and a ton of IT people and buy 6 different software packages, and it was very hard to pull off. So that was the gap I basically saw in the market and thought, ‘How do we pull all this stuff together into one simple package and then transfer as much knowledge we can from our heads to their heads and get them to shift the way they market?”” Eat your own dog food
7 Tools of Entrepreneurial Awesomeness
As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. Seth’s comments were particularly intriguing, as he attended UCSB but departed school before graduating in order to start a successful clothing company. You can watch the 11-minute excerpt from Seth’s talk below, in which expounds upon the Seven Tools Of Awesomeness.Guest post by Stella Huh, Founder of SecondLeap. The post originally appeared on Women 2.0 When I started on the entrepreneurial journey over two years ago, I had this naive notion that I could do everything on my own and that I needed to keep my ideas a secret.
9 Startup Lessons Learned From a Serial Entrepreneur | Startup America Partnership
Starting your first company
- make sure you have the right team. if you are doing a consumer web startup, you *need* someone on the team who is native web product person. if you are doing real tech, you need someone who is true native techie. - hire a good startup law firm (i like gunderson) and get standardized incorporation, vesting etc docs. it's worth it. (but try to only pay $5K or so with promise to pay more later when you get funding etc). - talk to everyone you can about your idea. collect feedback, criticism, maybe garner some allies along the way (even advisors which can help build your credibility).I've been an entrepreneur since 1998. I've been a retired entrepreneur fighting my addiction to new ventures since 2008. You would think I have more than 10 tips to share with you! We'll start with 10 and see where it takes us. I am counting on you, the readers, to share your tips so we can build out a library of Tips from the Trenches. We've all heard "Painkiller vs Vitamin" thrown at us by investors and we all get the high level concept.
Top 10 tips from an entrepreneur
What I Learned About Entrepreneurship Through 15 Angel Investments
Over the last 2.5 years I made 15 angel investments with my own cash. Although I have made a decent amount of investments, I don’t consider myself an “angel investor” because I don’t search for companies to invest in, I don’t lead financing rounds, and I don’t know how to read term sheets. When I first started investing I did it because I wanted to make more money, but I started enjoying investing in startups because it was teaching me a lot about entrepreneurship. For the last 9 years I have been an entrepreneur and over the years I heard both good and bad stories about investors. But I never really understood what investors went through until I started investing my own cash into companies that weren’t mine.I know prostitution is illegal, but that doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it.
Do Business Like A Prostitute
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