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Slow and steady wins the race. It's a phrase often used in business.
Startups: It's Not a Race, It's Parkour - Ken Bautista - creative entrepreneur - on startups, games and learning, and my city
8 things I wish I knew before starting a business | VentureBeat (Build 20100722155716)
(Editor’s note: Don Rainey is a general partner at Grotech Ventures. He submitted this column to VentureBeat.)
(Editor’s note: Niel Robertson is the founder and CEO of Trada. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Everything I learned in business I learned from these 3 charts | VentureBeat
5 things I “knew” (or should have known) before starting a company, but didn't fully understand until now | WePay
I founded WePay with Bill Clerico in August 2008, with the simple goal of making it easy for groups to collect and manage money online. We were accepted in YCombinator in May 2009, and raised just under $2 million from August Capital , Max Levchin, and a few other well-know angel investors last December. I can’t say much about running a company post-financing because we have only been doing it for a few months, and to be honest, I haven’t really had the opportunity to reflect on it.
6 Lessons from the Startup CFO
Mark MacLeod is known across Canada as the "startup CFO" so much so that his twitter handle is @startupcfo and his website is www.startupcfo.ca . Presently Mark works with Feshbooks, Tungle, Akoha and others. At Toronto's SproutUp, Mark made a presentation to the predominantly tech startup crowd about some of the common mistakes people working at startups usually make.
Author: Gerrid Smith (Todd’s 24 year old son) Six years ago, when I graduated from high school, I had no clue exactly what I wanted to do with my life—but I knew I was an entrepreneur. Because I knew college wasn’t for me at this time, I decided to spend the next year researching every possible business that might be a fit for me.
What I’ve Learned as a Young Entrepreneur
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview Gail Goodman last week at the Momentum Summit at MIT Sloan. Gail is the CEO of Constant Contact , an email marketing company that was founded during the “boom days” of the Internet, made it through the post-bubble apocalypse, and is now a publicly traded company and a market leader. I originally planned to ask Gail a bunch of standard interview questions but then I realized what a missed opportunity that would be.
8 Startup Lessons from Constant Contact
10 things I’ve never heard a successful startup founder say
I built this software for myself, and then it turned out a million people wanted it exactly how I originally envisioned it.
I'm currently coaching a program called Summer of Startups . It's an ambitious project started by student-run organizations in Helsinki to encourage students to create a startup during the summer rather than taking a summer job.
10 Lessons From Finland's Summer of Startups
by Jason Calacanis In May I "ghosted" my Facebook page based on my feelings that Facebook was a bad actor, not worthy of our trust and very bad for our industry.
What I Learned from Zuckerberg's Mistakes
What Lucky People Do Different
Today’s guest contributor is former Wall Street Journal and Fortune writer, Erik Calonius .I was reading some articles recently about the top reasons why businesses fail and when I couple that with what I’ve learned from all my interviews with experts I would say without a doubt the 2 biggest factors to business success are; 1) Typically successful launches don’t front load. Statistically, the biggest failures in business are restaurants and contractors.