Here’s a great post-mortem post by Brett Martin, former CEO of startup Sonar, shared with me by a friend . This post focuses how to navigate the crazy market and capital signals your startup will receive through the founding, funding and growth process. Some signals are true and
Here’s my most recent presentation, prepared for the SpringBeta 2014 Conference in Oklahoma City, an event sponsored in part by LaunchOklahoma. 5 Steps to Traction for your Startup in 5 Minutes:
I was honored to speak this year at the 2013 Dallas Digital Summit as a member of the “Ramping to Success” panel. Full details, as well as my extended notes, here: Startup Growth Tips for 2014: Four Questions from the “Ramping to Success” Panel Here
How determined are your employees to get their job done? Here’s a real, practical case study from today. I needed to send two checks to a company. One check now and one check a couple of months ago. One wrinkle: The envelopes are going to
Cool SXSW talk from my buddy, @wubbahed (Will Turnage), VP Technology & Invention at RG/A. How cool a title is that?! And he gets to give talks about brainstorming at SXSW! Description from Will: "They finally posted the audio recording of my SXSW talk this
So, you want to “do a startup”? First big, huge, life-changing question: Should you bootstrap it, or VC it? And I’m about to say something entirely heretical. In a world where that question typically gets what I call a “religious” response – on par with
Time management is worthless. It really is. I’ve spent plenty of “time” trying to get things done, solve problems and create value. But often, the most productivity comes from a few hours here and there during which I am energetic and focused. So, don’t think
The OkcCoCo has now posted the full video of my recent presentation to the Bootstrapper’s Beer: “Business Models for Web 2.0 Startups: What works now?” (Be warned: I’m at my loquacious best… This is the full 1.5 hour presentation. I’ll try to put a series
I judged the Oklahoma Governor’s Cup business plan competition a couple of weeks ago. It was 8 hours of tough, solid work, but it was rewarding. Meeting enthusiastic groups of students presenting promising businesses – some of which are already well on their way to launch
The new “Startup 101” category in this blog is a series of posts specifically aimed at the very early stage business and the new entrepreneur. These posts are intended to help the novice to quickly grasp the basics and to answer many of the questions that