Tomasz Tunguz did a small survey on investment rates, sorted by geographic location, using some CrunchBase data. As he admits in the blog post, this is a very small data set and some of the cities have so few startups in the data (Houston with
An excellent post from my friend and fellow entrepreneur, Bryan Hassin: The Green Knight: Startups Should Never Pay to Pitch. An excerpt: These pay-to-pitch scams start off innocently enough. There is often no mention of a fee up front. Then, if you “apply” (a classic
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:
Here’s one of the better articles I’ve seen on the Bitcoin phenomenon: Bitcoin Is Pointless as a Currency, But It Could Change the World Anyway | Enterprise | WIRED. I’m not sure I agree with his conclusion. Read that through, and then come back. Here’s
My appearance at the Dallas Digital Summit got picked up in Success Magazine’s online blog. They especially liked my comments on picking the right people: People Are Everything “Finding the right people is really the biggest challenge and the most important thing you’re going to
Recent interview we did for the VentureSpur blog with highly successful entrepreneur, Mike Yonker. I have to say, Mike is not only a great entrepreneur and a good interview subject – he’s also a really nice, generous guy. He’s exuberant about helping entrepreneurs. Inside the VentureSpur
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
This interview with Simonyi sums up my entire philosophy about software! Nice, brief interview on software’s next frontier – The mundane: Software’s Final Frontier: A Conversation With Charles Simonyi – James Fallows – The Atlantic.
on McNaught is an Attorney & Entrepreneur. In 2011, Jon opened JPM Consulting Solutions. His firm currently serves dozens of clients in multiple states by providing results-oriented business and legal solutions to business and individuals. Recently Jon responded to our interview survey. Find out what
Yep. That’s right. The Top 10 Investor Pitch FAILS! in 5-minutes – as presented by me, on behalf of VentureSpur at the 2013 SpringBeta conference in Oklahoma City: