How feasible is your concept? Ideas are a dime a dozen. Refining an idea into a viable product, and launching a business, takes much more than a concept. To succeed,…

To succeed, founders must make critical decisions about launching and growing their companies. It can be devastating if they fail after heading too far down the wrong road. At the…

Off to the Races, Part 5 In my prior installments on Running Out of Cash, Burnout, and Market Dynamics, I discussed how you could control the pace by making sound…

Off to the Races, Part 4 Based on a study of over 1,000 seed-funded startups, running out of cash was the third leading factor resulting in company failure: Founder conflict…

Off to the Races, Part 3 Without a market, you won't have a business No amount of passion or technical knowledge can get around that simple fact. Of the 90%…

Off to the Races, Part 2 The initial installment of "Off to the Races" introduced the simultaneous races against Burnout, running out of money, market dynamics, and your competitors. This…

Earlier this year, I wrote a series - The Journey Parts 1-7 - focused on steps successful founders take to evolve from the idea stage to defining their business models, the…

You've come up with an excellent solution to a big problem experienced by many. Your company starts today. You, by default, are its founder, but what got you to this…

Don't let your passion and motivation keep you from thinking like a rocket scientist. New entrepreneurs become enamored with their concept and assume the market exists, and customers will buy.…

To compare the physical challenges of climbing Mt. Everest to those in the startup world is absurd. Unfortunately for first-time founders, the non-physical difficulties are similar. Every frozen corpse on…