Business Basics Posts
Value Drivers: Building Reliable Systems to Sustain Growth
If your objective is to someday sell your company for the highest possible price, you would be well served by building reliable systems that can sustain the growth of the…
Startup Myths Exploded
Do economic cycles of boom and bust affect the number of startups? Most analysts have linked entrepreneurial activity to economic growth as though it was a given ... and conversely,…
Fit to be an Entrepreneur: 12 Tips
A large part of entrepreneurial success comes from perseverance: the ability to tirelessly grind it out, day after day. But if you aren't in great physical and mental shape, that's…
The Age of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship. It conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. Starting a tech company…
Do You Have a Venture Value Scorecard?
We can measure success in many ways. In business, one important measure is the value of the company. That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the…
What’s Your Company Worth?
Valuing a business is always an imprecise science, even with large-cap public companies. For example – Is the true value of a large public company based on its market price?…
Paul Graham’s Wisdom
If you are an entrepreneur, then Paul Graham is somebody you should listen to. You can read his essays at https://paulgraham.com/articles.html. Here are just a few of my favorite passages:…
Bootstrapping 101
From time to time, we will feature answers to entrepreneurs' questions here on our blog. QUESTION Dwayne in New York asks: "Being an entreprneur is all I have ever dreamed…
Setting Priorities
As an entrepreneur starting or growing a company, you have a million things to do. Every day. How do you decide what to focus on? There are two things to…