12 Tips to be Fit as an Entrepreneur
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…
Business Basics Posts
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. Paul Graham is an English-American computer scientist, writer and essayist, entrepreneur and investor. He is a…
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 entrepreneur 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…
What Kind of Lawyer Do You Need?
The type of lawyer you need depends on many variables. Let's assume you're a high-tech early-stage company looking for capital with realistic prospects of doing say $50 million or more…
Start Something
The most difficult part of starting a company is getting started. Most "entrepreneurs" are all talk and no action. How do you get started? Read a few good books, like…