What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Spin-Offs
You would think that a startup spun off by a mature parent company would have a considerable survival advantage over the lowly startup. Yet spin-offs often fail in the real…
You would think that a startup spun off by a mature parent company would have a considerable survival advantage over the lowly startup. Yet spin-offs often fail in the real…
I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is…
If you have had some success in a business, I’m sure you bristle just like I do when someone says “You were just lucky…” I’m a strong believer that we…
Most of the time, I’m all about providing encouragement and inspiration to entrepreneurs. They need it and they deserve it because entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of our economy. But every…
All true entrepreneurs operate off a set of tenets that are built into their psyche or drilled into them through training and by mentors. These are represented by sayings like…
If I had a dollar for every time someone has said to me, “One of these days, I’m going to start my own company,” I’d be rich. If this day…
If your first startup fails, you are in good company. Most startups fail; therefore, most entrepreneurs fail on at least one attempt. Investors agree that an entrepreneur who has never…
Founders almost always cite lack of money as the reason for failure, but if you look deeper, I believe the reason is more often about dysfunctional people and leadership. Sometimes…
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. So once in a while,…
Where did this pervasive sense of entitlement in our culture come from? I’ve written about this before, but I was surprised again recently at a conference for startups when a…