After my company was acquired a year ago by a large Fortune 150, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what made this different from my other ideas. Before I started AppFog, I had tried dozens of terrible ideas that all failed miserably. I had bought a website that sold WordPress plugins. I […]
Eliot Peper is an entrepreneur, an investor, an advisor… and now an author of startup fiction. His first book, Uncommon Stock (published by Brad Feld’s new publishing company FG Press) at its surface seems like an uncommon next step for most entrepreneurs. However if you treat a novel like a startup, you can understand the […]
This week is a special treat. We are interviewing one of my startup mentors and close personal friends, Chris Tacy. He is not only a brilliant strategist, but he has had 4 successful start experiences in a row with 4 successful exits and no (major) failures. A rare occurrence in startups. He has some surprising […]
Ryan Holiday’s new book, The Obstacle is the Way ($3.99 eBook) is a life philosophy non-fiction book from someone I greatly admire. Ryan Holiday is the guy behind Tucker Max and the head of marketing for American Apparel. You may or may not like Tucker Max or American Apparel ads, but you have probably heard […]