New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and co-founder of Superpowered, Patrick Vlaskovits, talks about how to apply growth hacking and lean startup principles to your company to find product-market fit and avoid common mistakes and pitfalls many entrepreneurs fall into. From coming up with startup ideas to evaluating them and marketing them, […]
I am writing a startup thriller novel right now called The Term Sheet. It is like Dan Brown meets Mark Cuban meets Edward Snowden. It has a lot of startup advice, but is full of thrills, mysteries, twists and a few near-death experiences. The traditional way to write a novel is to spend months, sometimes […]
Many founders hope to one day take their company public on the stock market and have it be worth over $1B+ in market cap. To Dave Hersh, this dream is a reality with Jive Software, a company he founded and lead for 8 years and through 3 different business models. In one of the 3 […]
When I started out as a programmer and first tried to raise venture capital, it was a frustrating process (to say the least). There were sleepless nights, tons of travel, and the worst part was I couldn’t tell how I was doing while I was pitching. For months it seemed like nobody was interested. I […]
If you got a Standford MBA and then worked as an investment banker… what would be your next career move? Michelle Miller decided to write a novel called The Underwriting. But she didn’t just write a novel and hope to get traditionally published, she treated her novel as a startup: She raised investment Secured brand […]
Have you heard of the one where you throw an entrepreneur off a 50 story building? His investor checks in with him at every floor to see how things are going. “49th floor, everything’s great … 48th floor, great view … 47th floor, gaining great speed … 46th floor, couldn’t be better …” There is […]