Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

It’s quite amazing how many founders and company leaders are making amazing new technical solutions or products but seem to have difficulty explaining the core narrative of the product themselves. Now, if the person who built the product has a hard time explaining it, then just imagine how hard it is for others to understand […]

On the “VCs turned Entrepreneurs” panel (subtitle “actually Entrepreneurs turned VCs turned Entrepreneurs”) at Mini Seedcamp London last week, Max Niederhofer let lose some of his wisdom regarding the perpetually pitching entrepreneur. In his view, instead of “always be closing“, Entrepreneurs should never be pitching investors out right. Instead, a “oh, we are moving along […]

At the end of the day, I’ve really come to believe that you can’t predict success based on where a missile is pointed pre-launch.  Instead you have to assess the quality of the targeting system (the team) and the density/size of targets (the market). And hope that the missile you launch finds a true target […]

Chris Dixon with a smart post on when to shift focus: Ask yourself: if you started over today, would you build the same product?  If not, consider significant changes to what you are building. […] You aren’t throwing away what you’ve learned or the good things you’ve built. You are keeping your strong leg grounded […]

Chris Dixon with a smart post on when to shift focus: Ask yourself: if you started over today, would you build the same product?  If not, consider significant changes to what you are building. […] You aren’t throwing away what you’ve learned or the good things you’ve built. You are keeping your strong leg grounded […]