Being a founder is difficult work. It is frustrating at time hopeless and only for a lucky few worthwhile. Sometimes in your darkest moment you need a balance between cheerleading and reality. Other founders who have walked that path and shared that door with you; Other stories with different endings to help you keep you sanity. Jessica Livingston at Y-Combinator …Read the Rest
Reading List
Startup Guide: The startup crash course in 7 posts or less
April 16, 2010
For the last four weeks I had been thinking about putting together a basic reading guide for mentees that would help them move forward and remove me as a bottleneck. A collection of short to the point posts that introduce them to a basic framework that many of us take for granted and most of us have never seen or …Read the Rest
Startup Mode: Reboot goes on sale online, gets featured at CIO, the Standard, Network World or the Ides of March
April 2, 2010
What a week it has been. Last night was the first night in 7 days that I slept for 7 hours. My average naptime for the week was an astonishing 4 hours, excluding the time I spent power napping waiting for the red traffic light to change to green, on hold waiting for customers to pick up their phone and …Read the Rest
Startup Guide: Linking Pain, Features, Pricing, Segments and Reach
April 2, 2010
Teaching entrepreneurship is difficult. Teaching it to 50 smart kids can at times get rough. Teaching it to 150 students distributed across 50 groups with very interesting ideas across 25 odd domains will make you get up at 4 am in the morning after catching a few winks past midnight just so that you can keep up. The gist of …Read the Rest
Startup Guide: The product feature grid – describing your product
April 2, 2010
We tried to put a process around describing our customer in my last post. Can we do something similar for products? The tool that I like and use regularly is the product feature grid. No rocket science just basic common sense. Here is what it looks like At the top of the grid we put in five basic elements used …Read the Rest
