The Difference Between Product Startup Founder and Entrepreneur Is Not Just Marginal
If you know me then you know that I’m a startup guy through and through. I launched my first online* startup around 1990 back before I knew that HTML existed. My second software startup was ten years later in 2000, followed by my third software startup which technically started in 2010. During the years between [...]
Will The Real Washington Investors Stand Up
For the last four years I have listened to a ton of web and software product startup founders and teams complain about how bad things are when it comes to raising money for their startups here in the Washington area. I have heard stories about the pitches, the investors, the angel clubs, the funds, the [...]
8.47% of investors I spoke to, funded AppMakr
By Daniel Odio
I just ran an analysis with the help of Brendan Baker, an Oxford MBA candidate, that shows that 8.47% of the potential investors I had discussions with ended up funding AppMakr’s $1MM convertible note.
Here is a blurred-out list of everyone I spoke to – and by “spoke to” I mean I had either [...]
Outsourcing It One Piece At A Time
Ok, I don’t endorse outsourcing IT or anything else that I can hire someone really smart to do in house. But a lot of founders that I talk to outsource major aspects of their business. A lot of people I know outsource the data entry of invoices while others outsource the entire beta project they [...]
Recommended Reading: ‘8 Startup Lessons from Constant Contact’
This post on David Cancel’s blog titled ‘8 Startup Lessons from Constant Contact’ provides some useful insight for early stage Software As A Service (SaaS) startup teams.
Recommended Reading: Early Customer Acquisition
Today I read a this interview related to early customer acquisition. The interview goes into the subject of customer acquisition vs. product evaluation and offers some great insights that early stage product founders may want to read. The interview is most relevant to B2B software products.
Should I Outsource My Startup Development To A Middleman Website Like ODesk?
I get asked all the time whether or not using an outsourcing middleman website like Odesk, RentaCoder, or elance rates a try or not. I have to admit that the thought has crossed my mind before. I have even had conversations with people who have had a go at Odesk and Elance. I’m not sure [...]
