Recommended Reading: ‘The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak’
As a startup founder I find myself looking for practical advice and inspiration for how to improve how the odds of our team’s success. This article titled ‘The Way I Work: Paul English of Kayak’ that was recently published in Inc. magazine really hit the spot. He shares some really fantastic insights about how Kayak [...]
Founders Should Set Realistic Goals
Realistic goal setting supported by metrics is one of the most important things that a founder can learn to do. If a startup founder doesn’t learn to set achievable goals then their team will quickly dwindle because people need to see that their efforts are leading to something tangible. This applies as much to sales [...]
The Role Of Trust In Business
If it was up to me there would be no need for lawyers and contracts in business. You make a deal with someone and both parties honor that deal. Unfortunately, we often need contracts and agreements to spell out the terms and expectations that we verbally work out. It is when the parties to agreements [...]
Keep Your Eye On The Ball
This morning I had a conversation with an active participant in the startup community here in the Washington area. We talked about life, places, startups, and eventually even the startup community. About ten percent of the time we spent involved talking about building startup products. At some point this hit me and we discussed focusing [...]
Pattern Recognition for Entrepreneurs, not just VC’s
by Don Rainey (blog)
VC’s use “pattern recognition” to assess the viability of deals. Pattern recognition is a method of seeing commonalities between a current , novel concept and previous ideas. And while it is a great tool commonly used by Venture Capitalists, the pattern recognition tool is mostly ignored by entrepreneurs. [...]
