The Lawyer DC Startups Are Talking To
In many ways, Steve Kaplan is your typical lawyer. He graduated from the University of Virginia Law School and has worked for the international firm Pillsbury Law since 2005. He speaks very precisely: in response to various questions, he began by listing how many parts his answers would have: “two related challenges,” “three general categories,” [...]
In Search Of A New Kind of Lean Agile Startup
While talking to a three very smart guys I know about startups yesterday, it dawned on me that there are a lot of startup people who (especially prolific founders like me) have a copy of Steven Gary Blank’s Four Steps to the Epiphany book (some might call it the software startup founder’s bible) either on [...]
Why You Need A Co-Founder
By Ian Thiel
Economics defines comparative advantage thusly:
In economics, the law of comparative advantage says that two countries (or other kinds of parties, such as individuals or firms) can both gain from trade if, in the absence of trade, they have different relative costs for producing the same goods. Even if one country is more efficient [...]
Read This If You Are Hiring Right Now
There is a point in the market cycle for nearly every industry when the number of people with jobs to fill out paces the number of people looking for jobs. For web and software companies building web based products, that time is right now. If this is you then you should take a moment to [...]
What Is In A Job Title?
When the market starts to heat up and people start hiring like crazy the titles that people are given to keep them in a job or to entice them to take a job start to morph in interesting ways. People often neglect the basis for a title and end up creating titles that wind up [...]
Recommended Reading: ‘13 Things You Must Do Every Week As A Startup CEO’
As the founder of a software or web startup company there are a lot of people out there offering their advice. It is pretty rare when someone takes the time to distill a ton of that advice into a useful and inspiring form. Jason Goldberg did just that with his blog post titled ‘13 Things [...]
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 [...]
