How Hard Core Are You As A Startup Founder?
Last night, while having dinner with the panelists for tomorrow night’s VIP Social Matchbox event, one of the founders who was there asked the rest of us whether we were going to go back to hacking after the dinner. This was around 8:30pm. The question stood out because not everyone replied, I plan to. This [...]
2011 Is The Year To Focus on Your Startup, Not on Meetups
Ever year we all make new years resolutions. They usually involve making more money, getting in better shape, or making something in our life a bit better. This year I think it is worth point out that there is an unspoken new years resolution for 2011 is as follows: ’2011 Is The Year To Focus [...]
The Hard Line Between Hacker and Serious Founder
This past week we hosted the first Social Matchbox Startup Garage Series event in Tysons Corner. The event was inspired by our first events held back in 2007 and 2008 where there was a very loose standard applied to determine who was allowed to present. The open mic format we use for the Startup Garage [...]
13 Startups Spoke At The First Social Matchbox Garage Series Event
Yesterday we kicked of the brand new Social Matchbox Startup Garage Series at TeqCorner in Tyson’s Corner, the birthplace of the popular Social Matchbox Startup Launch Series event which has helped launch many of the Washington area’s hugely successful startup companies including OPower (Positive Energy then), Living Social (Hungry Machine then), *ClearSpring, Webs.com (Freewebs then), [...]
Entrepreneurs Should Be Kings Of Common Sense
Last night, over dinner, I heard some of the best advice for entrepreneurs that I’ve heard in a good while. It wasn’t from a former founder who made it big or a big deal author. It was from a friend of the family’s who works in the non-profit space here in Washington, DC. She said [...]
The Case For A Lean Agile Social Circle
You may recall recent posts on here about successful founders and the company they keep, and about the types of people who are more prone to succeed than others. In an unrelated post a few days back, Lean Agile Startup evangelist Eric Ries wrote a post titled “Stop lying on stage” in which he said [...]
More Than Meets The Eye: DC Startup Founders
When people compare startups in the DC area to startups in the bay area I think it is a common thing for people to skip right over the question of scale. A little under two months ago one of our favorite poster boys for get rich startup founder success stories sold yet another startup company [...]
