To raise money for my college education, I spent two summers working for a small tech company in my home town. It was a bootstrapped company that started in the owner’s house a decade before. To protect the innocent, I’ll call the owner Sam. Sam was a middle-aged guy who drove Harleys, laughed loud, stayed up late, slept equally late, and loved programming.
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Following the interesting and lively debate about the Italia startup environment kicked off by he founders of Mashape and followed up by Stefano Bernardi, I want to add my point of view of the startup environment in Milan as I have experienced it. Particularly, I like a lot of the ideas and comments to the two blogs about an Italian eco-system and how we can improve the conditions for startups a
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So you want to start a startup. You’ve got a burning idea, the market is fresh for it, you’re ready to go chase it. You after all are an entrepreneur and ready to take the glorified leap!Well, before you take the leap, here’s my check list of what you need to have going on in your personal life before you are ready to go take the startup plunge.
Asked what a business is, the typical entrepreneur is likely to answer, "An organization to make a profit." The answer is not only false, it is misguided. The only valid definition of a business is an organization which creates a customer.
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The London start-up scene is seemingly a great success, it buzzes with events and most are packed with entrepreneurs and assorted hangers-on. Beer and investment advice usually flow in generous quantities. But is this hive of activity actually helping London’s budding startups succeed?
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I receive essentially the same reaction when I mention that I use virtual assistants, and that I recommend them for anyone starting a startup. It's a mix of shock and excitement. They're shocked I've been able to pull it off, and excited at the thought that they might be able to do the same. The conversation almost always turns to questions about where to find virtual assistants and how a startup
I’ve lived in San Francisco for 15 years, which is 15 years more than anyone connected to this ad. San Francisco changed my life. I found a career here. I was married here. I bought property here. I’m never, ever leaving. So I think I can speak to what San Francisco Values really are. Here are a few of them.
Bosses who walked away with large payouts. ON TUESDAY July 27th BP announced its chief executive, Tony Hayward, was stepping down after just three years in the job. He leaves with a year’s salary, £1m ($1.6m), and a pension reported to be worth £11m, accrued over 28 years of service. On the same day the company revealed a quarterly loss of £17 billion, reflecting the cost of the oil spill in the
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Does a startup benefit from two or three co-founders? Can single founders compete? Every so often this topic bubbles up into my consciousness rss feed. Lots of single founders say “It works fine for me” and lots of co-founders say “We probably wouldn’t have made it alone”. These discussions are often had completely at cross-purposes: people persist in talking about very different kinds of compani
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Startups are by their nature extremely stressful. At a large company, the company itself has momentum. With a few exceptions, if one person (or team of people) were to suddenly disappear, the company will continue to coast for (potentially) multiple years before the effects may become evident
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