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Startups Need To Ask Themselves, 'Am I A College Or Professional Athlete?'
While some may see an IPO as the be-all end-all, top Silicon Valley investor Bill Gurley believes that going public isn't for everyone.In an interview with Forbes contributor Eric Jackson, Gurley spoke...
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How One Flower Delivery Company Got Its Start From An Epic Poker Game
BloomNation's co-founder David Daneshgar has poker to thank for his company's early success.Daneshgar is a professional poker player. He won the World Series of Poker in 2008 and has been ranked one of...
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15 Essential Startup Tips From Founders
Startup CEOs are faced with the challenge of developing a business from the ground up, growing as they compete with established brands.About three out of four startups fail, and 90% of those in the...
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This Poker-Funded Startup Is Revolutionizing The Flower Industry
David Daneshgar, a world-famous poker player, was attending the University of Chicago's business school when Farbod Shoraka, a friend from Daneshgar's undergrad years at Berkeley, reached out to him....
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I'm On The Australian StartupBus, And In Just A Few Hours I Think I've...
An estimated 90 per cent of startups fail and after four hours on the StartupBus hack-a-thon today I think I know why.Somewhere past Goulburn, rumbling down the highway from Sydney towards Melbourne,...
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The Laundromat Vs. New Laundry Apps: Which Is A Better Value?
If you live in a major city without a washer-dryer, laundry can be an incredible time suck.But residents of New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C. can outsource that chore to an...
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FOUNDER: How I Built And Sold My First Company When I Was Only 14 Years Old
Like many entrepreneurs my journey began in order to solve a problem.At 13-years-old, I was counting the money I had received for my Bar Mitzvah when my father came into my room.“How much have you...
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This CEO Learned A Tough Lesson When He Asked His Employees To Review Him
I am the CEO at Happy Cog, a digital design studio. We have offices in New York, Philadelphia, and Austin. We have been growing. We now have 33 employees, up from just north of 20 a few months ago. As...
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Here's How A Billionaire Investor Coached An Entrepreneur Through The Pitch...
When you pitch your startup to a big investor, you're giving a presentation that could potentially win you millions of dollars in funding and make all the sacrifices you've put into your idea worth...
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6 Signs No One Is Going To Fund Your Startup
A common mistake you can make when starting a company is to try to raise money for an idea that isn’t fundable.I can hear the protests now: “But I need to raise money to pay my bills and eat!”If you...
View ArticleKRUGMAN: It's Easy To Get Excited About The Technology Revolution But The...
You hear a lot of people arguing that technology explains why so many people are unemployed, as it's a driver of "structural" unemployment. Paul Krugman explains why the jury is still out on this...
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6 Things To Consider When Hiring Your First Employees
Entrepreneurs start out as a one-man band, add devout followers and then add skilled technicians. It’s the normal evolution of an entrepreneurial business.At this stage, the new business owner needs...
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The Man Who Sold His Messaging App To Skype Just Raised $4.5 Million For His...
After selling messaging app GroupMe to Skype for $85 million in 2011, Steve Martocci did not sit still. Within two years he had his next startup, a music platform called Splice, in the works.Splice is...
View ArticleHere's A Photo Of Two Guys Standing On The Side Of The Road Begging For Money...
When it comes to raising some cash for a startup, most people try to get backing from a venture firm. Others try to get some help from friends and family.Or if you're these guys, you do it the...
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This Manservant Service Looks Like A Joke — But It Isn't
There's a video going around that claims to know what women really want — manservants.The jist is that hiring strippers to make a woman feel good isn't just cliche, it's plain uncomfortable.So the...
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Naivety Was A Huge Reason Retailmenot Went From Startup To A Billion Dollar...
The founder of global offer site Retailmenot, Bevan Clark, says naivety was one of the best attributes the company had when they were starting out.They didn’t do any market sizing, research or hiring...
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Meet Korea's Billion-Dollar Startups
Last December, Aileen Lee from Cowboy Ventures identified 39 software startups that have reached valuations of over $1 billion and grouped them under the moniker of The Unicorn Club in her landmark...
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The Genius Behind The Apple Store Has A New Startup That Hopes To Ease Your...
Former Apple VP and JC Penney CEO Ron Johnson is launching a delivery startup, according to The Information's Jessica Lessin.The Information described the startup as an "on-demand delivery service for...
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A Woman Jumped Out Of A Plane To Show How Much She Wants An Internship At...
Alphatise, the Australian e-commerce startup that enables consumers to get deals on almost anything, is searching for an intern, and it’s dangling a hefty $100,000 package to attract the right...
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This Woman's Revolutionary Idea Made Her A Billionaire — And Could Change...
The next time you get a blood test, you might not have to go to the doctor and watch vials of blood fill up as the precious fluid is drawn from your arm.No more wondering to yourself — "ah, how much...
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