38 days ago by Alexander Muse

I would argue that the most difficult decision an entrepreneur must make is which idea to turn into a business. If you hang out with entrepreneurs you will quickly realize that ideas are infinite while time is finite. Picking the ‘right’ idea is key to success. If you start with an idea that could e ...

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38 days ago by Alexander Muse

Normally I am railing against government intrusion into the private sector, but today I am making a personal appeal to President Obama to DESTROY a startup called Blueseed. Peter Thiel has backed Blueseed and according to BI and the AP, “The company aims to sidestep the U.S. current regulations by b ...

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39 days ago by Matthew Carroll

This article was written to more acutely investigate the unprecedented challenges that confronted the business environment for consumer-fashion brands in the wake of the Great Recession (GR). This is a deep dive into how a fashion startup, Gilt Groupé [1], rode to the rescue of fashion-industry & as ...

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40 days ago by Mark Suster

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. One of the most important articles I read during the entire year was David Brook’s op-ed article on “ The Haimish Line.” In it Brooks talks about his recent t ...

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41 days ago by Contributor

Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo . Follow him @ashkan . Company founders are the quintessential cheerleaders, promoting their vision and company every chance they get. But that doesn’t mean that they are necessarily the best at two core functions: ...

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45 days ago by Mark Suster

There are certain topics that even some of the best journalists can’t fully grok. One of them is profitability. I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” I mention j ...

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45 days ago by Contributor

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Uzi Shmilovici, CEO and founder of Future Simple , the company behind Base— a simple CRM for small businesses What do Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Dropbox and Skype have in common? Except for being ridiculously successful, they all enjoyed a strong viral ...

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46 days ago by Steve Blank

Watching an entrepreneur fail is sad, but watching them fail from a lack of nerve is tragic. Excitement At the beginning of this year Bob, one of my ex-students was in entrepreneurial heaven. He had an idea for a new class of enterprise software insight-as-a-service based on big data web analytics a ...

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47 days ago by Contributor

Editor’s Note: Guest contributor and early TechCrunch writer Steve Poland ( @popo) is exploring a fund to join the “overcrowded” early stage investment market. His last contribution was “Will It End Very Badly?” Probably Not. If you’re asking which startup to build, not whether to build, you probabl ...

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48 days ago by Contributor

Editor’s note: Contributor Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of WatchMojo . Follow him @ashkan . Entrepreneurs are always in “sell mode”, but that doesn’t mean they need to be BS-artists. Most entrepreneurs aren’t born liars, but we’re brought up in a system that rewards bad behavior and ...

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