Is it Time for You to Earn or to Learn?

This is part of my Startup Advice series

I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs — both young and more mature — whether they should join company “X” or not. I usually pull the old trick of answering a question with a…

I met with an investor, what happens next?

This is part of my ongoing series, “Pitching a VC.” Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link — Getting Access to a VC. This post covers the day after. I spoke about the…

The First VC Meeting (Post 1 of Many)

I see a minimum of 3–5 pitches per week and often I see up to 10. I also have raised more…

Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

This is part of my ongoing series “Startup Advice” If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please…

Raising Angel Money

This post is part of a series of posts called “Pitching a VC” that explains how to get access to VC’s, what to say when you…

Most Startups Should be Deer Hunters

This post is part of my series “Startup Lessons”

Elephants, Deer and Rabbits — Some thoughts on start-up segmentation

Angel Funding Advice

This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.

Why I Don’t Like Board Observers

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I wrote recently about the role of Advisory Boards…

How to (re) Approach People

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with Business People at Conferences

This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice. With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate.

WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC