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…

What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

This is part of my Startup Advice series.

Good Judgment Comes with Experience, But Experience Comes from Bad Judgment

This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts.

Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture…

Deal with Your Elephant in the Room

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital.

Why Are There Certain Times in the Year Where it is Impossible to Raise Capital?

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital.

How to Deal with Skeletons in your Closet

This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital.

5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Turn Your Organization Inside Out

Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

This is part of my Startup Advice series.

Save Your Spin for Someone Who Cares

Handling PR with VCs

I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day. He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was…