There are many mistakes that can and are made in the challenging pursuit of building a great company.
Here is a list — not exhaustive of course. I’d love to see yours
This post first appeared in the Financial Times on Saturday 2nd June 2012 and was written specifically for the FT. I’ve re-published here because in the current market, there are more companies being formed/started than ever. Records are being set in every geography for…
Should tech angels stop investing in startups?
There is lots of chatter about whether this or that event indicates the beginning of the last steep ascent to the summit of tech investment for the moment. Those of us who have lived through the cycles know that…
Ask any entrepreneur or investor about achieving product market fit, and they’ll tell you that once they’d done it, their company started to grow like crazy. They’d built a product or service that resonated with people, and those people were turning into evangelical customers of…
[Mon Mar 21, 2004]
see edited version at Media Guardian, Mar 29, 2004
There was a time, far-far away in a distant century, although not more than a few years ago now when the advertiser-supported media, which covered the…
Just back from Dublin Web Summit — amazing to see what Paddy and the team has built over the last 5 years from 400 to 40k people and excited to see what it become in 2016 in all four major Internet markets: US, Europe, India and Asia.
[Mon Mar 28, 2005]
see edited version at Media Guardian, Mar 28th, 2005
Jeff Bezos has always been a man that takes the long view. So in 2001, when the…
[Thurs Feb 19, 2004]
see edited version at Media Guardian, February 23, 2004
The urge to merge is back in fashion — hostile or otherwise. After not quite five years of famine, Wall…
[Mon Apr 11, 2005]
see edited version at Media Guardian, April 11th, 2005
Over the last few months the New York Times has paid $410m for About.com, Dow Jones $528m for Marketwatch…
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