Recruiting Advice No One Tells You

What I learned from Tristan Walker

How to successfully validate your idea with a Landing Page MVP

Anything can be your Minimum Viable…

The First 15 Seconds

How do you build a product that engages a user quickly enough to engage them over…

How to Name Your Company

This is a big deal. Don’t @#$% it up.

Marketing 101 @ Google U

 The best books, blogs and more from four years studying marketing at Google

“I want you to run a direct marketing campaign reaching five million small businesses across emerging markets — you pick the…

Invited Technical Co-Founder

The role you don’t want to be in.

How it Begins

The Startup Pitch Deck Template

Version 0.5

The A-founders’ genome

7 criteria for the assessment of a founding team

All investors agree that only A-Founders build great companies. It is the essential ingredient of success. Identifying an A-Team of founders is a pretty tough mission, especially…

Why a team of MBAs as startup cofounders is probably the wrong team

(and what MBA schools should do about it)

This week someone came to ask my advice with regards to the new Internet Startup he was bootstrapping. He holds an…

Blogging vs. Building

“The more you blog, the less you are building”