Startup Lessons

If you’re a startup founder, you will have to read and I mean read a lot to learn, update your skills etc. …

Business is not as straightforward as it may seem at the first glance — Ever heard the saying “it is not who you are, it is who you know?” I bet you did. Even Metallica used these words in their song “Holier Than Thou,” too. While who you are has a direct effect on who you know and whether knowing someone will help you…

How much time can you devote to this per day?Once I got a co-founder who told me he could only give time on weekends because he already had a full-time job that paid him well. Even though we already get funding, Ridicolous right? So ask this question right away. How…

As a seasoned angel investor and startup advisor, I have witnessed firsthand the impact that mentorship can have on a young company’s growth and success. …

My colleague Adam paid me a strangely specific compliment the other day: “You’re pretty good at writing company blurbs. Maybe you should write a post about this? A lot of founders would probably benefit from it.” Well, here we are. This is a niche topic that (a) matters a lot…

1. Record everything. “Not everyone goes to heaven,” a friend once told me. He stated that I am too “polos.”I don’t know the equivalent of that word in English. But it means that we can’t just trust anybody. One difference is that what a cofounder told me and what he…