Startup

The Case for Experienced Leadership at Startups

Is Your Startup is Stuck? 3 Ideas to Get Back to Growth

(Hint: It’s not adding more product features.)

You’ve got a working product, a solid group of early adopters and you’ve raised a little money. But you just can’t get the…

5 Ways to Sell Remote Working to Your CFO and COO.

Want Innovation? Let your employees work at a startup.

Big corporations are eager to infuse innovation and entrepreneurial thinking into their cultures. Startups are often desperate for specific skill sets but unable to afford experience.

20 Ideas in 20 Days

I’m looking for my next adventure. Having been a founder/CEO, a hired COO/CFO, a lecturer in venture funding and entrepreneurship at a major research university and teaming to build and manage a university venture accelerator and mentoring program — it’s clearly been more of a career jungle…

Why Big Data May Be the Game Changer for Corporate Venture

The relationships between corporations and startups are complicated. Corporations want access to technologies that may be disruptive as well as those that will help them grow their core businesses. They use a variety of tools to…

Got Churn? 5 Ways to Boost Engagement

Here in the SF Bay Area, the swirling talk is that we’re in a capital crunch. And that we’re turning away from growth at all costs and starting to focus on (gasp)profitability.

4 Lies Startups Tell Themselves About Product Development