It’s said that times have never been easier to get a startup off the ground. Between cloud infrastructure and efficient programming tools, ideas become reality in record time at low expense. We’ve seen a bevy of new startups take that path, perhaps fueled by a successful serial entrepreneur, a friends-family seed round, or an early [...]
This is another in my continuing series on the insights I’ve gained as I’ve talked with leaders and technical heads at numerous startup ventures. This installment: It’s hard to remember the concept you started with when you’re up to your Red Bull-fueled eyeballs in a tangle of code and you have lost sight of your customer [...]
A funny thing happened recently on the way to the liquidity event…the much ballyhooed expectation of infinitely rising energy prices that many in Silicon Valley expected to drive a Clean Tech revolution failed to materialize, leaving conventional wisdom to scratch its collective head. Then, with a crash, the roof fell in. As Bloomberg reports, from [...]
I just hung up the phone from talking with an entrepreneur-founder who had unsuccessfully gone out seeking investment funding before her venture was ready for prime time. The truth is, getting outside funding is a tough sledding even when a venture has its product or service in the market, has paying customers and revenue to [...]
When people think of WordPress, they tend to think of blogging. But WordPress is really a powerful and flexible lightweight content management system with special capabilities for blogging. WordPress is well suited to managing engaging websites, and you don’t have to blog. WordPress even provides detailed instructions on how to disable the default display of blog posts [...]
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