In my first tech startup, we raised $1 million. I worked 20-hour days and used every ounce of blood, sweat and tears that I had. The stress even caused a fistfight with my co-founder. He’s much bigger ...
The biggest mistake is building process hardware too soon. You don’t know what hardware you really need until the product is ...
Reading the NY Times article “Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture,” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and ...
A few years ago, Ian Kent had an idea for a mobile, DIY 200-square-foot home. He sketched a few designs, created computer models and settled on the name Nomad Micro Homes. Then, instead of building a ...
One of entrepreneurship’s most influential thought leaders is Steve Blank, a former Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur who cashed out in the dot-com boom and then thought hard about what made him ...
The market is down. The party is over. And Peloton of X startups aren’t too happy right now. As tech stocks take a hit, the big question on my mind is how a dip in market performance impacts ...
After the holidays, “thinking lean” often takes the form of a New Year’s resolution. But a class of Dal students were thinking lean all last semester as part of an innovative new course in the Faculty ...