Investor funding is great, but it isn’t nearly as good as customer funding. Internal funding is also great, but that too doesn’t hold a candle to customer funding. If you really want the pressure to execute and deliver a...
Founders should be optimistic or what’s the point, right? But founders also should assume their current plan is wrong. They just don’t know why - yet.
Being a founder is one big dichotomy - having a plan and at the...
Investors and some founders won’t want to hear this, but founders don’t start out as good leaders. In fact, the longer it takes for a company to realize its potential, the more likely it is for a founder to...
For many founders, having something to prove is a rallying cry. Fuel to start and to keep going, even on the darkest days.
Founders can often feel misunderstood by family and friends. This misunderstanding gets converted into a feeling of...
Some startups can be bootstrapped to achieve a similar outcome as an investment-backed startup.
Some investment-backed startups can achieve a positive outcome like an acquisition without a marquee investor(s).
And then there are the startups that need an investor to be...
You have to be interested in the problem and your user’s existence associated to the problem to build a great product.
One of the primary reasons bad and unsuccessful products get built is because the people building the product are...
Founders hear and can read a lot about bootstrapping their company versus raising investment. The fact is that most founders bootstrap their company because they don’t have a choice.Â
There are strategic and operational differences in running a bootstrapped company...
Better is subjective, but we often hear that second time founders are better, more investable, and more successful than first time founders.
A big factor is if a founder succeeds or fails with their first company. A second time founder...