(Editor’s note: Greg Collier is the founder and CEO of Geebo.com, an online classified advertising site. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
When I launched Geebo.com in May 2000, the goal was simple: Provide a web-based alternative to newspape…
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Evernote CEO calls BS on “the best product doesn’t always win” (video)
The idea that “the best product doesn’t always win” is something that gets repeated fairly often, but Phil Libin, chief executive of notekeeping and memory aid startup Evernote, declared recently that it’s “complete and utter bullshit, totall…
The new face of venture capital: A road map for entrepreneurs
(Editor’s note: Kevin Lawton is a serial entrepreneur. This post originally appeared on his blog.)
It’s a rough time for start-ups seeking financing. Venture capital firms may have loosened the purse strings somewhat, but finding that magic formula…
An argument against disruptive technologies
(Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
I remember “disruptive” when it was called “paradigm shift.” But while that phrase may have died during the …
The biggest mistake startups make
Your startup might have the best product or service to come dancing down the pike in years, but that hardly guarantees success, according to Liz Tinkham, a global manager at Accenture. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given last month at Sta…
Camp-like “accelerator” programs are the new startup incubators
Bryan Menell is the cofounder and managing director of Capital Factory, a seed-stage mentoring program for technology companies. He is also the publisher of AustinStartup, which highlights emerging technology companies in Austin.
In the bad old dotcom…
10 things you won’t learn in school
(Editor’s note: Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher are partners with AKF Partners and have recently published The Art of Scalability. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
You can learn a lot of things in the classroom.
A lot of the knowledge you
50 Three-word phrases that can make your start-up a success
(Editor’s note: Dharmesh Shah is a serial software entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of HubSpot, which provides marketing software for small businesses. This column originally appeared on his blog. )
For some reason, I like wordsmithing and tryin…
The hidden secrets of market research
(Editor’s note: Brant Cooper is an independent consultant specializing in marketing and product management. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
All too often, the goal of market research is to hide assumptions, rather than test them. A depressin…
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