Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 19, 2011
I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 1, 2009
Where are the charitable foundations, business schools and hospitals named after him? Sure one guy got kicked out – which could have been avoided if he ran company well enough to keep financial control – and the other hung in there and got institutions named after him. Yet you never hear who built that company. Who was he?
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David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 26, 2020
We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. And so that is continuing to lean in to the present rollout.
Up and Running
AUGUST 12, 2015
You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. Company name and logo. That is not the business plan anymore. That is an old-school plan. No one should do that sort of business plan.
Up and Running
JUNE 13, 2015
I read this quote by a guy named Parker Palmer, who is an author and an activist. I learned through this process of studying companies, and individuals, and entrepreneurs, people like Walt Disney, and Mother Teresa, and hundreds of people whose names I didn’t know until I started undergoing this study of writing this book, The Art of Work.
ConversionXL
APRIL 14, 2016
Be especially ruthless with products and product images: prioritize relevant visuals (namely, high-quality product images) over stuff that’s just “pretty” (e.g. The page also leans hard on both individual desire — “What’s in it for me?” — as well as social desire — “What are the people I like doing?”. Lose business?
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