The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. How many copies will this book sell in its first week – real, hardcover, paper copies? If that number crosses some unknowable threshold, the book will debut as a bestseller, and then an awful lot of people are going to read it. But there’s no reason we can’t have a little fun along the way. MORE >>

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of “formal business processes.” The right question is “What is the minimum that I need?” Develop your business plan. MORE >>

Ethernet inventor and generally accomplished tech super-guy Bob Metcalfe gave a great opening keynote talk at this morning's Capital Factory Demo Day in Austin, Texas. The event has been good so far and is live streaming online for free. Sponsor. Five Skills Entrepreneurs Need. Be healthy. You need to be healthy. You should sleep eight hours a day. MORE >>

Lately I've found myself giving a lot of pitch deck advice for seed rounds. Usually I point people this post and tell them to a) stick to six slides with mostly images/graphs; b) drop any financial projections; and c) drop any executive summary or even longer stuff. Then last week I read a @bryce post entitled You Can Never Size a Market in Excel. MORE >>

Inspired by 37 Signals post on how to set up a new laptop for Ruby development, I thought it would be worthwhile sharing how I configure my own laptop in preparation for development. It’s a process I had to go through over the past 48 hours as I was forced to wipe my entire hard drive when installing the new Mac OSX Lion. MORE >>