Business success begins in the mind of the startup founder and his team. winning startup is a team of entrepreneurs who build and run the business as an extension of who they are, rather than some extrapolation of the Google or Facebook model. It’s not so easy to fake the important attributes when the going gets rough. Burning desire. Hard work. MORE >>

So you want to successfully build your startup and that means building systems that get all sorts of work done. If you’re funded, you can hire someone to define all the task, marketing, support, recruiting, planning, agile project management and operation systems you need. If you’re bootstrapping, you are that person. Twitter. LinkedIn. MORE >>

Faced with disruptive innovation, you can be sure any possibility for innovation dies when a company forms a committee for an “overarching strategy.”. —– I was reminded how innovation dies when the email below arrived in my inbox. It was well written, thoughtful and had a clearly articulated sense of purpose. Attracting donations. MORE >>

I’m not much of a prognosticator, but recently Sarah Needleman from the Wall Street Journal called me to ask my thoughts about startup accelerators. She had found a blog post I had written ( How to Maximize the Value of Mentors in Startup Accelerators ), and wanted my input on a story she was writing. Accelerators have to make money. MORE >>

In the wake of the undue frenzy leading up to and now ex post recriminations about Facebook's IPO, the mainstream media and normal folks keep wondering if the non-existent bubble for internet companies has now popped MORE >>