Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing websites in history, but struggled for a long time. You tend to hear about startups when they are successful but not when they are struggling. startups MORE >>

We at NextView have been thinking about and looking for investments in seed-stage startups which leverage the megatrend of transitioning computing away from a standard fixed-web PC world.  Of course that includes “mobile-first” applications and companies which ride the adoption of tablet devices (more on those in upcoming posts).  Inherently social. MORE >>

(Powered by LaunchBit ). Recently, I presented Lean Canvas and an extended Problem-Solution Canvas (that we created at Year One Labs) to FounderFuel’s second startup cohort. It was a lot of fun, and hopefully useful for the teams. If you’re curious, FounderFuel is a Montreal-based accelerator program that runs twice per year.). Wrong. MORE >>

One of the biggest red flags I see in many Internet-related business plans today is advertising as the initial revenue stream, or a key part of it. The most challenging time is your first years, when your site is unknown, and your page-views are low. Don’t count on that to fund your startup. This is a tough business. Pay per view (PPV, PPI or PPM). MORE >>

I believe that ambitious startup ideas have similar success probabilities to their less ambitious counterparts, if not higher success rates. No, I don't have any real evidence. Call it a highly educated guess. Note I'm not talking about expected value -- they definitely have higher expected values. startup idea. Ambitious startup. My project ideas. MORE >>