skip to main | skip to sidebar 04 January 2011 Your Financial Model Is A Work Of Fiction; Build It Anyway Startup Financials Series Startup financial models are a pain in the ass. They take a ton of time to build. They are complex and often messy. They are never truly “right.&# And they are outdated almost the moment you finish them. MORE >>

skip to main | skip to sidebar 04 June 2011 What Startups Can Learn From Sailors (Part Deux) Note: This is the second installment of a series that draws parallels between sailing and running a startup. The first installment can be found here. Part II of What Startups Can Learn from Sailors: A For Attitude. Conditions are often stressful. Savor it. MORE >>

skip to main | skip to sidebar 11 January 2011 Deals Gone WIld (aka "What Drives Massive Startup Valuations?") A few months ago, I wrote a blog post on startup valuation that presented a table of normal or “typical&# price ranges for startups depending on the sector and stage of development, among other things. But what about the outliers? MORE >>

skip to main | skip to sidebar 16 December 2009 What Startups Can Learn From Sailors (Pt. I) I’m a simple guy. basically have just two passions in life: startups and sailing. Last fall, after nearly a decade spent working with startups, my wife and I embarked on an extended ‘sailing sabbatical.’ Build The Boat For The Task At Hand. MORE >>

Now there are signs that things may be (slowly) starting to turn around. Ive had a couple lunches with attorneys this week which were illuminating. would posit that startup lawyers are the canaries in the coal mine-- they work on deals well before the deals are publicly announced. folks with small seed funds like the aforementioned Ron Conway). MORE >>