YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
When food and shelter are a freelancer’s two heaviest expenses, a conversation about “costs” sounds absurd, no? Unless you breakfast on caviar, truffles and Dom Pérignon in a Mediterranean villa tended by your manservant Basil, your costs can’t be that bad. However, some freelancing costs don’t appear in the books. Fair enough.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2019
In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. These trends seem likely to persist.
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ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
As the global economic situation deteriorates amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine and soaring energy costs, many aspiring entrepreneurs might be tempted to give up and wait for better days. This is partly due to the global financial crisis of 2008, which led many companies to reassess their spending to cut costs.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 15, 2016
Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. This was pre-Google images, pre-MySpace/Facebook. I spent 6 months coding and building Dogster myself.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 21, 2016
In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. These trends seem likely to persist.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Don’t waste time fixing symptoms.
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