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Top 7 Comparisons Between Starting A Company And Starting A Family

0 Comments 26 April 2010

I have a 17-month-old son, recently left one startup after five years of growing it from 5 to 110 people and launched my third startup in 10 years at the beginning of this month. So I can tell you from deep in the trenches that there are tons of parallels between stating a family and [...]

Interviews, Tips & Tricks

Interview: Mark LaRosa of QuotaCrush & Angelsoft Part 2

0 Comments 24 April 2010

Mark LaRosa is the founder of QuotaCrush. Started as a blog on sales techniques for start-ups, QuotaCrush now provides outsourced sales consulting and services to several start-ups, incubators, and universities. Mark also plays an active, key role at Angelsoft, where he was also previously the VP, Sales. Angelsoft provides software that helps angel [...]

Interviews, Tips & Tricks

Interview: Mark LaRosa of QuotaCrush & Angelsoft, Part 1

0 Comments 21 April 2010

Mark LaRosa is the founder of QuotaCrush. Started as a blog on sales techniques for start-ups, QuotaCrush now provides outsourced sales consulting and services to several start-ups, incubators, and universities. Mark also plays an active, key role at Angelsoft, where he was also previously the VP, Sales. Angelsoft provides [...]

Tips & Tricks

Top 5 Ways To Reduce Or Eliminate Meetings

1 Comment 19 April 2010

On the heels of last week’s post about how to run a startup board meeting, I attended a speaker event last week at the West Side YMCA in New York and the guest speaker was Jason Fried, author of REWORK and founder of 37Signals. One of the chapters in his book and topics that night [...]

Tips & Tricks

How To Run A Startup Board Meeting

1,450 Comments 15 April 2010

I found this post from Boston based Andrew Payne, founder of FanSnap, investor in HubSpot and advisor to Kayak, among other things, on his wiki and thought it very much worth sharing: How to Run a Startup Board Meeting There are no firm rules for running board meetings at early stage startups. The CEO needs to [...]

Tips & Tricks

Gene Simmons (KISS) & Fred Wilson (AVC) On Dealing With The Fear & Doubt Of A Startups

4 Comments 10 April 2010

A fellow entrepreneur confided in me earlier this week that, while she was determined to remain optimistic, she was experiencing doubts about her two year old startup. If you can relate, this post will ask you the same simple question I asked her that should instantly dispell your fear and doubts, or at least make [...]

Tips & Tricks

What A Week’s Worth of Startup Progress Looks Like

2 Comments 09 April 2010

It’s been one full week since I left my last company to launch SalesCrunch, a Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) company who’s mission is to revolutionize the sales profession and make sales sexy through technology and education. No matter how great your idea or how much funding you have, the clock is always against you in a startup. That [...]

Interviews, Tips & Tricks

Interview: Jeff Stewart, Founder, UrgentCareer & Mimeo & Angel Investor

0 Comments 08 April 2010

Jeff Stewart if the founder and CEO of UrgentCareer, Founder and Chairman of Mimeo, angle investor in several New York based startups and himself is on his sixth startup in New York City. We talk about UrgentCareer, Mimeo, why he chose New York as the city in which to start six companies and what Jeff looks [...]

Tips & Tricks

What Not To Say To Your Logo Designer

2 Comments 05 April 2010

Designing your logo is one of the first fun things you get to do when starting a new company. I have gone through the process several times, but a few years have elapsed in between each so I am a bit rusty. Here is a funny story that reminded me how careful you need to be [...]

News & Reviews

This Week in Silicon Alley: Tech+Media Events (4-05+)

0 Comments 05 April 2010

Don’t forget boys and girls, New York Tech Meetup is tomorrow and there ain’t many seats left for ya: This beer drinking duo seems to be the most popular pic for the “This Week in Silicon Alley” post so far. Should I keep it the same or keep changing it around?

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