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Embrace the desire to make money 24 Jul 2013 | 03:15 pm
"If you want to make money, go into banking, not into startups." "Only go into startups if you're really passionate about them, because you probably won't make any more money than from a good job, an...
Friends, Family and Fools: the worst investors 22 Jul 2013 | 09:15 pm
"If you're struggling to raise investment from angel investors, the next fallback is FFF funding - Friends, Family and Fools. You can always raise a few tens of thousands of pounds from this source no...
Understanding your competitors 18 Jul 2013 | 01:15 pm
In GrantTree, I've lost count of the number of times when, upon being asked about competitors, the client declares that "we don't have any competitors, what we do is unique". Unfortunately, this mind...
Hardware startups and quality 18 Jul 2013 | 02:15 am
Marc Barros offers some solid tips for starting a hardware startup, which show that although there are similarities between the approaches for hardware and software: Shipping a quality device is by f...
Sales or die 17 Jul 2013 | 09:15 pm
Echoing Mark's point from earlier, here's Spencer Fry: Make sales or die. A little background on me for anyone who hasn’t been reading my articles since 2009: I started selling on the Internet when I...
Ring the freaking cash register 17 Jul 2013 | 03:15 pm
Mark Suster, making a point I've made a few times, but explained from his point of view as a VC: If you are a super young, well-connected, Stanford CS or EE, worked at Facebook early, have a bit o’ d...
Startup funding in the UK 15 Jul 2013 | 12:52 pm
Most of the search results when you google for startup funding uk are not very helpful at all to UK tech startups. So, in the spirit of making things a little easier for my fellow startup founders, I...
Antiprism 21 Jun 2013 | 09:15 pm
It's rare to be able to point to something done by anyone associated with politics and declare that it might save the world. However, this is it. The world that Bush, Obama, and all their accomplices...
Three kinds of games 14 Jun 2013 | 03:15 pm
This is just an arbitrary categorisation, but I find it useful. Obviously there are other ways to categorise games, and startups. I love games. I have played games since I was a child. Computer games...
Will you make it past being a founder? 14 Jun 2013 | 12:15 am
Great article by Marc Barros. From my own current experience, it is a hard transition: Being a CEO is a very different role. Still the visionary and champion of culture, they are the ultimate leader....
