Posts tagged as:

revenue model

Startup Venture Capital – Best Eight VC Questions

Thumbnail image for Startup Venture Capital – Best Eight VC Questions

by Eric | Apr 15, 2010, 5:21am EST

Raising venture capital can be both exhilarating and a thoroughly thought provoking experience.  Glen Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, an online real estate brokerage startup, weighs in on the best eight questions he was asked while raising his last venture round.  A very good read and questions we should all be asking ourselves in our [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

Burn Rate: The Not So Silent Killer

Thumbnail image for Burn Rate: The Not So Silent Killer

by Eric | Feb 26, 2010, 11:17pm EST

One of the all time great opening lines is from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. I am beginning to think that the opposite is true for (web) startups.  There seem to be surprisingly many roads to success.  But the canonical road to trouble appears [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

How to Create a Marketing Plan

Thumbnail image for How to Create a Marketing Plan

by Eric | Feb 19, 2010, 1:20pm EST

I am not big on large document productions, but I do believe in Marketing Plans.  Setting proper targets, goals and a means for A / B testing the release of products, price points and prospecting makes good sense to me.  Darren Dahl over at INC. has written a good piece on the subject worth a [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

What Should I Build and For Whom?

Thumbnail image for What Should I Build and For Whom?

by Eric | Feb 18, 2010, 8:53am EST

We have spent a good amount of time discussing how to vet the the big idea, but we have spent precious little effort describing how to actually build a framework around testing it in actual use.  I’ve heard  Google often say, “Release early and iterate,” and while I agree, maybe if they had used the [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

What Will Consumers Pay For Online?

Thumbnail image for What Will Consumers Pay For Online?

by Eric | Feb 18, 2010, 8:34am EST

The internet gives and the internet taketh away.  Each year as services provided grows on the net, the amount of free content is tracking at an even greater pace.  Companies such as Apple and even Amazon are fighting hard to reverse this trend with new offerings, but the pace of free is all consuming. If [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

Funding Your Business — Another Perspective

Thumbnail image for Funding Your Business — Another Perspective

by Eric | Feb 18, 2010, 8:14am EST

Please find another real-world perspective on getting funded.  For many, the method here described is a most likely scenario.  This particular article by Clate Mask, the co-founder and CEO of software company Infusionsoft, makes three points at the end that I believe drive home a clear path to a fianancing success. “Get customers, show revenue [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

Making that First 1 Million Bucks

Thumbnail image for Making that First 1 Million Bucks

by Eric | Feb 11, 2010, 7:32am EST

I started my first company at 27 with a grand total investment of $13,000, which by the way, I had to borrow.  My goal was to make my first million by the time I hit thirty.  So did I make it? No.  Turns out I was 3 months late. Believe me when I tell you, [...]

Digg this Buzz this Share on Facebook Post to Twitter
Read the full article →

← Previous Entries