THE DREAM IN ACTION

I’ve been studying a lot about raising a seed round of funding for a startup. Once your prototype is out and some traction is shown, if you’re going to need capital you gotta work very hard to get it. Here is the first of a multiple (probably 3) part series on the core things I’ve [...]

What skills do you think the perfect entrepreneur needs to have? My answer would be (and I assume yours would be similar), the perfect entrepreneur has every skill that a business requires in order to get started and grow, then that same entrepreneur would have to have the leadership skills to guide a newly acquired [...]

Image via Wikipedia People think that winning an awards show like The Crunchies makes them a success…false. Along those lines, SO many people consider getting a solid round of venture funding a success…false again. Why or how is it that a company can be successful without making money (or, creating value)? If you sell your [...]

Image by Getty Images via Daylife This post is an enhanced version of a previous post. Recently, on the Harvard Business Publishing site there was an article called, “What Surfing Can Teach Us About Managing the Unexpected”, it was all about responding to such tough economic times. The point was made, very well, that it’s [...]

Do you really want to be an entrepreneur? Do you have the right attitude? To be honest with you, I can’t yet answer those questions with 100% confidence. I’ve not been to “the bottom”. I plan on having getting to experience that in my career though. From my limited experience, the thrills of business are [...]

Venture capital is all about finding the right combination of profit potential in a business and the correct individuals to take that business down the right road. There have been businesses out there with incredible profit potential and a phenomenal idea but the people in place either weren’t the right people or didn’t make the [...]