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I know we are already into January but is it ever too late for a New Year’s resolution that could transform your business? There are no less than a million business ideas floating around out in [...]

Last weekend I went to another Startup Weekend event. This is the awesome 54-hour (Friday to Sunday) event sponsored by TechStars that takes teams from initial rough idea to building a team then [...]

I just returned from a few weeks in Paris. Along with enjoying all the delights my second favorite city in the world has to offer I met with several startups. All have interesting [...]

I’ve been involved in one way or another with business accelerators for more than thirty years. Sometimes you hear the names Accelerator and Incubator used interchangeably but these are two very [...]

What’s the riskiest part of building any business big or small? Hint: This is the riskiest, most costly phase in and business timeline. You could be a few scrappy engineers trying to build a new [...]

I know the stock market is going crazy these days and churning up a lot of stomach acid, but It’s a fact of life that stock prices will always go up and down. The only sure thing is to keep your [...]

Facebook, Google, Netflix, and Amazon are all going strong right now but one thing is for sure… No disruptor has lasted forever. Just as these leaders crushed their predecessors, new innovative [...]

What’s the next big thing? What’s the next Billion dollar startup? If you think it might be in the area of Artificial Intelligence, big data, or the Internet of Things you just might be wrong… [...]

Everyone seems to have a few favorite New Year’s resolutions. The same ones show up on your list every year. It’s like your own personal greatest hits. I guess it’s human nature to optimistically [...]

Over the last decade or so startup accelerators have been a great source of inspiration, education, connections and capital for new companies. Y-Combinator, the granddaddy of them all started on [...]