There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come Victor Hugo The Lean LaunchPad entrepreneurship curriculum Read More
The Lean LaunchPad Educators Course
Angel investing Business basics Creating good content Crowd-sourcing from entrepreneurs Google Analytics Lean startup Lessons and advice Pivot SEO (search engine optimization) Social media User experience Venture capital Word of mouth
Think you like what you like? Think again
A funny thing happens when you lie to people: they tend to believe. Why shouldn’t they? They lie Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Venture capital
Fund Raising is a Means Not an End
Not all that glitters is goldWilliam Shakespeare For many entrepreneurs “raising money” has replaced “building a sustainable business” Read More
How do products tempt us? What makes them so alluring? It is easy to assume we crave delicious Read More
Business to Business Business to Consumer Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice Marketing
Who’s Doing the Learning?
In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. Read More
At Vator Splash LA on Thursday night, we were honored to have Paul Thelen, CEO of Big Fish Games, take the Read More
At Thursday night’s Vator Splash LA, Paul Thelen, CEO of Big Fish Games, took the stage to talk about Read More
At Vator Splash LA on Thursday night, we were honored to have Paul Thelen, CEO of Big Fish Games, take the stage Read More
Business basics Character Competition Entrepreneurship Failures/challenges from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business Online Retail Perseverance Team building
Josh Berman’s “Six Ways to Be” part deux
4) Be aware. As in– of macro trends, “Everyone talks about first mover advantage. I disagree. I like Read More
Business basics Business models/plans Character Entrepreneurship Failures/challenges Financial and Legal Financing and fundraising from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice Making decisions Managing a business Online Retail Perseverance Team building
Beachmint CEO Josh Berman’s “six ways to be,” part I
It’s a balmy 79 degrees in LA and life is good. Swimmin’ pools! Movie stars! Etc. etc. The Read More
Here is the text of the speech I delivered at the May 10 University of Minnesota College of Read More
Business basics Business to Business Business to Consumer from entrepreneurs Lessons and advice User experience
Guns and Cyber Security
The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. Read More
Business to Business Education Entrepreneurship from entrepreneurs Launching a business Lessons and advice
China startups – how they differ from US startups
I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese andChinese versions of the Read More
Todd Branchflower was one my Lean LaunchPad students entrepreneurial enough to convince the Air Force send him to Stanford Read More
When asked to describe life in Orange County as a startup guy, I quickly call it the place Read More