Monthly Archives: June 2009

Before you take the plunge

June 30, 2009 – 7:47 pm

From time to time, I catch up with ex-colleagues in the corporate world and the typical reaction when I talk about working on a startup is “wow” or “must be great being your own boss!”.  You know what?  Yes it is nice and rewarding…but building a startup is hard.  Really really hard. Given the economy, [...]

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Make your customers feel like stars

June 9, 2009 – 6:04 pm

There is a great discussion over on Fred Wilson’s blog on what leads to consumers adopting new technologies. Fred highlights these technologies to help answer this question: iPhone – mobile browser with a killer touch screen interface Facebook – a social net with real utility Wii – gesture based user interface for gaming Hulu – [...]

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How to pick the right incorporation structure

June 8, 2009 – 1:33 pm

One of the major early decisions founders have to make is selecting the right incorporation structure.  As I found out pretty quickly, this is not a simple decision.  While there are only 3 choices (C-Corp, S-Corp and LLC), the number of exception cases and ‘If/thens’ were making my head spin so I decided to simplify [...]

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