In the early Silicon Valley days, I bought a truckload of wood from a San Jose building supply company, and built a wall in a second floor warehouse loft on North First Street in San Jose. My two co-founders, one of whom I met while working on some cool products at … Continue reading →
Startups are friggin’ hard. Some win despite incredible ineptitude. Some lose despite extreme effort and planetary alignment. A few startups are really big winners, and some are incredibly huge losers. I learn from each of my startups, and try to identify useful fundamentals of the big winners and losers. Making … Continue reading →
Back in 1967, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. That was also the year that Mel Epstein, then the Director of Promotions for the New York radio station WNEW, coined the now iconic the phrase “It’s 10 PM … Do you know where your children are?” Fifty years … Continue reading →
There is a genesis to everything. An origin, the birth, that proverbial Eureka! moment. I’ve always hated the use of the phrase “Eureka! moment” – it sounds so trite, and it’s actually a bit presumptuous when discussing startups. The eureka effect is the moment that one fully understands the solution … Continue reading →
