Tweet When you just found a great idea for an app, the first step (after the initial excitement subsides) is to gather feedback from as many people as you can. That’s what we just made really simple now on FairSoftware with our new feedback widget. Once you setup your idea and enter a description, the [...]

Tweet Below is a question from an entrepreneur, edited to protect the innocent (if you are a member of TheFunded.com, you can read the complete thread): Q: An investor has been pressing me to invest and needs A DECISION IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO, plus he is reminding me to stop publicizing my site [...]

Tweet Advice on how to build a startup is plentiful online with countless blogs by seasoned entrepreneurs or consultants, successful or not. So it begs the question: why write a book in 2009 about starting your own web startup? “The Web Startup Success Guide” by Bob Walsh answers with a resounding yes! Despite all the [...]

Tweet Good programmers don’t need marketing. Great applications sell themselves. I used to think that way too. When I was an R&D engineer, I wrote the code. I made the product. I thought that sales and marketing were basically overhead. Then I switched sides, worked with sales people for a while, and witnessed how hard [...]

Tweet Today I joined a group of European entrepreneurs on their visit to Sun, hosted by the Sun Startup Essentials program. We were treated with a one hour Q&A session with Scott McNealy, chairman of Sun. He was very engaged, passionate and very willing to give advice, answer straight questions and address difficult issues. I [...]

Tweet Attending the Founder Institute is great for the brain: every session contains nuggets of wisdom and tricks that we can all apply to our current projects. This week, the topic was market research. The discussion included a two-box metric to find out if you have a real market or a niche. At some point, [...]

Tweet If you are like 99% of software developers with a great idea, you don’t live next to Google headquarters in Mountain View or drive by Facebook’s offices in Palo Alto on your daily commute. But Silicon Valley still rules the world of Internet startups, so you should probably check it out. Don’t expect to [...]

Tweet If you read this blog regularly, you know that I am a big fan of entrepreneurs. I believe that everyone should get a chance to pursue their ideas, even if they don’t live in the right place (Silicon Valley) or don’t have the right friends (VCs or rich angels). If you are smart and [...]

Tweet Y-Combinator started sending rejection e-mails last night. TechStars was notifying 475 companies last week with the same bad news. If you are like almost everyone else, you didn’t make it. Now what? Exactly what did you lose by not making it to one of those two prestigious startup accelerator programs? Money You didn’t receive [...]

Tweet When I co-founded my previous company, I had the hardest time interviewing candidates for sales positions. We went through four different VP of Sales in the first two years. One of them had no qualms about putting complete fabrications on his resume. If you are like many software geeks, you find the company of [...]