Tweet Finding a great idea for your startup or Fair Project is the first step to a captivating journey. Sharing your idea with others is the first step to success. Many software developers I meet are so scared to have their idea stolen that they refuse to tell you anything at all. Reality Check Do [...]

Tweet We all have big dreams. Mine is to help millions of entrepreneurs succeed together using FairSoftware, our website. To get there, web 2.0 experts will tell you that your traffic will increase over time as you keep working hard. It’s true, but this also suggests that the road to the top is through small, [...]

Tweet A few years ago, a friend of mine founded a startup with a long-time colleague who was a great salesman. It turned out that the Web 2.0 business my friend was running didn’t actually require those sales skills and so after a few months he had to let this person go. That could have [...]

Tweet My worst memory of the first startup I co-founded? Writing the final check to the lawyer to close the company. It was in 2000, toward the end of the dot-com bubble. We had done everything by the book to start our company: each of the four co-founders wrote a $1,000 check and our lawyer [...]

Tweet Having a great idea is a prerequisite before embarking on the startup adventure. (While John Nesheim is correct that the Internet has made unique ideas less likely, I’ll respectfully disagree with Paul Graham’s view that great ideas are overrated). But how can you tell that your idea is the right one? In my experience, [...]

Tweet In case you haven’t heard of us yet, FairSoftware is a startup that helps you start your own startup. This blog is dedicated to the entrepreneur in all of us. Below is our story. The Original Idea It’s been almost three years since I visited my friend Christophe in Paris for a casual chat [...]