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Leadership Lessons First Time Entrepreneurs Forget
While building Greenhorn Connect, I’ve spent a great deal of my time with young and first time entrepreneurs. If there’s one thing I’ve come to appreciate, it’s the absurd odds stacked against any of...
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Fall Accelerator in Boston?
I’ve been helping a friend with his startup recently who shows a lot of promise: early (paying) customers, solid key elements of a product and a logical business model he’s validating. He’s in a...
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Does Boston Have Too Many Startups? A response to Kirsner’s Sunday Globe Article
This post originally appeared on Greenhorn Connect and has a boatload of comments. See here: https://greenhornconnect.com/blog/does-boston-have-too-many-startups-response-kirsner-s-sunday-globe-article...
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The Fallacy of Chasing Startup Ideas
Over the past week, I’ve caught up with a few friends that are in the process of searching for their next startup idea. One is an EIR, another a founder looking for a new idea for their startup. Less...
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How to Become a Better Leader Instantly
Whether building a career at a large company or starting your own, if you want to advance and grow, soft skills like leadership are just as important to develop as hard skills like programming...
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The Social Network – Review, etc…
{Note: Do I need a SPOILER alert? I wouldn’t think for a movie like this but who knows…don’t read on if discussing the movie would ruin it for you?} I just saw the Social Network and was quite...
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Lessons Learned from Observing the OnSwipe Investment Announcement
I really enjoyed seeing the explosion of stuff for local Jason Baptiste and his startup OnSwipe. To really see how this all works, you need to read all the articles surrounding the events of the last...
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Founders: You don’t own your employees
[Ed. note: This is in response to a post by David Hauser entitled, "The Startup Side Project Bubble" which you can read here: http://buff.ly/10Lw9ek] So many founders forget something simple: You do...
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The Unscientific Causes and Cure to Burnout
Having recently burned myself out, it feels like it’s the unspoken condition plaguing those working in startups. It’s as debilitating to us as a torn ACL to a pro athlete, but is hard to recognize on...
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Why the Mayday button is another genius move by Bezos and Amazon
Amazon recently launched the Mayday feature with a television ad campaign showing a one button press for help from a live person who can control and guide you through the use of your Kindle Fire HDX....
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Why you should read 100 books
When I was fresh out of college with a internship at E Ink (maker’s of the display screen for the Amazon Kindle) I emailed the founder and then CEO, Russ Wilcox, to see if he would meet with me to give...
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