10 Products Sure To Wet Your Whistle For Startup Success
Bethenny Frankel’s huge success with the Skinny Girl brand of products (though they have no similarities to any of my companies) has been inspirational to me as a business owner. Watching her grow from one employee and struggling to make it work to seeing where her brand is today is a testament to the…
37 Entrepreneurship Quotes From Top Startup Founders (Slideshow)
No one knows more about startups than startup founders. While there’s a lot of excellent startup advice out there in the wild, some of the most quotable tips cut to the real heart of what starting a business requires: Identify a problem. Don’t be afraid to prove someone (or everyone) wrong. Keep your sense of…
Inspiration For Entrepreneurs – If You Want To Be Successful, Grow Up And Act Like A Kid Again
Minimum viable product, enterprise solutions, acquisitions, pivots, mobile platforms – the Internet startup universe is one complex, dynamic cosmos. Yet, for all the sophisticated technology, business intricacies, industry terminology, and adult dealings, what’s easy to overlook is how much an entrepreneur’s…
Changemakrs From Strange And Not So Strange Places
No secret that it takes inspiration to launch a startup. So perhaps it’s only fitting then that at some point at least one startup’s inspiration would be: inspiration. Who can’t use another dose of inspiration? We all like inspiration. We never get tired of inspiration. And apparently inspiration has a very short shelf life, because we’re searching constantly for new sources of motivation, spirit lighting, synapse-firing accelerators....
How SparkFun Bootstrapped Their Way From $2500 To $18.7 Million
As an undergrad at the University of Colorado in 2002, Nathan Seidle blew some stuff up. When he searched the internet for replacement parts for the electronic things he was working on, he found himself frustrated at both the lack of parts available and by the lack of pictures of the parts that were available. A Mutli-Million Dollar Idea Was Born Nathan was studying electrical engineering at the time and it occurred to...