My Favorite Startup Wisdom Came From Critics
My mentors are not the bite-sized platitude types. And no entrepreneur I know ever actually listened to advice – otherwise, we would all be IP lawyers like our parents wanted us to be. Sure, we nod in agreement with the advice we get, but only because the advice we get is pretty benign to begin with: hire…
I Believe That Every Startup Is A Rebellion
As a graduate MBA student at Rice University, Allison Lami Sawyer was feeling the all too familiar desire of wanting to start her own business. Initially, she simply wasn’t hooked by the ideas she was finding in and around the Houston area but it was only a matter of time. Then she met Robert Kester. Robert was involved in creating technology based on fluorescent light imaging for use inside research labs. It felt like too specific a...