You’ve had a great idea for a new product or service and have decided to act upon it by forming a new startup company. You’ve enlisted a couple of co-founders with complementary skills, gotten some seed capital and built a prototype or MVP. How exhilarating! Also physically exhausting, emotionally draining and potentially straining on the […]
Can You Do an Internal Startup Within a Large Corporation?
This is an interesting question. For the purposes of this article, we will define an internal startup as a new business unit which doesn’t fit neatly within the confines of larger, mature company’s existing business activities. The general answer seems like it should be “yes”! But in practice, there are many unique “gotchas” which can […]
Tech Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
When you’re starting a hardware, semiconductor, mobile software or SaaS company there is more often than not a need to create some very early traction. There are a few startups that are able to get strong external funding from a standing start, notably successful entrepreneurs on the second or third startup, companies with a strong […]
Do You Have The Startup Support System To Go The Distance?
Sometimes what seems like the smallest of things can actually be the most important. I find this particularly true in a tech startup environment, where the margin of error for success is very thin almost by definition. When starting up a software or hardware company the focus is rightly on critical topics like product strategic […]
The Tech Startup Company: Filling in the Gaps
There are a lot of ways to look at the journey of starting and growing a tech startup company to maturity. One way to look at it is like solving a puzzle. A big, scary, complex puzzle with thousands of shapes, colors and pieces. Every tech startup, from the most royal, well-funded ones to the […]
