[Ed note. I posted this earlier today on the Huffington Post. I am cross posting here as a courtesy to my blog subscribers. ] The first shoe dropped less than a year ago when Facebook stopped restricting its membership to…
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[Ed note: I posted this first on the Huffington Post last Friday. I'm cross posting it here for the convenience of my readers here. -- Tim] I’m eagerly awaiting the iPhone introduction, but not just because I want one. I’m…
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In business schools, in popular blogs, in business publications, and in general discussion of starting a business, we undervalue bootstrapping. We teach starting a business as if every new business requires sophisticated venture capital. I understand how this can be…
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With all the resources they’ve spent on branding themselves as brown, UPS has a booth full of people with green t-shirts. What’s up with that? It turns out to be not nearly as unplanned as it looks. I asked a…
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You can look up Philippe Kahn in Wikipedia if you want. He started Borland International on his own and took it from zero to $60+ million per year and an IPO in less than four years. Borland has been bought…
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The first time I took our company to exhibit in a trade show we brought along a big plastic fish bowl with a sign that said: “Free Drawing! Drop your business card in the bowl for a free copy of…
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It’s hard to focus on the very important point Guy Kawasaki makes as he lists the costs of Truemors.com amidst the clamor of the so-called industry elite complaining about the Truemors site itself, or, even more bizarre, wondering why legal…
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