Archive for January 6th, 2006
The Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists
Rob Hyndman: Guy Kawasaki finishes the week with a hilarious post that reads between the lies of what VCs tell you. If I had a nickel … The others are funny, but number one is most direct: “I liked your company, but my partners didn’t.â€? In other words, “no.â€? What the sponsor is trying to [...]
Can’t believe I haven’t posted about this yet, but Ryan Carson has been publishing a series of very interestng articles on 37signal’s blog how to startup a small business called, appropriately enough, Small Biz 101. There have been four articles so far: How to Get Started Cash Flow Basics No One Starts with a Masterpiece [...]
Mises Institute: There are thousands of reasons why entrepreneurship should never take place but only one good one for why it does: these individuals have superior speculative judgment and are willing to take the leap of faith that is required to test their speculation against the facts of an uncertain future. And yet it is [...]
Financing With A Credit Card Risky
Smart Startup Newsleter: I read a thread over at StartupJunkies.org recently. A poster was asked if he should use his seven credit cards to bankroll his business. My answer is a firm “no”. Things have changed dramatically over the last few years making this financing approach simply too dangerous. First, there’s the new Bankruptcy law [...]
