Strategies for Growing Technology Businesses - Blogs

• Mission Statements
  Mission statements can be seen as optional, but according to this blog entry, they are as critical as your business plan. Take a look at the main points about mission statements, and be inspired.
• Ten Startup Lessons Worth Knowing
  Hats off to mark Goldenson, for taking the time to be honest and share his experience with a failed startup. Most people hide in the sand, and then no one benefits. Mark has created an outstanding …
• Advice for Winning Competition: Kayak
  Entrepreneur Sam Shank is no innocent by-stander as he analyzes Kayak's chances for taking market share from TravelPost. Why? Well, he founded the original company upon which Kayak is now built. …
• Analysis of a Business - TravelPost and Kayak
  Entrepreneur Sam Shank, founder of DealBase, has taken his extensive expertise and shared it with us in the form of this competitive analysis. Here he is looking at how Kayak might take on …
• Focus is the Key to a Successful Startup
  The clock is always ticking, and the money (if you even have any) is running out by the day. With so little to leverage, you need to make sure that the focus of your company’s product offer …
• Great Customer Service
  David Hornik writes about the need for great customer service, and points out rightly, that SaaS products, which have Service in their name, really need to pay attention. The two companies he …
• Lean Internet Startup
  In another information article, Eric shows the technology side of creating a lean startup. We have long been proponents of lean startups, (see our article on staffing,
• Typical Startup Mistakes
  In this blog article, there are some typical mistakes an early stage start-up makes. Here are the ones we feel are most important: 1. Don't price your product too low 2. Don’t let nonbelievers …
• Tough Talk for Tough Times: What the CEO Should Be Saying Now
  Perhaps you are the CEO, or else, you are hearing the CEO, or, you are a Board Member and want the CEO to talk. In any …
• The First-Time CEO's Recession Survival Guide
  What do you do when you have just started your company, and boom, a recession hits? Here’s a great blog entry that Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, an online real …
• Technology for Humans: Gloom and Doom... But We Will Persevere
  How do you manage your new business in a downturn economic environment? How does it affect your business strategy, and raising money?
• Why vision statements matter
  One of the great venture capital blogs, BeyondVC offers some insight from a VC point of view about why you want to take the time to create your vision statement. Don’t forget to include it …
• The Startup Pyramid
  In this presentation from the FBFund Incubator summer, Sean Ellis gives a picturial understanding about strategy, and points out the pit falls that early stage startups encounter. He goes into …