From Desk to Founder: How to Transition Into B2B Entrepreneurship in 2025
Étienne Garbugli teaches professionals and consultants how to become B2B founders.
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Q: Cofounder Resigned and Surrendered his Equity
An entrepreneur writes, “After four months my talented and hard working cofounder resigned and surrendered all of his equity. How do I convince him to come back?”
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Alex Panait on Current Trends and Possible Futures for AI
I had a thought-provoking conversation with Alex Panait of Mission Automate on current trends and possible futures for AI applications.
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Q: I Cannot Get Prospects Interested in Conversations
There are many reason it can be difficult to get prospects interested in conversations, much less your product. Here are a few along with a suggested sequence of steps to determine their needs.
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What to Do Before You Find a Cofounder 2
A cofounder can make a huge difference in your rate of progress in getting your startup off the ground. But it’s better to get started on your own than wait until you find a cofounder.
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Entrepreneurship is a Marathon, Change Your Pace to Recharge
Entrepreneurship is a marathon, or at least a long roller coaster ride, not a sprint. Add recharge time to your regular activities.
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Paul Scott’s expert guidance on the SBIR grant process
Paul Scott’s expert guidance on the SBIR grant process, from concept paper to full proposal.
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Newsletter Q4/2023: Market Exploration
Our Q4/2023 Newsletter focuses on our Customer Discovery Bootcamp for Market Exploration. It is offered on demand with new cohorts starting in January 2024.
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Next Customer Discovery Bootcamp Starts in January 2024
We are offering a new round of our popular “Customer Discovery Bootcamp” session starting in January of 2024
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Faith Emittee on “Working Capital: Assembling Your Team”
A guest post by Faith Emittee that summarizes key insights from the cofounder chapter in “Working Capital: Assembling Your Team.” It originally appeared on Sparkyard as “Why You Should Consider Partnering with a Cofounder.” Reprinted with permission.
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Jorge Zavala: Build Products and Services from Your Experience
Learn how to transform your life, create wealth, and enjoy delivering solutions to a broad market. It has never been easier to be a Solopreneur handling yourself your own business.
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Finding Co-Founders: Recruiting Like-Minded Individuals for Startup Success
When recruiting people for your startup, finding co-founders who share your goals and vision is important. The alignment between co-founders is crucial for success, as it helps avoid potential problems that can derail the company.
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Clear in Hindsight: April 2022 ended a Minsky boom for startups
A Minsky boom is a period of economic growth characterized by increasing instability and speculation, ending in startup funding constricting.
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What To Do Before You Find a Cofounder
Harsh Darji shares some of his drawings and his process of visual thinking. See how visual thinking can help you innovate your business.
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Mike Krupit on Network Density and Fluidity
In the video below, Mike Krupit, founder of Trajectify, shares some interesting insights on density and fluidity your network. Mike Krupit on Network Density and Fluidity An edited transcript for readers: Mike Krupit on the importance of your network The other thing I will say is having a network. When we’re starting a business, we’re
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Peer Advice and Support for Startup Founders
Entrepreneurs benefit from peer advice that provides knowledgeable perspectives, highlights blind spots, and lifts them out of ruts.
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Mark Brinkerhoff: Starting With a Sketch Saves Money
A great short briefing by Mark Brinkerhoff, President of Fusion Design on how starting with a sketch saves money; he uses a simple HVAC design example but the technique is broadly applicable.
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Lean Canvas – Experimentation (Video Available)
Lean Canvas Experimentation is part of a five part series by Ed Ipser where he explains how to use the Lean Canvas and what it is good for. Focus Marketing Operation Finances Experimentation In this Lean Startup Canvas session on Experimentation, Ed Ipser shares how to use your lean startup canvas to design and conduct experiments
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Micro-VC / Angel investor Thomas Ahn on the Effective Investor Pitch
An extract from a highly interactive session with Thomas Ahn at the Lean Culture Meetup on Mar-25-2021 where he answers “what makes for an effective investor pitch?”
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Lean Canvas Finances
Lean Canvas Finances is part of a five part series by Ed Ipser where he explains how to use the Lean Canvas and what it is good for. Focus Marketing Operation Finances Experimentation In this Lean Canvas – Finance session, Ed Ipser shares how to identify your own revenue and cost structure and how to create
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