Entrepreneurship

I readily admit it … I’ve been an entrepreneur full-time for 5+ years now, having enjoyed a measure of success I never dreamed of … and I still wrestle with insecurity on a regular basis. It’s just part of the job. And those who overcompensate for it are typically the most arrogant ones that fall…

I’m resetting my attitude and approach to competition somewhat. I’ve said before that although I hate competition, like we all do if we’re honest, it’s a fact of life in business. My previous thoughts and attitudes about competition in business have indicated that I’d rather obliterate ALL competition, or that’d I’d prefer not to have…

I have a feeling I’m going to be stepping on some toes this year. In fact, I know I will. So I’m writing this NOW as it’ll be a point of reference for me LATER. This is an overdue post, by the way. I posted this last week for our team as a reminder when…

People talk about the “risk” of entrepreneurships way too much as well as the fear of failure. But the biggest risk I see in life is … REGRET. I’ve posted about “regret” several times here at the EntreLab and even given talks mentioning my fear of regret that one person referred to as my “demon…

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs…

As Marc Andreesen so perfectly stated it: Software is eating the world. And as I’ve been thinking about our company’s future and where software in general is heading, I started to see a good ole preacher alliteration coming out in the hottest, most innovative software changing our world. S is for Software. I came up with 11…

Time is the biggest obstacle for bootstrapped entrepreneurs. I hear the question quite a lot of: “How do I make time for my side business?” And the honest but overly simple answer is: You just have to MAKE time. But I don’t like giving that answer. It’s obvious. You make time for what you care…

[This is a recap post from the webinar I did for the EntreLab community. You can download the slides and audio recording in the member’s area.] 7 Keys to Bootstrapping Your Business from Cory Miller | Slides by the awesome Chris Lema Bootstrapped entrepreneurship is the process of taking LIMITED time, talent and treasure to…

Disclaimer: This is a super long post admittedly but meant to be a roadmap for your experiments. So here is the TLDR version aka the PDF of the article. Also you can download the MP3 audio recording and slides from the original presentation here. Your business is just one big continual experiment, with many parts…

Last week I had the opportunity to meet one of my startup heroes — Brad Feld, co-founder of the Boulder-based startup accelerator TechStars. He was in Oklahoma City to speak at a local tech conference on the subject of how to build a startup culture in your city based on his new book Startup Communities:…