Interview At LifeBeyondCode

Here’s an interview at Lifebeyondcode: “What I want people to learn is that entrepreneurship – successful entrepreneurship – is a very achievable goal. Not something to be scared of. Not something to put off until next year, and then next year, and then next life.”

Forbes Column 08: An S.O.S. To Silicon Valley

Zero-in on this week’s Forbes issues An S.O.S. To Silicon Valley. Readers: Do me a favor, and email this article to everyone you know in Silicon Valley. Who knows where the next Brian Jacobs, Marc Andreesen, Jeff Bezos and the rest are hiding? We need to find them.

Conserving Cash: Veodia CEO Guillaume Cohen (Part 3)

SM: Did you have any VCs talking to you, or just the angels? GC: At the time I took the money from the angels, I had some offers from VCs. We ended up going with the angels as it allowed us to build more value and wait to raise VC money under better terms. Angels

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Where Would The Jobs Come From?

Against the backdrop of the financial crisis, with a bailout package that is as large as the cost of the Iraq war, economic policy emerges as the most important campaign issue for this election. The new American president will need to be extremely careful to not choke up the entrepreneurship engine with a tax policy

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Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis

Amidst the financial crisis, some 40,000 of New York’s 185,700 Wall Street jobs could be lost. The bailout is not exactly offering a great deal of confidence to the financial markets. We are all losing a lot of money. Fear runs through the system like a chilling shiver in the middle of the night. In

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Forbes Column 08: ‘SaaS-ing’ Back At The Economy

My Zero-In column on Forbes this morning is ‘SaaS-ing’ Back At The Economy. In it, you will see Jim Heeger’s description of the ‘thumbtack’ economy.

Rules for Bootstrappers (Part 3)

By Greg Gianforte, Guest Author This week’s post addresses marketing, an often misunderstood aspect of starting and running a business. Marketing is not a euphemism for sales. Marketing’s primary role is to engage in activities that make sales more efficient and shorten the sales cycle.

Obama’s Economic Policy

Here are some comments from Forbes readers on my last column. My response is below. Please feel free to chime in.