285th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Adam Singolda, Taboola

Adam Singolda, Founder CEO of Taboola, has had a fascinating journey as an entrepreneur. It took him four years to get product market fit, and today, the company is at over $200M in revenue. Persistence pays off. Resilience is the single most important characteristic that drives entrepreneurial success.

316th 1Mby1M Roundtable Podcast with Bryce Roberts, OATV and Indie.vc

Discussion with Bryce Roberts, Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and Founder, Indie.vc. We covered the issues with the venture capital financing model, and explored alternatives.

How to Make a Great Pitch for Your Startup

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Stanford studies on design quality and entrepreneurial risk show that the sweet spot for startups is right in the middle of Market and Technology Risk.

Self-Management Trumps Passion in Design-Driven Startup Performance

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Although all startup founders of design driven startups are passionate – still 92% of them will fail within three years, according to a joint Berkeley – Stanford study. While passion may be a core capability, it can hardly be called a competitive advantage, so, what characteristics separate a design-centered founder from

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Best Design-Driven Startups of the Decade

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Successful startups can transform the way we look at the world and ourselves, as well as, create immense value and skyrocket to the top of the Fortune 500 list. Some of these startups were design driven, think: Apple, Nike, HP, Sony, and Nokia. However, few of these were actually founded

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Crowdfunding Startups: Opportunities and Bottlenecks

There has been a bit of action for a while now in the crowdfunding world, and certain startups have been able to get themselves off the ground using the Kickstarter / Indiegogo style sites. By and large, these types of financings have gone to companies that are building physical products, digital games, etc. Fundings have

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Far Away from the Valley …

In Silicon Valley, people tend to be somewhat cocky about the region’s place in the entrepreneurship landscape. But technology entrepreneurship is happening all around the world, and we have tried to bring you an international and non-parochial view of the entrepreneurial universe. Below is a selection of the wonderful stories we have published of entrepreneurs

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Angel Investing: A Growing Phenomenon Around the World

By guest author Karen E. Wilson A new book from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) looks at seed and early stage financing for start-up companies and notes the impact of the recent economic crisis. With banks reluctant to provide loans to startups and venture capital firms preferring to invest in later stage

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