Lately, I have been working on my companies overall development schedules. This exercise is to get ready for our upcoming funding round, which we hope to close May 15 th. Trying to fit all of the pieces together is turning out to be a chore. A lot depends on how much money we end … [Read more...]
Focus On The Product
A lot of people I counsel at SCORE lack focus. For some reason, they tend to make whatever they want to do, more complicated than it needs to be. Focusing on your core product or service is far better than the shot gun approach of doing everything. Focus is an important aspect of … [Read more...]
Frustration, Genius and Madness
I can see why creative people go insane. You tole over something for months, maybe years and know one gets it. You struggle to figure out what people want to hear not what you want to say. Trying to figure this all out really makes the game of creation a mostly frustrating affair … [Read more...]
Mind The Gap
Recent economic events are creating an innovation gap in the United States. Early stage Venture Capitalists (VCs) are cutting way back on early stage companies to focus on later state and even already public companies. This exodus from early stage company investment will create … [Read more...]
Failure is always an option
Failure is strange. How do you know if you have really failed? Is it because you failed to complete something on a predefined deadline. Or maybe whatever you built just does not work. Failure seems subjective in a way. Sure, not raising money for a project, not getting the sale … [Read more...]
