STARTUP PERSPECTIVES

There are two pushbacks that I almost always hear when trying to persuade someone that a change is needed. They are very common and I use ...

After a few months of preparations, we've launched DeckReport beta. Please try it and tell us what you think. More on: http://deckrep...

                              Image via Wikipedia Startups don't waste time. They typically have one head(CEO) that decides quickly and ...

Key performance indicators are the startup's dashboard, they are your compass and life saving data pointers. Without them, you're fl...

Unless you're playing in a really niche space, you need some sort of marketing. Marketing in a startup, like everywhere else, is a fairl...

There are really just a few key and important data points for the board of directors in terms of financial reporting. On a simplified leve...

Image by AMWRanes via Flickr To be honest, I don't know. I've been back and forth on the issue on various panels and I kind of cann...

It's been 6 months since I've started to work on a small new project called DeckReport. The idea is to create a solution that addr...

Image via Wikipedia Each board meeting should start with three basic slides. They are the slides for a brief and quick introduction and they...

I find it amazing how many tools foe entrepreneura on the internet are free and how available they are. I'm Mac biased, however I...

I've heard many definitions about what startup is. Particularly in blogs and tech comunities, startups are becoming synonimous with inte...

Image via CrunchBase I've recently came across an interesting quote: " There are exceptions, but we believe that working over ho...

Image via Wikipedia European founders too often try to mimic their American counterparts. They hire American advisors, have American investo...

I recently came across an interesting idea about board meetings. Basically, board meetings are a tool that CEO has at his disposal to commun...

Image via Wikipedia Board meeting is an intense 90 minutes event that happens every month or every second month. It's the time when you ...

I was on a panel yesterday, where there were quite a few founder wannabes. An interesting question was asked: "Where can we get the inf...

Image by yousukezan via Flickr Startup raise money in order to leverage their businesses. However when and how much to raise is always a so...

Image via Wikipedia European startups, particularly the ones with strong engineering team, tend to plan their product development. They trus...

Quite a few startups want to fundraise just for the heck of it. I think that's wrong. I partly blame the whole social networks phenomena...

Image via Wikipedia Board meetings are strange beasts. On one hand the CEO is talking to his investors, which is by definition an asymmetric...