How do you a startup has died (at least one that is pre-funding)? When the co-founders begin to argue about how to divide the assets of the once promising venture. It amuses me to see how vigorously they fight over the cadaver. If they invested as much passion in actually executing on their vision as [...]

I would argue that for the Entrepreneurial Community in Dallas the Dallas Business Journal is irrelevant. We don’t read it. We don’t advertise in it. Of course it doesn’t have to be this way. Gary Hooker, who is one of the owners of Imaginuity, copied me on an email he sent the editor of the [...]

This morning I received an email from an entrepreneur who asked me if I would be willing to introduce mobile app developers you. He explained that you have started an ‘accelerator‘ that offers office space, mentoring and $20-25K to companies who are within 90 days of launch of their mobile applications. In exchange you take [...]

Dean Takahashi wrote an interesting story in SocialBeat describing a fireside chat with Jay Adelson the former Digg CEO. In light of the company’s recent decline and hopeful restart Jay was asked if he regretted not selling Digg when he had the chance. It was widely reported that Digg received offers to sell between $80-100 [...]

Lots of entrepreneurs spend a lot of time telling investors they are the only ones who can do this or that particular thing. While other entrepreneurs explain how their method or model is better than all of the other methods or models. Polite investors just sit back and hold their tongues as they recount how [...]

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