(photo at TEDxConcordia by EvaBlue) Just recently, a friend of mine asked in a group email about how to further her speaking career. Like me in 2006, she is getting asked to speak fairly frequently, but like me in 2006, she is feeling like it’s taking enough of her time and effort to start asking [...]
I’ve been attending SXSW Interactive since 2005. It’s amazing and I’ve watched it grow from impressive to “OMFG where are all these people coming from?!” Last year, there were nearly 20,000 registered geeks in attendance, but many estimated that the event was also subsidized by an almost equivalent number of people who came to enjoy the [...]
…into the future. Now that Buyosphere is funded, I’m writing a regular column on INC.com and the myriad of other things that I’ve committed to are going on, I find myself looking at the clock everyday thinking, “OMG, where did the day go?” and the calendar at the end of every week and wondering, “It’s not [...]
I can’t believe that 2011 is almost over. It seems like yesterday that I was writing the themeword post for this year…REAP. This year really seemed to fly by in a way I don’t recall other years flying by. Perhaps it is because I was so pre-occupied. Between being busier than I’ve ever been in [...]
Yes, investors say they ‘invest in people’, but they aren’t investing in people’s dreams. They invest in people they trust to build a business, sell that business, grow that business and, ultimately, make them a lot of money.
So why is it so embarrassing to have so many women entering the startup world through such a lucrative entry point? Because, well, it’s embarrassing because we are so few and there is so much hope pinned on our performance. We’ve been begging and screaming to get included and then we show up in high heels talking about designer snugglies and nailpolish.
“Faking it until you make it” is the new transparency and I don’t think it’s resurgence is a good one.
The issue could be that there are just too many shopping deal sites all at once. Or maybe the coupons/deals/offers aren’t what we need as consumers after all. Perhaps it turns out that I don’t need a new pair of cheap shoes or new accessories every month.
Product/market fit is truly the ONLY thing that matters and achieving it before you run out of money is the key to winning.
Why would anyone want to enter a frothy market that has an idea that comes from a real place of “let’s make stuff work better for people AND make money?” It’s heartbreaking.
