If you’ve started a company (or are growing a business) and every time you share your business idea with other people, they start asking “oh, so you’re like [X] company?”, then you have competition. You don’t decide who your competition is, your customers do by their actions and choices.

Building a two-sided market is probably the hardest thing you can build as an entrepreneur. It’s so hard that a few weeks ago, I organized a Marketplace Founders Dinner because I felt like there needed to be an “AA type meeting” for providing support to those founders :). I don’t know if you know ...

In 2009, I was at a party in San Francisco and had a chance to talk with Keith Rabois about startups and why certain ones succeeded, while others failed. As someone who’s invested and been involved with some of the best companies (Square, Slide, PayPal, etc.), his insights were extremely profound. ...

Roy Williams once said, “The risk of insult is the price of Clarity.” I truly believe that. Below are 7 questions that I’ve answered on Clarity using our Answers feature and I thought my responses could provide some Clarity (pun intended) for your startup.

As a startup advisor and angel investor, one of the first things I try and teach every entrepreneur, is the importance of keeping advisors and investors in the loop. With that in mind, I’ve created an email template that you should consider using.

This past Saturday (November 14th, 2009) I ran my first marathon! It was hard. A lot harder then I thought it would be. Fortunately, I kept busy by thinking about how running that marathon was much like doing a startup.