entrepreneur - DROdio - Chairman & Founding CEO of Armory | Advisor at FounderCulture | Husband & Father

Berkeley Haas MBAs visit ShareThis to talk startups, social media & entrepreneurism

Great to meet the Berkeley Haas crew today; thanks for stopping by the ShareThis office! Also, thank you to Jacqueline and Janice in our office for getting everything set up, including your schwag! Here is the video from our talk: And here are my notes from the talk today, as

Launch

No, really. It doesn't have to be perfect. Just get it launched.

I get so many entrepreneurs telling me that their product isn't ready to be launched. While you definitely have to have something to launch, you almost surely don't need something as good as you think. As a reminder, here's what the Amazon.com site looked like when it launched: You

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Is Entrepreneurism Due To Nature, or Nurture? An Interview with Eric.

I just got off a Skype video chat with Eric Wilker, who is an Executive MBA student at USC in addition to being SVP of Business Planning & Operations at Warner Bros. He had to interview an entrepreneur as a part of his class and asked me if I'd be

Tip

My top tips for foreign entrepreneurs

Recently, one of our investors asked me to make a short video & screencast introducing myself and my company to a group of foreign entrepreneurs that wanted to peek under the covers and see what the life of a US startup CEO is like. Since I believe in capturing content

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Inspiring young entrepreneurs at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Last week I spoke at TJHSS&T's Future Business Leaders of America club -- about 100 students who are not only science and tech geniuses at the #1 high school in the US, but also very interested in business and entrepreneurism. Thanks to Mayank Jain for the invite to

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Mayor-Elect Gray: Please Make DC Awesome For Entrepreneurs

I'd like to use this blog post to argue for incoming mayor Gray and the DC Council to make DC the most entrepreneur-friendly place in the US. That means tax breaks, access to government contracts, support for innovation zones, aggressive access to angel funding, but mostly it just means convincing

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The Entreprenuers Gut Check

I just ran across an absolutely stellar blog by Jordan Cooper titled "35 Gut Checks When Founding Your First Company." You can read the entire blog here, and the 35 checks are below. They all struck me as so very true, especially #35. Jordan Cooper's 35 Gut Checks... how many