When it comes to startups, you’re always told to narrow your idea. Focus on a niche community, rather than take on the whole world. Refine.
When it comes to experience, though, early entrepreneurs should broaden themselves. When you’re starting out, participate in a wide swath of activities to better understand each part of a business. […]
I spent most of this weekend refreshing and learning a few things in UNIX, and I kept thinking about two points:
It’s great to know how to teach one’s self
It’s great that there’s this thing called the “internets” to help
Point #2 is something I want to revisit later. Using the internet as a learning tool […]
I was watching a video today about using the right tools and decided to take the opportunity to talk about my whiteboard. It’s the one tool not called a ‘computer’ that I couldn’t live without.
Before I go on, Iet’s talk about the furniture in my room. There’s the desk. That was free […]
Tonight, I attended the second meeting of the Columbia Venture Community. As I wrote in my original post about the group, CVC is exactly the type of group that Columbia needs. In fact, it’s actually only part of what Columbia and the greater New York City startup scene needs.
Now, I’ve never lived or […]
Even the most well designed concept would go nowhere without a team to execute.
Sometimes the right choice is no team at all — but this is not the sustainable or scalable option for most operations.
How does an entrepreneur, and a starving one at that, build a team of like-minded, competent, individuals who will work with […]
Hi my name is Patrick Cushing. This is my blog about early stage web entrepreneurship. What's that mean, anyway?
Contact me at pcushing [at] enterventure [dot] com.
