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 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 […]
It’s true. Getting Real by 37signals gave me the chills.
Several months ago I asked my friend Laks to recommend a good book that would really help me better understand how software should be done. For the past two years, I’ve worked in two completely different environments and seen two completely different ways of […]
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 […]
Early entrepreneurs are typically just brimming with ideas. There’s almost too many of them. You might know you want to start a business. The real trouble is knowing which one, or better, which part of which one?
You might know you want to start a website, but it’s tempting to imagine your site […]
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.
