Communication Best Practices

24th March, 2015 No Comments Blog , CoVenture , Fundraising

Communication is one of the most important skills in business; perhaps in life.  Recently, I saw David Tisch talk about communication best practices in a lecture at Cornell Tech.  I agreed with nearly everything he said and made me think someone should write a blog post on the topic.  He was kind enough to let […]

Staffing an Experiment: Selling Before Hiring

2nd March, 2015 No Comments CoVenture

Steve Blank, Eric Ries and others have observed that a startup is a fundamentally different type of organization than an established company.  Paraphrasing these observations:  an established company exists to deliver a product to customers as efficiently as possible, while a startup exists to determine what product to deliver, to whom and how.  I believe […]