Articles about Advice – Page 8 of 11

Best of Startup Day: What is convertible debt and how does it work?

Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at… Read More

How to keep your big business from acting like a startup

Much has been written — including my last column on GeekWire —about why it’s important for new businesses and startups to keep… Read More

Appature’s Kabir Shahani: ‘We’re very oriented towards obsoleting ourselves’

Kabir Shahani and his team at Appature want to help marketers create intensely personal customer experiences. How are they going… Read More

13 ways to nail your pitch to angel investment groups

Below I am going to focus on the stuff that I wish I would have know when I started pitching… Read More

Rand Fishkin’s top 11 startup tips to earn free customers

Editor’s note: Team GeekWire is attending the GROW conference in Vancouver, B.C. this week, covering some of the talks. … Read More

Best of Startup Day: Angel investor Dave McClure — don’t do a startup you idiot!

Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at… Read More

Q&A: What it really takes to land a killer technology job

Software engineer Gayle Laakmann McDowell has worked for companies including Microsoft, Google and Apple, but she’s also known in the… Read More

Matt Hulett’s startup advice: ‘Money makes you soft’

Matt Hulett, a self-described “late-bloomer” in the tech space, started out shrink-wrapping software in the 80s and is now leading… Read More

Best of Startup Day: Todd Hooper on finding customers

Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd at… Read More

Best of Startup Day: Tony Wright on how to pick a startup idea

Editor’s Note: We’ve got a fantastic lineup of speakers on tap for GeekWire’s Startup Day, taking place Saturday, Sept. 22nd… Read More

Game of Thrones: Corporate Edition

When you play The Game of Thrones, you play to win. For those who read the books or watch the… Read More

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz on search, startups, sticking it out

Rand Fishkin is changing the way that Internet marketers do their jobs. He and his team at SEOmoz are part of… Read More

Confessions of a founder dad

It was Saturday night at 8:12 p.m. and the screaming had just begun. The source of it? My two-and-a-half-year old… Read More

7 ways to get other people to read for you

Want to read more, but just don’t have the time? Let someone else read for you! It’s not crazy. There… Read More

Our startup’s pivot: Three important lessons we learned

More than any other word, pivot has come to define startup life. Without the pivot, YouTube would have been a… Read More

Beyond online advertising into knowledge monetization

Each year, investors sink $2 million in U.S. Internet companies per every million dollars of total online advertising addressable opportunity:… Read More

In heartfelt message, Buster Benson pulls plug on Habit Labs (pledges to keep trudging along)

In the excitement that swirls around startups, sometimes we often forget that most entrepreneurial ventures end in failure. That’s why… Read More

What’s positive about Washington’s new Social Purpose Corporations

Suppose you are the CEO and board chair of a company that is in the process of a sale transaction.… Read More

Startup vet Bob Crimmins: A huge chasm between good ideas and good businesses

SURF Incubator, Seattle’s newest startup incubator, celebrated its launch last week at its new facility in the Exchange Building in… Read More

4 takeaways from a different type of startup competition

Between Startup Weekend, AngelHack and StudentRND you could spend every weekend hacking in this town. And that’s just this month.… Read More

Nine ways to make your morning more productive

How often does your morning live up to expectations? If you’re like me, you go to bed at night expecting… Read More

Surprising lessons I learned winning a pitch competition

thump thump…. thump thump….. thump thump……. My heart rate was starting to rise. As I looked around the room I noticed… Read More

3 keys to successful crowdfunding campaigns

There’s change in the air. Entrepreneurs I talk to can smell it. Especially those that are focused on consumer products. … Read More

Dear self: Startup training starts right now

I think it’s really easy for developers to forget how much power they have. Designers too. Even with all of… Read More

11 key tips to stay productive while on the go

It’s hard enough to stay productive in the office or at your desk – with your full array of resources,… Read More

The 10 most important things I learned launching a startup

I thought launching a startup would be fun. After all, I was finally executing an idea that I’d dreamed of… Read More

Introducing GeekWire’s new resource center for startups

Startups are a critical component of the Seattle region’s tech industry, and a big part of GeekWire’s mission is to… Read More

Book Excerpt: Why a car crash couldn’t stop Zynga from revolutionizing gaming

[Editor’s Note: Seattle-area journalist Carol Tice is the co-author, with serial entrepreneur David Lester, of the new book How They Started:… Read More

Startup advice from Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens: Move fast, because speed matters

For the past few years, Keith Vernon of Bristlecone Advisors has taken the stage at the University of Washington’s annual… Read More

10 mental traits of truly innovative leaders

Ever since I was young I’ve always loved thinking of ways to fix things, build products and make money. And,… Read More