At a recent talk on student entrepreneurship at McGill I received an audience question about the limited alignment between academic and entrepreneurial focus. This hit the nail on the head. Focus makes ventures succeed. Paul Graham goes as far as predicting instant death for companies funded by active graduate...
Tag: University & Tech Transfer
Frugality has become the watch word in the start-up blogsphere. It is rare to find a blog that doesn’t advocate lean business models, unpaid founders, and generally spending as little as possible. We are told that the new development tools dramatically lower the cost of your first product and...
As promised, here is the first detailed follow-up to the introductory post for the topic of university spin-offs versus conventional start-ups. One of the most common recommendations for entrepreneurs is to focus on customer engagement early in their new venture. In fact, a whole set of new online nomenclature...
The internet offers a lot of advice for start-ups – some good, a lot of it bad. In fact, giving advice has become a profitable industry all by itself with the inevitable impact on quantity and quality. Much of the good advice is focused on Web2.0 start-ups and often...