Startup Spark

March 13th, 2008

4 ways to increase your chances for startup success

When starting a business, there’s no guarantee of success, even when you have unique skills, experience, knowledge and talents.
But you can increase your chances in any given opportunity:

Never stop learning. By continuing your ‘education’, you’ll build a habit that will serve as a guarantee against “being left behind or missing the boat”.  Always be reading […]

By ShannonCherry -- 1 comment

December 18th, 2006

Why Ideas Suck

The naysayers have gotten to me.
Ideas are worthless.
But, they actually miss the entire reason why that’s the case.
Mark Cuban on the other hand, gets it. He recently wrote a blog post titled Success and Motivation: Drowning in Opportunity / Winning the Battles You Are In.
He’s listed 3 rules he uses when starting a new business […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 5 comments

December 14th, 2006

The Long Tail of an Idea

The long tail is a well-recognized term and concept. Chris Anderson’s blog is a great, insightful read and in many ways inspirational to the scrappy, little blogger that could.
I often think of how the long tail concept applies to ideas. What happens during the validation process to see if an idea is worthwhile, and beyond […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 0 comments

December 4th, 2006

Are You Sitting on the Next Killer Idea?

Let’s say you’ve got the personality to be a perfect entrepreneur (and you’re not built to be a crappy entrepreneur). You’ve also got an idea. Cha ching!
Contrary to what many people will tell you, ideas are not worthless. The argument goes that a business succeeds on execution, and not on the brilliance of the idea. […]

By Ben Yoskovitz -- 5 comments