Insights: A Sampling of Writings
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I Told You We Were in a Startup Boom
And it seems to be raging even more. Thank you, Great Resignation. You’ve started something big. A new survey from Digital.com has found 43% of…
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Brad Feld On ‘When to Quit Your Day Job’
(This post first appeared at MinneInno.com, “Your Source for Local Innovation in Minnesota: Innovation, Startups, and Tech.”) Few VCs have the success record of Brad…
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What Is Positioning?
If there’s a marketing term that gets thrown around more than any other, it’s “positioning.” I can’t imagine a marketing plan out there that doesn’t contain…
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What Is a Brand?
In my continuing theme of talking about the basics of marketing, I’m moving on to a favorite topic: branding. Again, I’m harking back to some…
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Naming Your Startup: 7 Tips for Success
Once you’ve made the decision to launch a new business and have at least the basic resources in place to get started, undoubtedly one of…
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There’s Something You Need to Know About Startup Marketing
Here’s a bulletin: it’s damn hard! Okay, that may not be news to you if you’ve done at least one startup. But what’s not well known is that…
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Reflections & Analysis About Innovation, Technology, and Startups
Those are the words I chose to describe my tech blog, Graeme Thickins On Tech, which I launched in 2005. Over those dozen years, I’ve…
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Bootstrapping: Why Do Entrepreneurs Do It, and How?
The word “bootstrapping” actually has several meanings according to Wikipedia. But in a business context, it means “to start a business without external help (capital).”…
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Why a Coach?
As I launch this new Entrepreneur Coaching site of mine, I thought it would be helpful to step back and talk a bit about “The…
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I Told You We Were in a Startup Boom
And it seems to be raging even more. Thank you, Great Resignation. You’ve started something big. A new survey from Digital.com has found 43% of…
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Surfing the Waves of Technology
So, all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, right? I can’t just do all these Flipboard magazines focused on work stuff! A…
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AI Gets Real
Once again, I became really interested in a rapidly emerging area of technology: artificial intelligence, or AI. And, again, my interest was being fed by…
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Drones at Work
Another interest of mine that started in about 2012 was drone technology, as I had an opportunity to work with a startup that had developed…
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Healthcare Tech News
Once I’d had success with one Flipboard magazine, I was anxious to create more. The next one was Healthcare Tech News – “Tracking the amazing…
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Big Data in the Wild
The first magazine I launched on the Flipboard platform was Big Data in the Wild – “Real-world examples of how big data is making big…
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My Flipboard Magazines
Remember when the iPad first launched? I sure do. I was right there on Day One at the Apple Store, as I usually am for…
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Brad Feld On ‘When to Quit Your Day Job’
(This post first appeared at MinneInno.com, “Your Source for Local Innovation in Minnesota: Innovation, Startups, and Tech.”) Few VCs have the success record of Brad…
Read more...
What Is Positioning?
If there’s a marketing term that gets thrown around more than any other, it’s “positioning.” I can’t imagine a marketing plan out there that doesn’t contain…
Read more...
What Is a Brand?
In my continuing theme of talking about the basics of marketing, I’m moving on to a favorite topic: branding. Again, I’m harking back to some…
Read more...
Naming Your Startup: 7 Tips for Success
Once you’ve made the decision to launch a new business and have at least the basic resources in place to get started, undoubtedly one of…
Read more...
There’s Something You Need to Know About Startup Marketing
Here’s a bulletin: it’s damn hard! Okay, that may not be news to you if you’ve done at least one startup. But what’s not well known is that…
Read more...
Reflections & Analysis About Innovation, Technology, and Startups
Those are the words I chose to describe my tech blog, Graeme Thickins On Tech, which I launched in 2005. Over those dozen years, I’ve…
Read more...
Bootstrapping: Why Do Entrepreneurs Do It, and How?
The word “bootstrapping” actually has several meanings according to Wikipedia. But in a business context, it means “to start a business without external help (capital).”…
Read more...
Why a Coach?
As I launch this new Entrepreneur Coaching site of mine, I thought it would be helpful to step back and talk a bit about “The…
Read more...