Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
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If Financing is Marriage, is M&A Death?
Not a week goes by where I don’t get an email that goes like this: “I wanted to reconnect, as I've recently left [the company that bought my startup]. Long story, but suffice it to say their exe
CEO Bloggers: To Blog or Not to Blog
“Where do you get the time to write so much as a company CEO, and more importantly, shouldn’t you be closing deals or doing something more useful?”
Fair enough.
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The Future Of Content: Content Is The Future
Today, the Web’s infrastructure is built, the platforms have emerged; we’re now filling the pipes with content; mainly free, ad-supported content.
Anyone who’s worked in user-generated/approp
Is Technology A Zero-Sum Game?
In last week’s <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/24/get-rich-or-die-trying/">Get Rich or Die Trying</a> article, I mentioned that “tech is a zero-sum, winner takes all game”. A reader ob
Get Rich or Die Trying
<em>“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Ed
Why Entrepreneurs Fail And Most Startups Are DOA
This isn’t an anti-entrepreneur rant. It’s also not a piece to discourage anyone from launching their own business. It’s a warning for those who seek to launch their startup to understand some o
Entrepreneurs Are Difficult At Best And Abrasive at Worst — Get Over It
The greatest entrepreneurs follow their gut and as a result are perceived as difficult at best and abrasive at worst.
Most people who know me say I’m too diplomatic, but last week my advisor told
What A Love Doctor Taught Me About Fundraising
Oprah Winfrey recently <a href="http://www.oprah.com/own-oprahs-next-chapter/How-Youre-Defined-By-the-Stories-You-Tell-Yourself-Video">interviewed</a> Anthony Robbins, who talked about “how we're de
How To Get People To Do What You Want
Leadership in management is the art and science of getting others to do what they don’t necessarily want – or don't understand why they’re being asked – to do. Doing it at a startup is accompl
Seize Your Opportunities Like Jeremy Lin
Last week, Forbes contributor Eric Jackson published a <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/02/11/9-lessons-jeremy-lin-can-teach-us-before-we-go-to-work-monday-morning/">list</a> on t
Patience is a Virtue, for Losers
Patience is one of the seven virtues, the lesser-known cousins of the seven sins. And indeed, “patience <em>is</em> a virtue” – or so goes the saying. But another saying states that “fortu
Mark Zuckerberg’s 6 Ingredients For Success
Leadership guru Warren Bennis asked whether leaders are born or made. When asked if Wall Street would accept a young <a href="http://watchmojo.com/index.php?id=8709">Mark Zuckerberg</a> in his early 2
To Pivot or Not to Pivot
Ah, the internet – how you hijack our vocabulary. A few years ago, “embedded” had connotations of journalists following soldiers. Today, it’s most associated with YouTube clips. Similarl