Do you believe entrepreneurs are born or are a product of their environment?

Both. We all have inside us the ability to be a business operator, I believe. We get the confidence to try from our environment.

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I am in the middle of putting the business plan together for a website start up... I unfortunately do not have the funds to even finance a quarter of this project which I p...

Answered by Brian Temins – Partner at Minden Gross LLP.

I suggest you be proactive and tell the potential investor what you want. Don't be greedy but do recognize that you will almost certainly be negotiated down. As far as loan... (more)

Do you believe in private beta launches or do you think companies should launch direct to public?

Answered by April Dunford – Product Marketing Expert. Posted in Product Development Marketing

There are a set of reasons you might want to do a private beta including: you want to control the # of users you bring on board at once for scalability reasons, you are exp... (more)

I own and run a web design & development company and my question is how do you ramp up your employees or team when you haven't landed a significant amount of contracts to e...

Answered by Jen Evans – Founder, Sequentia Environics

This is the challenge of business growth. Growth is the goal, but what no one ever tells you is how expensive growth is. I started Sequentia Environics with $11K in cash an... (more)

Raymond, You have an innovative idea that you need to move on quickly: How do you remain focused on one idea at a time and reduce distractions that arise from other "...

Answered by Raymond Luk – Partner, Year One Labs

I'm not sure if you mean a product idea or multiple company ideas. Focus is something that's easy to achieve if you have a clear idea, have identified and spoken to your ta... (more)

Do you believe in giving away product for free?

Answered by April Dunford – Product Marketing Expert. Posted in Money Product Development

Sure, depending on how you do it. For example I've been in charge of many products where we've given the single-seat version away for free but charged for group use and th... (more)

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