Category Archives: Startups
Why Registration Forms Need to Delight
I talk a lot about how startups need to delight users to have any chance of success in a fast-moving world with no lack of competition. The delight needs to happen throughout the user experience, not just when someone starts … Continue reading
When Technology Struggles to Find a Solution
In the wake of Zite’s success and sale to CNN a few month ago, Zite founder Ali Davar made an interesting comment at the meshwest conference earlier this week when he said the company spent “five years in start-up hell” … Continue reading
Eternal Optimism and the Startup Entrepreneur
In Saturday’s Globe & Mail, Margaret Wente had a good read on how most people tend to be optimistic even when it’s pretty obvious they’re not going to be successful. “Optimism is the engine of capitalism,” she wrote. “It is the signal … Continue reading
Pressly Pressing the Right Buttons
In addition to writing this blog, I write a twice-a-week online column for the Globe & Mail’s “Start” section about entrepreneurs and start-ups. With the growing number of interesting start-ups, I’ve been writing profiles on a growing number of companies. … Continue reading
Long Live the Newsletter!
When you think about the e-newsletter, it seems like an old-school marketing tool. With inboxes overflowing, who would be willing to sign up for a newsletter and, as important, who has time to read them? Well, it turns out newsletters … Continue reading
Is Having Too Much Money Bad for Startups?
In a post yesterday on StartupNorth, iNovia Capital’s Chris Arsenault put the spotlight on three large VC deals that were recently announced – Beyond the Rack, Fixmo and Shopify. Hist post included interesting commentary about the size of the deals, … Continue reading
