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Underpants or Emails?
Startup News couldn’t return without Lean Hackman, so we persuaded the old warhorse to stop messing about and write some more vitriol for our amusement and edification...
Dear Startup Founder, the Government Owes You Nothing
All this talk about needing government grants, begging for tax breaks for innovative companies and the like makes me wonder if the startup community has an inflated sense of entitlement. What happened to personal responsibility? In a caring society w..
Public vs Private: Fight!
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the M2K party a while back. If you weren’t there then you missed an excellent piss-up. Congrats to the Morning Startup team for organising it. I was all over the place, drunk as a Leaver clutching a half-..
Lets All Raise Money and Burn It Faster Than You Can Say Innovate
There’s something to be said for being self funded. Every buck you spend is yours, and you’re going to do it wisely. Not so if you raise some significant coin. I’m known to be a nosy little parker, so when I was enjoying some rare ..
6 Startup Statements That Prove You Deserve a Punch in the Face
We’ve all heard about ‘building influence’ and creating ‘thought leadership’. If you think those are bad, here are six statements that are so incredibly annoying, that if you were to say them, I believe you need a five ..
The Opposite Of Lean is Shite
Lean Startup comes in for more than it’s fair share of abuse, especially recently as the corporate consultant bullshit artists start using it...
Make the World a Better Place: Start with Stopping the Bulls&$t
We’re all hard at work, building a new category of businesses that couldn’t have been attempted a few decades ago. Scalable globally, and with the low overheads that technology now allows us to have. It’s great, it’s truly inspiring, but is t..
Are You Just a Schmuck with an Idea?
Last time, I took a swipe at those angel investors out there, who are nothing more than hot air. Now, let’s look at another crazy ass phenomenon – the startup founder. I seem to attract a certain type of ‘founder & CEO’ ty..
The Sad Secret of My Angel Investor Friend
I have this friend, who for the sake of anonymity, we’ll call Frank. Frank is an angel investor. It says so on his social media bios, he is a member of all the angel investing LinkedIn groups, and even has an angel list account. Frank went s..
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