Seeking Better Startup Founder Agreements
		Monday, 28 October 2024
		
	
	
    Ever see a pie chart like this, or can you at least envision one, wherein a partner of yours (or God-forbid, you), expect a majority control of a startup? I get asked all the time, about how to handle retaining control when it was my idea or how to deal with a cofounder who wants
    - Published in Insights / Research, Startups
 
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Seek the Contrarian: What to Expect of a Good Entrepreneurship Program
		Tuesday, 15 October 2024
		
	
	
    In a speech in Paris, in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt remarked the often encouraged, “Comparison Is the Thief of Joy.” That, when we compare ourselves to others, we rob ourselves of our own happiness as, through comparison, we either feel a sense of inferiority or superiority. What we see in entrepreneurship and among founders is this
    - Published in Insights / Research, Local, Startup Ecosystems, Startups
 
Startups Solving Founders’ Problems are Failing
		Monday, 30 September 2024
		
	
	
    Here’s a problem that you might address as a startup founder: other startup founders struggle to find problems to take on, to come up with ideas to address, and to expose issues in industries, so that they might launch a successful venture presenting a solution to that problem. How do I know this is a
    - Published in Industry, Insights / Research, Startups
 
Founders, North Texas is the World’s FinTech Hub
		Friday, 20 September 2024
		
	
	
    “You’re really seeing a whole new North Texas ecosystem,” noted H. Ross Perot, Jr., son of the former presidential candidate, about the phenomenon other investors have termed a finance invasion making me cringe a bit (if I’m being honest) at being termed Y’all Street. Perot Jr. sold the Dallas Mavericks basketball team to Mark Cuban
    - Published in FinTech, Industry, Insights / Research, Regional Development, Startups
 
How Startup Ecosystem Builders Start Ecosystems
		Tuesday, 10 September 2024
		
	
	
    I’d bet, if you were to look to the ecosystem surrounding your work, you’d see some meetups, a local startup group on Facebook, a business or technology journalist at the newspaper as the person known for covering startups, some coworking spaces, and perhaps a distinct innovation hub supported by the City or Chamber, right in
    - Published in Featured, Industry, Insights / Research, Startup Ecosystems, Startups
 
“I have an Idea but lack Experience or Startup Capital…”
		Monday, 09 September 2024
		
	
	
    This is one of those frequently heard statements that helps a startup ecosystem recognize that gaps remain. Last week, I pushed founders and economists to recognize the distinction between innovation and technology (between startups and businesses), and from that, I was asked for advice too frequently asked, “How can I capitalize on an app idea
    - Published in Raising Capital, Startups
 







