1. Grants: A variety of private foundations and governmental agencies offer these grants and loans, but finding one that you qualify for may be...

Pick good cofounders. Cofounders are for a startup what location is for real estate. You can change anything about a house except where it is. In a...

Avoid distractions. Nothing kills startups like distractions. The worst type are those that pay money: day jobs, consulting, profitable side-projects....

Don't get demoralized. Though the immediate cause of death in a startup tends to be running out of money, the underlying cause is usually lack of...

Don't give up. Even if you get demoralized, don't give up. You can get surprisingly far by just not giving up. This isn't true in all fields. There...

Deals fall through. One of the most useful skills we learned from Viaweb was not getting our hopes up. We probably had 20 deals of various types fall...

Launch fast. The reason to launch fast is not so much that it's critical to get your product to market early, but that you haven't really started...

Launch fast. The reason to launch fast is not so much that it's critical to get your product to market early, but that you haven't really started...

Let your idea evolve. This is the second half of launching fast. Launch fast and iterate. It's a big mistake to treat a startup as if it were merely a...

Understand your users. You can envision the wealth created by a startup as a rectangle, where one side is the number of users and the other is how...