Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Silicon Prairie—early stage ventures and entrepreneurial ecosystems are popping up everywhere. Great ideas can start anywhere, but how do they become…
J. Kelly HoeyApril 9, 2019
Venture capital is a critical source of funding for innovation, but how do you know which sectors are tech bubbles in the making? What are…
J. Kelly HoeyApril 7, 2019
Hmmmmm. A call from a startup founder this week. Sales funnel sucks. Cap table is a mess. You KNOW where this is headed…a pivot at…
J. Kelly HoeyMarch 6, 2019
A recent email from a startup founder that was worth sharing my response to as the question the founder asked, in some form or another,…
J. Kelly HoeyApril 16, 2018
It must be Monday because I’m both drowning in emails from founders seeking help and deafened by the silence from startups I expected to hear…
J. Kelly HoeyFebruary 12, 2018
This. This = a founding team. This = a product or service. This….typically is someone looking for a door to funding or business or media…
J. Kelly HoeyJanuary 9, 2018
Fall. When the leaves turn, the intensity of getting sh#t done increases (as the end of the year looms in the not so “is it…
J. Kelly HoeyOctober 17, 2017
Starting a business is hard. Things, a million little and big things, can and will go wrong — and you’ll torment yourself over the possibilities before you…
J. Kelly HoeySeptember 14, 2016