Thomas Fabritius Eskebæk

(Editor’s note: Jason Katz is Founder and CEO of Paltalk, an interactive video community. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
The word “freemium” may be less than four years old, but the business model it describes – offering basic service…

(Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
The two most common errors in positioning a company against competition are, strangely, opposites. Some entrepreneur…

(Editor’s note: Greg Collier is the founder and CEO of Geebo.com, an online classified advertising site. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
When I launched Geebo.com in May 2000, the goal was simple: Provide a web-based alternative to newspape…

The idea that “the best product doesn’t always win” is something that gets repeated fairly often, but Phil Libin, chief executive of notekeeping and memory aid startup Evernote, declared recently that it’s “complete and utter bullshit, totall…

(Editor’s note: Kevin Lawton is a serial entrepreneur. This post originally appeared on his blog.)
It’s a rough time for start-ups seeking financing. Venture capital firms may have loosened the purse strings somewhat, but finding that magic formula…

(Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
I remember “disruptive” when it was called “paradigm shift.” But while that phrase may have died during the …

Your startup might have the best product or service to come dancing down the pike in years, but that hardly guarantees success, according to Liz Tinkham, a global manager at Accenture. In this Entrepreneur Thought Leader Lecture given last month at Sta…

Bryan Menell is the cofounder and managing director of Capital Factory, a seed-stage mentoring program for technology companies. He is also the publisher of AustinStartup, which highlights emerging technology companies in Austin.
In the bad old dotcom…

(Editor’s note: Marty Abbott and Michael Fisher are partners with AKF Partners and have recently published The Art of Scalability. They submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
You can learn a lot of things in the classroom.
A lot of the knowledge you

(Editor’s note: Dharmesh Shah is a serial software entrepreneur and the founder and CTO of HubSpot, which provides marketing software for small businesses. This column originally appeared on his blog. )
For some reason, I like wordsmithing and tryin…