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The entrepreneurial journey: Bugcrowd, startups, products, the founder's path

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Using Viral Landing Pages to Go from 0 to 1500 Leads in 7 Days for $15

I was approached with a simple brief… The client, a start-up rookie trying to make a break from his 9-to-5 as a builder, wanted to have some level of comfort that the i

By Casey Ellis · 28 Dec 2011
Hot Takes

Auction Sniping 101

This is a quick little how-to that will hopefully save a few people some pain. I’m going to presume you know what eBay is and how their auctions work. eBay auctions are

By Casey Ellis · 13 Dec 2011
Building

Mike Montiero – f*** you. Pay me.

Excuse the profanity, but this is really worth watching. [2011/03 Mike Monteiro F*** You. Pay Me.](http://vimeo.com/22053820) from San Francisco Creative Mornings on

By Casey Ellis · 14 Nov 2011
Building

How to Kill a Startup — an Email I Should Have Sent 2 Years Ago

Sellerwise.net was my first real tech start-up. As a business it had a lot of potential – a genuine need in the market, lack of competition, a massive potential custome

By Casey Ellis · 18 Oct 2011
Building

Invention Is a flower, Innovation Is a Weed

“Here’s the difference between a visionary and an entrepreneur. Both have visions, which are a dime a dozen. But an entrepreneur has, in addition to visions, plans. In

By Casey Ellis · 17 Oct 2011
Building

Definition of an Entrepreneur

entrepreneur (n): a person who’s prepared to work 16 hours a day for themselves to avoid working 8 hours a day for someone else. …hat tip to Nick Ellsmore for that

By Casey Ellis · 12 Oct 2011
Building

A Little Less Conversation – the Ascending Close

An interesting trend in Internet marketing is to deliberately under-inform prospects re what your product is about. You provide just enough info to get them to click on

By Casey Ellis · 10 Oct 2011
Building

What Is the Tall Poppy Group

If I’m really honest I’d have to say that I don’t really know what the Tall Poppy Group is yet. I know what I want it to be – But how does one describe across the gap b

By Casey Ellis · 25 Sep 2011
Hot Takes

What Is a Board

The word “corporation” was originally a shipping term – A group of people would pool their resources to fund and form a corporation which was usually an expedition to go

By Casey Ellis · 12 Sep 2011
Building

Outsourcing — Use a Nom De Plume

If you’re like me and have one identity that you use for everything here’s a tip that will save you a bunch of pain… Any time you go out to market offering work, asking

By Casey Ellis · 09 Aug 2011
Policy

Privacy and Confidentiality — Yours or mine?

WARNING: Mild rant ahead. I’m writing this post to out a particular behavior that I am seeing more and more often lately. Example 1: Whilst activating a prepaid

By Casey Ellis · 21 Jul 2011