Transparency: Too Much Or Not Enough In Your Startup Culture?

Rand Fishkin, CEO of SEOmoz, has a corporate culture of transparency. Rand spoke to the local chapter of the Entrepreneur Organization recently. Based on the story that he shared with us, it sounded like he was a person that was not very transparent in the early days of Moz. However, today Rand is more like […]

5 Things Startups Should Blog About

When you think about building a business around a product or service, the farthest thing from your mind may be starting a blog on your company’s website. That’s completely understandable, though the benefits of having a company blog can be well worth the effort. A company blog enables you to keep your customers (and investors) […]

What the Return on Investment Looks like on a Startup Like Pinterest

The return on investing in a startup can be really hard to anticipate. I was reading an article on Tech Crunch titled “The One That Got Away” which highlighted how one investor had the opportunity to invest in Pinterest but passed. Let’s get real about investing in startups first before we talk about what happens […]

50/50 Equity Split Among Co-founders

It’s never a good idea. We hosted a Founder Institute event tonight and Dave Parker said something like “If you go 50/50 with your cofounder, you’ve already failed as a CEO. You can’t even make the first tough decision right”. I totally agree — there’s a ton of decisions that a CEO has to make […]

Massage Day at thinkspace | Prime Spine Bellevue Chiropractic & Massage

We’re excited to have our first Massage Day here at thinkspace! A big thanks to Dr. Baker and his team (Ashley and Gina) from Prime Spine Bellevue Chiropractic & Massage! Date: August 28, 2012 Times: 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 4pm Open to the thinkspace Community! Dr. Ben Baker is a graduate of Northwestern […]

Future of Mobile: Where's it all headed?

The world is on fire about “mobile”. Yes, it’s old news (early 2012) the number of smartphone sales has exceeded the number of PC sales. Ok, but where are things really headed? If you’re a small business is now the time to think about making sure that you’re website is mobile friendly? I just looked […]