Blue Sky Partners

"I have 6,000 contacts. Which ones should I be talking to?" asks Andy Wilson, co-founder and CEO of Pasadena, California-based startup Rexter. "It used to be answered by intuition, but...

Read or listen to Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the first espousers of The Lean Startup, and the philosophy seems pretty straightforward: Building a company involves following a systematic process...

In the "been there, done that" category of mistakes that you should only make once, I would award a place of high honor to the idea that startups should spend...

"It was OK, except for the ending." Have you ever heard that said about a movie? It's a common review of movies that have great special effects, an outstanding cast...

You wake up with it in the morning and go to bed thinking about it at night: an ever-crushing load of emails, meetings, conference calls, and tasks that needed to...

Did you know that running a small business from your home can help you lower your tax bill? If you work from a home office and meet certain criteria, you...

Within five minutes of meeting me, GT Dave, creator of the wildly popular fermented probiotic beverage GT's Kombucha, tells me the story of his conception: Late one night, his father...

When it comes to creating a loyal following of dedicated consumers, there are no silver bullets. For every company that has found a successful path, there are many more who...

In 2012, Element Case founder Jeff Sasaki went to a Hong Kong tech-nology fair to scout manufacturers for his high-end iPhone cases. What he found instead was three companies showing...