STARTUP BUSINESS ADVICE FOR ENTREPRENEURS

Most Founders Fail Before They Even Pitch Startup advice usually focuses on how to raise money. Better pitch decks. Better intros to investors. Better traction metrics. But the biggest mistake founders make happens before any of that. They raise venture capital for a company that was never meant to be venture-backed in the first place. That mismatch quietly kills many startups. Here are five mistakes founders make when chasing venture capital. 1. Not Asking: Is My Company Ven

BluSmart BluSmart was a startup with an ambitious goal of reinventing ride-hailing in India. The company promised everything Uber and Ola did not: electric vehicles rather than fossil-fuel vehicles, full-time salaried drivers rather than gig workers, fixed pricing rather than surge pricing, and full operational control from the app to the charging hub. For a moment, the model seemed to work. By 2023, BluSmart operated thousands of EVs across Delhi NCR, supported by its own ch

And more advice from Paul English , best known for Kayak, but who has started a dozen+ companies and nonprofits. Startups: Kayak, Supercal, Steppin, Lola, Xiangqi, GetHuman, Moonbeam, Deets, and Wellagram. Nonprofits: Embrace Boston, Summits Education in Haiti, Winter Walk for Homelessness, Institute for Applied AI, Bipolar Social Club Paul is also a TEDx speaker and a frequent lecturer on entrepreneurship, creativity, and stress reduction. 1.Don’t hire someone because they’