Yes, lack of cash flow can kill any business, but it seems to hurt more in business partnerships. 

First, there's the denial phase ("sure, we can continue to meet expenses and take our monthly draws").  Then, there's the belt-tightening phase ("we'll hunker down, but this, too, shall pass").  And then, like a slowly seeping poison, there's the finger-pointing stage ("you're taking more than your fair share"; "you authorized paying for that new co...

Before I started TechStars, I was looking around for a few opportunities to get involved with interesting new startups as a founding CTO. A couple of really interesting ones came along, and I remember having to make a conscious decision between starting TechStars and doing another startup.

I distinctly remember one (great) guy who was recruiting me be his co-founder saying something like “You can always do something like TechStars later in life, ...

1. Invest in Your Employees.

The most valuable, the most productive, asset for every company is theemployee. The employee is the asset that creates the strategy and thenexecutes it to deliver the brand that makes the customers happy whotell their friends who become customers who experience the brand whotell their friends...The employee finds innovative solutions to newchallenges, works the long hours away from their family, finds newproducts...A ...