by Dr. Kate Siner | Oct 31, 2013 | Dr. Kate's Blog
Without any further ado and in their own words, here are some of the biggest mistakes and lessons learned from 13 successful entrepreneurs. 1. “We wasted $1,000,000 on a company that never launched” Hiten Shah, Co-Founder at KISSmetrics My co-founder and I spent...
by Dr. Kate Siner | Oct 29, 2013 | Dr. Kate's Blog
When Steve Blank appeared on the cover of Wired magazine 19 years ago, his company then, Rocket Science Games, was expected to revolutionize the videogame industry. At the time, Blank didn\’t let the skepticism of critics faze him. \”I thought I was a...
by Dr. Kate Siner | Oct 26, 2013 | Dr. Kate's Blog
It is only a failure when you give up. You have heard this, right? Easy to remember in retrospect and more difficult to stay in touch with when we are face to face with less than stellar results. It so easy to think that our failure really is a cosmic message that...
by Dr. Kate Siner | Oct 20, 2013 | Dr. Kate's Blog
Look at the world around you. Everything alive breaths in and out. If you dig a hole in the dirt it fills with air or water or something. Everything is in a constant exchange. It is the natural way of things. However, we seem to feel that it is somehow unsafe to let...
by Dr. Kate Siner | Oct 17, 2013 | Dr. Kate's Blog
Life pulls us in many directions. No matter the phase of development our work is in, we can get caught in the tangle of competing interest and loss of motivation. While I think it is unlikely, and perhaps even unproductive, to always stay on track, there are tools for...