Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Lesson #183: The Top 12 Reasons to Protect Your Trademarks
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/29/2014A trademark is that word, phrase, symbol, logo or design that sets your goods or services apart and distinguishes you from all the rest....
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Is Your Startup Building a "Vitamin" or a "Painkiller"?
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/24/2014I once heard a great entrepreneurial panel discussion, including Mahendra Vora, the founder of Intelliseek (sold to Nielsen) and now a Cinci...
[NEWS] University of Chicago Booth School Now Accepting Applications for New Venture and Small Enterprise Lab
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/24/2014Client applications are now being accepted for the New Venture and Small Enterprise Lab at the University of Chicago Booth School of Busines...
Friday, July 18, 2014
[VIDEO] George Deeb Presents "The Birth of the Startup Excubator" at Techweek Chicago 2014
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/18/2014In case you missed it, here is the presentation made by Red Rocket's George Deeb at Techweek Chicago on June 27, 2014. On behalf of th...
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Create an "Everyone Sells" Culture
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/17/2014The common fault in the thinking of many entrepreneurs is that revenues will only be driven by the sales team, and the sales team alone. T...
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Lesson #182: Doing the "Smoke and Mirrors" Dance
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/15/2014Oftentimes, a magician uses "smoke and mirrors" to make something disappear, right before your eyes. With early-stage entrepr...
Monday, July 14, 2014
Age is Just a Number When It Comes to Entrepreneurial Success
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/14/2014For years, people have tried to correlate an entrepreneur’s age when they launched their startup, with the ultimate success of that startup....
Thursday, July 10, 2014
The Top 5 Considerations When Trading Equity for Services
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/10/2014Giving up equity in your business, as an alternative to paying cash, often sounds like a great idea to cash starved startups. But, giving u...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Lesson #181: Should You Quit Your Full-Time Job Before Launching a Startup
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/08/2014Many entrepreneurs today work on their startups at night, while they are still working their full-time day jobs. The question is: should ...
Thursday, July 3, 2014
Try to Kill Your Startup Before You Start
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/03/2014I had the pleasure of sitting on an investor panel with Joe Dwyer, a partner at Founder Equity Fund and good colleague of mine. He made a v...
Growth Hacking: Marketing for Startups
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/03/2014The term “growth hacker” was first introduced in a blog post by Sean Ellis in 2010. He summarized a growth hacker as “a person whose true ...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
[VIDEO] George Deeb Discusses How VC's Evaluate Startups with Nick Moran
Posted By: George Deeb - 7/02/2014Red Rocket's George Deeb recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Nick Moran at the Full Rachet to talk about how venture capitali...