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Collapsed Civilizations and Startup Risks

Jared Diamond's new book, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, provides a simple framework of five forces that lead to collapse: environmental damage and population growth, climate change, hostile neighbors, weakened trade partners and failure to solve societal problems.  I thought I would mash it up with the Techcrunch Deadpool:

Great Tips For Startups

ReadWriteWeb has 36 great tips for startups. One thing I’d add to that list: make sure you use every tool you can to help get your story out. The startups that have gotten the best reputation with bloggers have been the ones that show up to conferences and little events around town, do videos, Twitter, AND do everything that ReadWriteWeb talks about.

When You Might Not Need a Startup Lawyer

First off, let me begin with a disclaimer: I AM NOT A LAWYER, I don't play one on TV and I don't play golf with lawyers on Sundays (I don't play golf at all). None of the content from this article or any other article on this blog should be taken as legal advice. If you have a situation that does require professional legal advice, please seeklegal counsel.

Why Startups Have Less Dilbertian, Pointy-Haired Bosses

If the title of this article made you smile, then chances are that at some point in your life you've worked for a big company and/or been subjected to a Dlibertian pointy-haired boss/manager. If you're not familiar with the stereotype of the pointy-haired boss, wander on over to The Dilbert Site.

Legal Suicide For Startups In The Web 2.0 World

An interesting CNet article on the nine major ways that any startup can commit legal suicide in the Web 2.0 world, and what you need to be aware of legally with your company or application. The cool part is that if you were not careful, your company is probably already in violations that no one ever thought of while cranking out those great Web 2.0 applications. Probably the most intriguing, and one from experience that is easily understood is cooperating with the police.

Startups - The Involved Vs. The Committed

I'm going to refrain from starting this off with the story about the chicken and the pig (there's something about the former being involved and the latter being committed).