http://startitup.indieword.com/person/4150 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:50:05 GMT Comments by Jonathan Tanner <p>Agreed! This is a very subtle point that is rarely discussed, but often occurs. On my 1st venture, I retained my lead investor&#8217;s attorney, &#38; 6 years later, it really came back to haunt me when I was pushed out of the company. Founders need to be bold &#38; position the use of indie counsel as a mature way to avoid conflict of interest. Great article and advice!</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6167 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6167 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:50:05 GMT Jonathan Tanner <p>Agreed! This is a very subtle point that is rarely discussed, but often occurs. On my 1st venture, I retained my lead investor&#8217;s attorney, &#38; 6 years later, it really came back to haunt me when I was pushed out of the company. Founders need to be bold &#38; position the use of indie counsel as a mature way to avoid conflict of interest. Great article and advice!</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6169 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6169 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:02:43 GMT Jonathan Tanner <p>Agreed! This is a very subtle point that is rarely discussed, but often occurs. On my 1st venture, I retained my lead investor&#8217;s attorney, &#38; 6 years later, it really came back to haunt me when I was pushed out of the company. Founders need to be bold &#38; position the use of indie counsel as a mature way to avoid conflict of interest. Great article and advice!</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6170 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6170 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:04:17 GMT Jonathan Tanner <p>Agreed! This is a very subtle point that is rarely discussed, but often occurs. On my 1st venture, I retained my lead investor&#8217;s attorney, &#38; 6 years later, it really came back to haunt me when I was pushed out of the company. Founders need to be bold &#38; position the use of indie counsel as a mature way to avoid conflict of interest. Great article and advice!</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6171 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/the-two-degrees#content_6171 Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:04:26 GMT Jonathan Tanner <p>I’ve always loved the parallels between filmmaking and start-ups. Every aspect of development, pre-production, production, post-production, marketing, and distribution that goes into putting a film on the silver screen has comparables in the world of business building. And both are collaborative works where a whole team must make meaningful contributions to execute the vision of the founder/director/producer.</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/surviving-the-tests#content_9523 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/surviving-the-tests#content_9523 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:16:17 GMT Jonathan Tanner <p>Business 2.0 is awesome! This is terrible news! Several start-ups, Fortune500 companies, consultants, VCs, and Angels I deal with all say they use the magazine for biz dev, research, and biz model justification. B2.0 fills the white space between Inc/Entrepreneur and Forbes/Fortune/BizWeek.</p> <p>Yes, it is painful for a founder to see his &#8220;baby&#8221; die. 18 months after I left my &#8220;baby&#8221;, the &#8220;stewards&#8221; took the company from 8-figures in annual sales to <span class="caps">ZERO</span>. The death of Business 2.0 is doubly painful to me.</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/business2-gone#content_10341 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/business2-gone#content_10341 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:36:28 GMT Jonathan Tanner <p>Beautiful &#8220;Good Samaritan&#8221; story. Oh, and a great lesson too. Talk about perspective. Bravo!</p> http://startitup.indieword.com/view/risk-everything#content_11050 http://startitup.indieword.com/view/risk-everything#content_11050 Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:19:37 GMT Jonathan Tanner