One of the first questions people ask me when I talk about SyncPad is “did you guys raise money?” Now, while I’m not against raising money at the right time if needed, I find it sad that there’s a constant association between building a startup and raising VC/angel money. The beauty of today’s technologies is that you can build a profitable product with very little money. Thanks to things like cloud computing, low bandwidth costs, tons of freely available knowledge, people can build businesses investing just time and few thousands dollars. You don’t even have to quit your job to start a business if you don’t have savings/credit and you are really passionate about what your are building.

I found this video on the Kauffman Foundation website, and I found it very interesting. I highly recommend watching it.

This is a very rare footage of Steve Jobs during the early days of NeXT. What I find very fascinating is to see Jobs dealing with the same problems we startup entrepreneurs struggle every day. It is comforting to see that even what his considered to be the greatest entrepreneur of our age is hustling in order to meet impossible deadlines and pinch and scrape in order to lower their burn rate just like every other startup.

http://cloudplumbing.com/episode/davide-di-cillo-syncpad

Last week I had the chance to be a guess (for the second time) on CloudPlumbing, a great podcast hosted by Ryan Parsley about development and startups. 

I must admit, some of the heads are kinda creepy, but overall this is a great collection of quotes for entrepreneurs. More at http://StartupQuote.com →

Lately I’ve been pretty busy, especially thanks to FOWA and the upcoming SXSW, and my RSS reader is literally exploding; so I had to dive in for a little bit and I came back up with these seven pearls. If you are (or you want to be) an entrepreneur, you will learn a lot from these article:

• Customer Development for Web Startups
• Entrepreneurship, It’s Personal
• How to Save Money During the Early Days of a Startup
• The Entrepreneur Thesis
• Angels vs. Venture Capitalists
• Two different discussions about exits
• How to raise money without lying to investors

Do you have any article you would like to share about entrepreneurship? Post it in the comments!