Lean Startup guru Eric Ries joins HubSpot’s advisory board

Ries, who cofounded IMVU, and served as a venture advisor at Kleiner Perkins, pioneered the "lean startup" philosophy, which is based on originally Japanese concepts of waste-free processes.

Big data? I’d settle for any data at all

Most companies would be better off with any kind of data than they are today. An embarrassing number of business decisions are made without reference to real data.

30 minutes inside the mind of 8-time entrepreneur Steve Blank

It’s a fortunate man who can blow through $35 million one week, only to be offered $12 million the next.

For serial entrepreneur Steve Blank, this story sums up the ethos of Silicon Valley. The day he experienced the most …