Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Jeff Bezos is one of the world’s most admired entrepreneurs, primarily because of his humble style and his growth from a regular person background to a current net worth in the neighborhood of $200 billion dollars. Significant inventions always take time, and involve failed experiments, causing negative short-term business results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 25, 2016

There are other social networks in the list of over 200 now recognized by Wikipedia that entrepreneurs use for networking, depending on where you are in the world, like Orkut, Netlog, and Sina Weibo, but talking to friends on Facebook probably won’t help you. Remember it helps to give a little to get something back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. business ecommerce entrepreneur startup' The cost of entry has never been lower.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Derek Norton: I just closed on a new fund, worth $5M, which I raised from a group of high net worth, high profile LPs. We're taking a bit of our playbook from First Round Capital, where, if you look at their website, they provide market help and raising their next round of capital. Tell us about the new fund?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. If you have a unique creation or invention, and you are not selling it around the world on the Internet, now is the time to start.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

There are other networks that also work, depending on where you are in the world, like Ryze, Plaxo, and Facebook, but setting up an account on MySpace probably won’t help you. Business groups like TiE-The Indus Entrepreneurs and EO-Entrepreneurs Organization are places to meet people you can help, as well as people who can help you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2021

These businesses are usually run out of the home, and cover the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce. Dal LaMagna, in his humorous classic “ Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right ,” leads with the foundational principle of micro-businesses, which is to start small. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. The objective is to provide more mentoring for startups, and actually getting in and helping them.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2018

These businesses are usually run out of the home, and cover the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce. Dal LaMagna, in his humorous classic “ Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right ,” leads with the foundational principle of micro-businesses, which is to start small. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These businesses are usually run out of the home, and range the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce. Dal LaMagna, in his humorous classic “ Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right ,” leads with the foundational principle of micro-businesses, which is to start small. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2013

These businesses are usually run out of the home, and range the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce. Dal LaMagna, in his humorous book “ Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right ,” leads with the foundational principle of micro-businesses, which is to start small. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

These businesses are usually run out of the home, and range the gamut from consulting services to e-commerce. Dal LaMagna, in his humorous recent book “ Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right ,” leads with the foundational principle of micro-businesses, which is to start small. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Microbusinesses are usually run out of the home, and range the gamut of consulting services to e-commerce. Dal LaMagna, in his humorous new book “ Raising Eyebrows: A Failed Entrepreneur Finally Gets It Right ,” leads with the foundational principle of microbusinesses, which is to start small. Keep a monthly profit-loss.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In my ongoing quest to get you good transcripts of the wonderful interviews we’ve done in the past, I present you with one amazing interview here with Tom McInerney – a friend, co-investor, former entrepreneur turned angel investor and “wizard of Oz&# behind the scenes at the uber hot startup Klout. 0:28:00) & (0:31:27).

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