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JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. It will affect your ability to get the right jobs and promotions as well as your ability to attract talent and capital.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2014
There are many times when being overly capitalized before you’re ready is a negative. Plus, most early-stage M&A fails so this isn’t likely a good use of capital for a young company). Availability of Capital. In these kinds of businesses I’m on the record as advising “ Ring the Freakin Cash Register.”
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JUNE 27, 2011
Most people totally advise against stealth. Market to Your Target Audience – I’ve seen a lot of startups who like to write blog posts on life as an entrepreneur. You always have too much technical debt, too many problems, staff members quitting, not enough capital, customer complaints, etc. You don’t.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2015
” It was meant both as a call to those writing angel checks into other people’s companies that they ought to think about putting that capital toward themselves either by becoming a startup founder or (and this was my real point) by taking an under-market salary in a company where they can learn the right skills to do it in the future.
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JANUARY 13, 2011
I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. That notes only told part of the story.
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AUGUST 17, 2009
If you live somewhere where this is the case you’re better off discussing with your employer that you may from time-to-time work on private projects outside of work hours and you want their clearance in writing that this is OK. If not, at least find someone really technical that you trust to help act as an adviser to you.
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
► August (3) Venture Capital - What's the rush? StrongMail Systems (Digital Messsaging Infrastructure Software) Status: VC-backed (Sequoia Capital, Globespan and Evercore) Lesson: Trust your gut. . Venture Capital Funding 7. I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit.
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