Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

What every entrepreneur needs more than anything else, after they have built an innovative new product or service, is visibility, credibility, and trust by customers, potential employees, and future business partners. Yet, most good business people I know agree, but don’t know where to start.

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APRIL 27, 2014

Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal. And there’s conferences. Web Summit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2016

In my experience, there is no magic gene involved, just simple good habits executed consistently and convincingly until everyone around you wants to follow your example. This leading by example is easy to say, but not so easy to put into action. Challenged by his contemporaries, Edison soberly responded: “I have not failed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2012

Everyone recognizes a great entrepreneur when they work with one, but most entrepreneurs don’t know what to look for in themselves that will drive that perception by others. This leading by example is easy to say, but not so easy to put into action. This leading by example is easy to say, but not so easy to put into action.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2010

I hear many executives and professionals in large corporations talking about their dream of jumping ship, and becoming an entrepreneur. Common examples include, I need to work on my resume, broaden my experience, enhance my skills, save my income, and maintain a stable family life until my children are gone. There is a difference.

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MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. In the original version of his post, Andy writes. Take for example Accel. The best VCs don’t try to help entrepreneurs. And Coach Campbell.

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APRIL 20, 2011

One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. A few deals have been funded through this program.

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JUNE 2, 2011

Thiel and friends will also agree to mentor these young entrepreneurs. We have a severe shortage of talented engineers in this country, for example, and science doesn’t seem to garner as much attention & focus in the US as it does in some other countries. Let me give you an example. Here is their inaugural class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Common examples include; need to work on my resume, broaden my experience, enhance my skills, save my income, and maintain a stable family life until my children are gone. Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. There is a difference.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 4, 2011

Common examples include; need to work on my resume, broaden my experience, enhance my skills, save my income, and maintain a stable family life until my children are gone. Executives in an enterprise usually don’t write their own memos, contracts, and certainly don’t schedule their own meetings. There is a difference.

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OCTOBER 25, 2009

I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. I like to say to first-time entrepreneurs, picking a VC is more permanent than marriage. Trust your instincts – they will serve you well as an entrepreneur. And many of these people are money managers rather than people like Gus who inspire entrepreneurs.

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JULY 1, 2010

An obvious example would be in sales. By the time of my second company MySQL was a much more robust solution and worked well when you had to read a lot of information but was less performant on “write&# activities. As a content management system we had lots of write activities and went with Postgres. A quick example.

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APRIL 6, 2014

By the way, I also strongly advise that entrepreneurs reference VCs. In this instance my personal style is to have entrepreneurs in whom I’m considering investing to call my good references and those where we have gone through some tough times so in that sense I end up in the 0.05% but I tell entrepreneurs I’m doing this and why.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

Strictly for example sake I’ll take our mission at Upfront Ventures. We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up. You are writing about the essentials of business. The Startup Metrics post is a good example of what I call “holocognics.” I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong.

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JUNE 13, 2011

An example, was my iPod, which I had but no longer was using because I had a new iPhone, basketball sneakers I had but never really fit me. Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class.

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

For extroverted people I recommend that entrepreneurs have an “executive summary&# slide up front that cuts to the chase. Let me use me as an example so you can get inside the head of somebody in this sphere of the chart. Most entrepreneurs are. It’s in their personality type. Drain in quickly. EXPRESSIVES.

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JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. Let me start with an example. I started with a personal example because I’d like you to have that mindset as we discuss the business people in your lives. As an entrepreneur I have one company to sell.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

If you want it to be private, for example if you're a consultant or teacher, you can share it with a pre-identified audience for that knowledge by publishing it privately and inviting others to log into Knowledge Genie to share that knowledge. The second example, is you can publish it in public. But, it didn't seem scalable.

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