Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 16, 2023

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Along with bringing in a hall of fame cast of serial entrepreneur speakers, Professor Greathouse assigned his students weekly projects where his students would create their own venture and produce an executive summary. Be sure to sign up as a Beta Tester of their innovative home automation solution here. . Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2019

Here is a summary of the barriers we both still see all too often in the business world, with some thoughts on how to overcome them: Many fear human limits in number of relationships. That’s more than enough to put you ahead of your competition. It’s true, we all have limits on the number of relationships we can manage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2020

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Here are some observations I have from this exposure: If a company moves from strength-to-strength with predictable outcomes, easy financings, low staff turn-over, limited competitive threats then the composition of the board probably doesn’t matter as much. Summary: Making Your Board More Effective Chose the right members.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support. This includes presentations, ROI calculators, competitive analyses and so forth. In Summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2012

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket (email or real plastic) awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. Send the plan without a summary. You lose in either case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2013

Notice that I didn’t say anywhere that a good business plan has to be at least 20 pages, or have ten sections, or must start with an executive summary. I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Every serious investor, on the other hand, has a stack of these in their in-basket (email or real plastic) awaiting review, and is looking for the flaw or less-capable entrepreneur in each that predicts failure, allowing them to discard it like another piece of junk mail. Send the plan without a summary. You lose in either case.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

No summary of what we did, no easy way for me to recommend my trainer to my friends, and no way for me to easily book the next appointment. After the session, Andy posts a summary to Jenna’s profile with the details of their workout and a few words of advice. Any competition in LA? Why did you venture into fitness?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2010

Even if you know your product/service suite down cold, understand the strengths/weaknesses of the competition, and have built pro forma financials that are sane. Make the repayment terms as clear as possible at either the beginning or end of the Executive Summary. They will likely only read your plan’s Executive Summary – at first.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

So don’t expect an unprompted email or phone call next week. I guess they assume that since I didn’t email or call I must not be interested. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch. Start with a very short thank you email the day after your pitch. Maybe it shouldn’t be?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2012

Notice that I didn’t say anywhere that a good business plan has to be at least 20 pages, or have ten sections, or must start with an executive summary. I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. As a VC I of course want you to come see only me because that means I have no competition and have time to properly get to know you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. It’s sharing features built into your web site content, like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. Mashable claims there are 150,000 new web sites created per day. Do them all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Notice that I didn’t say anywhere that a good business plan has to be at least 20 pages, or have ten sections, or must start with an executive summary. I’ll even send you a free sample of my own business plan via email, if you drop me a note.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Or read the quick, informative summary below the image! Here’s a summary of our interview. o On 1/11/05 his daughter was born at 8AM, at 6 PM email showing first million dollar rev day for the company and 8 PM term sheet from Experian to buy the company – all on the same day! He told them it was now or never.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 31, 2023

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. But wait for the mic drop… [Email readers, continue here…] Here’s where some intelligent market research might have saved the company and my investment. In this case, the competition was not from a company but from a new technology. The post Ouch!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2018

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2014

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he recommends today: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing. Scott, just published a new book that I like,” The New Rules of Lead Generation ,” highlighting the changes wrought by the internet and social media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

But the low cost also means that your competition will also be there in force. In the latest book by business guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of some great strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2023

Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter. In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. You can’t afford that competitive disadvantage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2016

Here is my summary of the seven most successful lead-generation vehicles he and I still recommend today, despite the popularity of viral marketing: Search-engine marketing. Email marketing. His professional background includes having held marketing-executive roles at big companies as well as startups.

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Berkonomics

JULY 6, 2017

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. In this case, the competition was not from a company but a new technology. When I listen to a pitch from an enthusiastic entrepreneur or read the summary of a business plan, one of the first questions I ask is about the strength of the competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2020

Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter. In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. You can’t afford that competitive disadvantage.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

They were a little too fierce in their competitive practices against Lyft to sign up drivers. As somebody who has to rub shoulders with big tech companies often I can tell you that there is much blood spilled in the competitive trenches of Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Google and so on. Increasingly startups want access to our emails.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Often I see executive summaries from entrepreneurs who have never managed any form of business, or even managed employees in their past life, and who don’t know the first thing about business formation and managing for growth. I used to tell them to find a partner with knowledge in business creation and management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter. In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. You can’t afford that competitive disadvantage.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Know your market and competition, or don’t spend a dime on anything else. I have stated previously that I love absolutes – statements with no wiggle room for gray-area responses. Fast forward several years to 1996… [Email readers continue here.] There is no competition.” Positioning.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. In the era of social networks, LinkedIn, Facebook messaging, Quora and email addresses that are easily guessable, it’s easy to think that maybe you should just approach a VC directly. Fund raising is bloody hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2016

Being very visible in the startup community, I still get an amazing number of badly written emails, rambling executive summaries, and business plans with one paragraph per chapter. In the competitive realm of business, you only get one chance to make a great first impression. You can’t afford that competitive disadvantage.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

. – Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. StrongMail was originally supposed to be the email infrastructure for the DHARMA project.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

If you want to watch my interview from 7 years ago it’s here or you can read the summary notes I wrote up ) Derek built Startup Grind from 2011 with 20 people in one room for a conference into a global phenomenon with 600 chapters all over the world and more than 2 million members. And it would be?—?but

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. It worked like a charm.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

It’s the exact same phenomenon in sales when you’re in a competitive RFP and 5 firms are pitching. Your back-channels should be subtle and should be truthful but it helps you to avoid having to send 5 reminder emails to a VC yourself. By the end the buyer forgets why they loved your presentation. So GET BACK IN FRONT OF THEM!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition. If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email. Summary: Journalists are people. Make yourself available. It is an important part of your job. Be respectful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 5, 2010

The conversations bleed into the sales messages the next time, they wend their way into software designs and form the plan of attach against competition. And that rep doesn’t just send an email to his boss – he has coffee with the head of customer service. He downs cold ones with the head of biz dev.

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