Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Others, like Guy Kawasaki , have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent enhancements or omissions that can kill your deal. Entrepreneurs in this category are usually dreamers. Investors are not looking for conservative entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. business entrepreneur growth marketing Olga Mizrahi startup'

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. Or worse yet, the entrepreneur is so arrogant that he hasn’t even used Google to figure out he has competition just down the street.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

Most entrepreneurs work long and hard to get a handshake agreement from an investor, and then tend to relax and wait for the check to clear. For entrepreneurs, due diligence may seem like a mysterious process, with secret formulas and tricky questions, to give investors leverage. Competitive positioning and barriers to entry.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Winning entrepreneurs have long since supplemented conventional print and video “push” marketing with digital online interactive “pull” marketing, and more recently added social-local-mobile ( SoLoMo ) to the mix. The broad-brush push-marketing is no longer competitive. Build word-of-mouth into your product or service.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2010

This would include removal of defaming items that have been published maliciously about innocent victims and companies, and just plain errors in data which may harm your company or your personal profile. These items can kill your business career, as you may remember from the example in Google Results are the Measure of an Entrepreneur.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2009

A startup-oriented lawyer may not be able to convince a jury of a guilty man’s innocence, but they can guide your adVenture through the menacing legal shoals it will no doubt face. It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. Some companies use lawsuits as an arrow in their competitive quiver. Go Nuclear.

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