Customer Entrepreneur Layoffs Writing 
socalTECH
JUNE 21, 2019
What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. What do you look for in entrepreneurs? I think the vision and the selling, for investors, for employees, and for customers, is really a core skill.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 26, 2013
Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 1, 2013
I will outline here ten key principles and disciplines that every entrepreneur must understand and practice to minimize surprises and failures in this area: Failure to document cash flow projections is a disaster. If you try to vary the number of employees to match, that costs even more cash for hiring, firing, and layoffs.
InfoChachkie
APRIL 9, 2012
These entrepreneurs do not risk everything, work outrageous hours and put themselves under extreme pressure because they want to. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Entrepreneurs want to matter.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 17, 2016
In the new business world, many entrepreneurs are so excited with large initial orders that they don’t anticipate the cash flow challenges that can quickly kill their startup. Of course, you can’t predict everything, but writing down what you know will identify existing problems sooner, and allow other team members to help.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty. Writing specialists. Tomorrow, a similar change is likely to happen to sales personnel, customer service, even manufacturing and construction jobs.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 21, 2011
You don’t need to invent an innovative product to be a real entrepreneur. Self-employed services specialists are just as important, and are a growing part of this new “ age of the entrepreneur ” that I discussed last week. Many of these new entrepreneurs were regular employees a few years ago, focused on a skill specialty.
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