Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2017

Most of the entrepreneurs I have met are smart, but many are not always wise. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring. Of course, experience is the ultimate teacher of the differences between smart and wise. Of course, experience is the ultimate teacher of the differences between smart and wise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2023

Based on their long careers assisting in leadership development with large companies as well as small, they detail eight keys to enhancing your leadership impact at work, home, and anywhere else that needs you. Be realistic about your real self, including weaknesses as well as strengths, failures as well as successes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2013

Most of the entrepreneurs I have met are smart, but many are not always wise. Wise leaders are authentic, timeless, and enduring. Of course, experience is the ultimate teacher of the differences between smart and wise. Of course, experience is the ultimate teacher of the differences between smart and wise.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 29, 2020

Despite the good news, investors would be wise to not count their chickens before they hatch (or are formed into chicken-like approximations from pea protein and a mix of other ingredients). On Monday, Denny’s became the latest chain to offer a Beyond Meat burger at all of its locations.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A wise board and management would take their own hint and strengthen that core, whether it is your development team, your geographic dominance or other trait. This exercise is time well spent and should pay back in multiple ways in your future if not immediately.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 20, 2013

GoPago''s Android-based systems had been aimed at the small to medium sized business market, and compares very well price-wise with legacy POS systems, according to Tekippe. READ MORE>>. ecommerce mobile payment acquisition merger gopago doublebeam'

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing. Second, almost no professional investor will consider putting that much into a startup until there is proof of market demand, product viability or some other mitigation of failure.

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 21, 2023

This might include business-side materials like your product roadmap, business plans, and competitor analysis, as well as technical materials like requirements documentation, screen comps, and project/process systems like Jira and Confluence. We also begin to assess how well the architecture fits with your business needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Unreasonably high early valuations hurt the entrepreneurs, as well as professional investors, later when a second round becomes a down round or can’t be negotiated. This means less capability to ensure that invested funds are spent wisely or as planned. Investors cannot verify accountability or governance. Risk is increased.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Unreasonably high early valuations hurt the entrepreneurs, as well as professional investors, later when a second round becomes a down round or can’t be negotiated. This means less capability to ensure that invested funds are spent wisely or as planned. Investors cannot verify accountability or governance. Risk is increased.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2022

It’s important to ask and listen to others for advice and guidance, but measure these inputs against your own instincts as well. Manage growth wisely. Blindly following someone else’s strategy doesn’t help as an excuse for failure, and doesn’t help you learn along the way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In my role as mentor and advisor to many founders, I consistently fail in convincing them of the power in wise delegation. I saw this challenge highlighted well in a new book, “ Leadership Skills that Inspire Incredible Results ,” by Fred Halstead. This dialog with clarify your own understanding of the requirements, as well as theirs.

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Berkonomics

MAY 13, 2021

But all agree that a good board will express its stewardship well by preventing the company from running out of money. And it is wise to have a private discussion with that person because sometimes the reason for refusal to make such introductions is because of a lack of confidence or passion relating to the company or its founder.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Bloom is also a founder of the Wise Sons Delicatessen in San Francisco. “We first invested in Avametric at Initialized in 2013 and he had experience prior to that as well. From a venture perspective I think of these all around real defensibility of brand building,” said Dennis.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2021

Startups require focus, so you need to say ‘no’ to some things, in order to do the important things well. Choose your words wisely to avoid confrontation and a defensive or emotional reaction, but make sure the answer is clear and understood. It’s impossible to do everything. Be logical, calm, and concise.

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Eric Greenspan

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I wish her well. We both love Jacob, live less than a mile from one another and share his time wisely. My first wife, we were young, it ended. It was hardly enigmatic. So, I married again, the mother of my oldest boy Jacob. That ended too, not as smoothly as the first, but we all got through it.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 2, 2014

He occasionally gave me advice that turned out to be more than wise, looking back at subsequent experience and events. It’s just one – the most prevalent – of the many things that can happen to well-meaning partners after time changes plans, and after the business passes through phases of growth or contraction.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 21, 2012

There are three types of advice,” the wise White House Senior Counsel to the President told the young White House attorney. It would work equally well in our lives and within the walls of the White House or Congress. So I occasionally read suspense novels to break up the relative monotony of constant business books.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2019

We invest in life sciences, medical devices, but we're also a generalist investing in SaaS technologies and real estate, as well. We feel like we add a lot of value on the operational side, both from the technical standpoint, both science wise, and also operational experience from all of our principals.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 23, 2015

There are vast opportunities internationally that require careful planning to execute well. As you begin your travels into new territories away from home, it is always wise to have a host to greet you from arrival through departure in each country that is new to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

As I’m fond of saying “ The Scarecest Resource at a Startup is Management Bandwidth ” so choose wisely. So what you choose to do, do well and go deep. Or more granular … the entire model of a startup is prioritizing resource constraints. Great at nothing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2012

It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Do not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Third (if you’re keeping score), it is not wise to dilute the founder’s ownership greatly in the first round of financing. Second, almost no professional investor will consider putting that much into a startup until there is proof of market demand, product viability or some other mitigation of failure.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowdsourcing and so forth. This investor decided to use the fact that they got into a company that appears to be doing well to their benefit to almost fraudulently persuade limited partner investors to give them money. Protect your financial information wisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

There is plenty of room for good, so select wisely and execute well. I certainly see no shortage of ideas and opportunities, but I recommend that every entrepreneur, and every consumer, take a hard look at the broader implications of each new technology. The quality of all our lives depend on it. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2011

It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Do not fraternize with your employees, and choose your partners wisely. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2012

It’s hard enough to do X really well and succeed. Spend it wisely.” Trust me – each additional complexity you add before you’re ready decreases your probability of being truly excellent at the things you want to do extraordinarily well. You run the risk of being a mile wide and an inch deep. My advice?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

I got a call a few years ago from a well-known investor up North. He’s wise, thoughtful and has made money across so many different industries it’s humbling. Always question the motives of those sending you dealfow – regardless of how nice they are or well meaning. It’s not that I lack confidence.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

These investments have performed very, very well, but the average investors has never been able to reach into that asset class. In order to sell a share of Apple, Apple doesn't have to be acquired, you just have to have a buyer on the other wise. That doesn't work so well when you face regulatory scrutiny.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It’s a great topic, his post is well written and given that he’s going through it right now in his startup it’s worth reading his point of view on the topic. Here’s my take: Penny Wise, Pound Foolish. Penny wise, pound foolish. I love this saying and what it implies and I use it often. I Love Scrappy.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Well, after months of soul searching and talking to 100 people (one of my key rules before starting any business or product) — I figured it out! A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” They asked me what my company did and I said “Good question!

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Thus, spending time opining on an unvetted idea is not time well spent. Wise And Feld To The Rescue. Sean Wise and Brad Feld's Startup Opportunities, Know When To Quit Your Day Job is for students B and C.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 11, 2015

Our guest insight this week is from Frank Peters, well-known in the angel and in the bicycle worlds for his podcasts and passion. Perhaps like many businesses, mine started out painfully slow; wage-wise, I think it was three years before I earned $30,000. By Frank Peters. His personal story is full of lessons for us all. – Dave.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Well, once people get on boards it’s pretty tough ego-wise to convince them to step off. Another reason is that your C-round of capital may very well be $25–100 million and at those check sizes investors want to have an independent board at a minimum (many boards are 3–2 or even 4–1 investors to founders).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2019

It’s important to ask and listen to others for advice and guidance, but measure these inputs against your own instincts as well. Manage growth wisely. Blindly following someone else’s strategy doesn’t help as an excuse for failure, and doesn’t help you learn along the way.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Annie has previously written several well-received poker strategy books. Annie is well positioned to write a book on decision analysis, combining her decades as a professional poker player with her graduate psychology research at the University of Pennsylvania. Business (And Life) Is Poker, Not Chess.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2019

There is plenty of room for good, so select wisely and execute well. I certainly see no shortage of ideas and opportunities, but I recommend that every entrepreneur, and every consumer, take a hard look at the broader implications of each new technology. The quality of all our lives depend on it. Marty Zwilling.

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