Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a recent book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

You can review all the specifics of this approach in a new book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. Don’t forget a viable financial model of costs, margins, customer acquisition, and break-even.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. ”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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