Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2013

For most entrepreneurs, their current business is not where they intend to stay until they die. The challenge is how to know and exit gracefully when the right time has come, without trauma to either the company or themselves. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Keep good company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 14, 2009

“You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized qualifications, the only company you ever launched went bankrupt and you have just been sentenced to one year in jail.”. Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Steve Blank via Flickr by jdlasica I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. At the same time, more entrepreneurs are jumping into the fray, and less money is available from investors.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. The payout was also unique.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. Although the offer was gratifying, it was clear to the Founders that this windfall would ultimately fall far short of the value that could be created by productizing the technology and generating substantial user adoption. The payout was also unique.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 16, 2010

However, in many cases, acquiring companies behave in a less rational manner than Mr. Jackson. Citrix politely approached us, told us they had an interest in acquiring our company and then asked us, “How much?”. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. We were not rude nor indignant.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

When you raise money from investors you produce information that you are told they want and care about: A fund-raising deck that articulates your company strategy, plans, team, market, competitors and so forth. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. against a broad range of similar companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon''s initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. Very rare case.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2014

According to earlier studies from Forbes Insights , many entrepreneurs and small businesses not only feel the lessons learned during the past few years have helped them survive, but the recession also exposed flaws in their business strategies that they were able to fix. 2015 business optimism entrepreneur strategy' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2019

Yet, in my daily role as an advisor to entrepreneurs and small business owners, struggling to boost revenues, profits, and earnings, I still see too many managers falling back on command-and-control, a focus on weaknesses, and not enough time for people. Change is hard. But these days it’s required and inevitable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2010

If you don’t already read Chris’s blog you should – it’s very well written, often takes a strong POV and speaks from an entrepreneur’s perspective but with a huge knowledge of the technology investors as well. You will only build a sustainable company of you’re solving a real problem that people have.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. If you start an apparel company, there's no YCombinator, no Sequoia Capital for that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The challenge is how to know and exit gracefully when the right time has come, without trauma to either the company or themselves. Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch clearly fall into this category. Accept change as a natural part of your transition, just as you always have for your company. Keep good company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. That said, there are times where you need to cast a wider net. I want to judge whether they’re really committed to my company or not. Recruiters. Real Estate professionals. You name it. We need them all.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

event I did last fall. I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Where I use LinkedIn: * I definitely use LinkedIn for Specific Requests - Ex. Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

” And yet we entrepreneurs who will sign up for the journey accept that failure is a possibility and the true entrepreneurs know that they must stick with the ship even if it’s sinking. First time entrepreneurs can fall prey to hubris. But markets don’t generally love failure. Yet failure smells.

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