Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 20, 2021
Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2018
Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. I often send the introduction email and then a second email to the reference to say, “This reference is really important to me.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 10, 2010
It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? Getting Your Work Schedule on Your Terms – Many people in America sit at their desk much of the day and have email open.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2019
Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 18, 2019
Elon Musk via Flickr by TED Conference To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. In her classic book on this subject, “ The Essentials of Fabulous ,” Ellen Lubin-Sherman, who has been tracking fabulous people most of her life as a writer and journalist, tried to net it out.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 25, 2016
Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 28, 2013
Attend an investment conference. If you can meet the SEC “accredited investor” criteria ($1M net worth or $200K annual income), this is a great way to be seen by potential investors as peers before you need money. Don’t do cold calls or email blasts of your resume and business plan to potential investors.
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