Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Thus investing in startups should always be approached as a low odds game.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2011

Using your data, here are the basic elements of the projection process, which are measurable by milestones, and can be tracked to show when a re-forecast is required: Start with sizing per-unit profitability. Here is where you need a “bottoms-up” estimate from the people in your organization who have to deliver. Margin is everything.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 29, 2011

The data consistently confirms that: (i) venture capitalists are typically not adventuresome, and (ii) most startups lack the three intoxicating factors which cause venture capitalists to pull out their checkbooks. This concentration is partly due to natural causes – successful startups spawn other successful startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

In the old days, every entrepreneur dreamed of someday taking their startup public, and making it a multi-national powerhouse. According to an Ernst & Young report , the number of startups that have gone public in the US over the past decade is down about 75% from the previous decade, to about 10% of startup exits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million. Thus I offer some practical strategies if you are looking for direction or the best place to start: Look for opportunities to increase recycling and reuse.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. For aspiring entrepreneurs, or if your last startup failed, it’s all about standing out above the crowd of others like you, and demonstrating your readiness.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. For aspiring entrepreneurs, or if your last startup failed, it’s all about standing out above the crowd of others like you. Executive summary glossy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2013

Using your data, here are the basic elements of the projection process, which are measurable by milestones, and can be tracked to show when a re-forecast is required: Start with sizing per-unit profitability. Here is where you need a “bottoms-up” estimate from the people in your organization who have to deliver. Margin is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2010

Using your data, here are the basic elements of the projection process, which are measurable for milestones, and can be tracked to show when a reforecast is required: Start with sizing per-unit profitability. Here is where you need a “bottoms-up” estimate from the people in your organization who have to deliver. Margin is everything.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 9, 2012

Using your data, here are the basic elements of the projection process, which are measurable by milestones, and can be tracked to show when a re-forecast is required: Start with sizing per-unit profitability. Here is where you need a “bottoms-up” estimate from the people in your organization who have to deliver. Margin is everything.

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socalTECH

JULY 10, 2017

There's been a revolution in the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the last few years, by both startups and large companies, to help in a large number of areas. With each company that we've started, we've concentrated on a particular market. Tim Grace: We all get our started at HNC Software in San Diego.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, Robin's latest startup is Internships.com (www.internships.com), an online site focused on aggregating internship opportunities and providing resources to potential interns.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

com, and Vivendi Universal Net USA, where he was also CEO. Richards also has been an active angel investor in local startups. Statistically, you are 10x more likely to get hired through a referral by an employee than a non-referral. What do you need to be make a startup successful? What is CareerArc?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

And his stated goal at his young age is to get an education so his kids can grow up in a better neighborhood. All of the kids end up in a lottery system to try and get into public charter schools where their odds were between 5-10% of being accepted based solely on numbers. I grew up in public schools and so did my wife.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

I advise all of my companies to use an impressed payroll service, one that takes the taxes from your bank account along with the net payrolls each period. There are statistics that show clearly that the likelihood of payment drops quickly as receivables age beyond terms. I have a story about this for later in this insight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. of startup businesses as far back as 2005. So what are some ideal roles for a Boomer relative to your startup?

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

As noted in Net Profit Score , salespeople have used references as a means of establishing credibility with strangers for hundreds of years. Thus, cite quantified results, such as percentage growth in revenue, number of new accounts closed, Net Promoter Scores achieved, etc. Start by writing a draft of your reference.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Even investors and experienced founders are caught in the same net as recently educated graduates looking to build companies. An E visa is meant for foreign investors looking to start a business in the U.S. Take the U.S. category E visa for investors as a prime example of the recent troubles. or purely invest in established U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to help you turn visitors into raving fans.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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