Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Don’t hesitate to call in an experienced advisor or mentor to help. Of course, problem-solving is required for scaling and continued business growth. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/23/2015. Very few startup problems are unique. An experienced advisor, board member or investor has seen them all.

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OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. Salty Girl Seafood - Another focus of the TMP is the recruitment and mentoring of women entrepreneurs. UC Santa Barbara has avoided this mistake by placing its Program within the Engineering department. Am I biased?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Don’t let day-to-day demands take the reins and drag you off course. It’s important to learn from peers, advisors and mentors that the required mindset must be combined with specific actions, including the ones outlined above, before value can be harvested. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 9/30/2015.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

As an advisor and mentor to startups, I try to make sure entrepreneurs understand both the pros and cons of an IPO as an exit strategy. Of course, there are cases where a new technology or medical startup needs that huge financial infusion to build the infrastructure needed for real growth, so the rewards are worth the risks and costs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2015

Based on my own experience mentoring real entrepreneurs and likely candidates, there are at least eight categories of non-starters. Of course, too much early success can kill a business, but real entrepreneurs are certain that they can grow and learn from success, just as they do from failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 2/13/2015. Donation good-cause model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Here are some of the key new rules I have learned by starting my own company, investing as an angel in other startups and mentoring many more new entrepreneurs over the last few years: Do incorporate a company, but keep it simple. Of course, not all new startup ideas can be developed this way, so pick an idea that fits.

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MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” What you may not know is that Fred has been a behind-the-scenes mentor to many of the newer VCs in the industry including myself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

These days, with the many Internet articles and new courses available, most new professionals readily cross the gap from lack of business knowledge to knowing, but many never make it over the knowing versus doing gap. Marty Zwilling First published on IvyExec.com on 9/25/2015.

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JULY 19, 2015

Mark Suster (@msuster) July 19, 2015. Of course that’s true. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. But needed to be seen. Entrepreneurs could learn about loneliness of success: nobody talks about. And the immediate reaction was obvious – that failure can be pretty lonely, too. Startups are All Naked in the Mirror.

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. There are many great companies that have been associated with Launchpad over the years and of course I’m proud of everybody we’ve had relationships with. What have I learned?

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JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. In the Early Days.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. Jason charted his own course though. Some background. I was building a document management company and he was building a document signature company. But Jason took Quora usage to 11.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

Of course, understanding your type and tailoring your plan is still no guarantee of success. So before you initiate your next startup, I recommend that you spend some time looking inward, or working with a mentor who will tell you where your strengths lie. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/10/2015.

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