Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

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. Even including repeat entrepreneurs, statistics have long shown that the overall failure rate for startups within the first five years is greater than 50 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. As an accredited angel investor, I claim to be one of those professionals, and I’ve talked to many more. million held by the Coolest Cooler.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. That leaves only about five percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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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. Even including repeat entrepreneurs, statistics continue to show that the overall failure rate for startups within the first five years is greater than 50 percent.

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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. Even including repeat entrepreneurs, statistics have long shown that the overall failure rate for startups within the first five years is greater than 50 percent.

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Entrepreneur Startup Writing Slides 108

socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

in funding, from Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Tribeca Angels. If you look at some of the statistics, getting a home loan is like pulling teeth, and it gets very poor customer ratings. He's my mentor, and I've known him since I was nineteen years old, when he was an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine. What is cloudvirga?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. How can you beat finding someone who has been there and done that, able to mentor Gen-Y, has lots of connections to people in your industry, and is often willing to work for equity alone? Angel Investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2017

As an angel investor in startups, I often find myself looking harder at the quality of the team and the leadership, than at the details of the product and business model. " Your challenge is to rise above these statistics by smart hiring, effective training, and building a culture of customer, society, and team focus.

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