SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Vision Synching in a Lean Startup The Fallacy of Customer Development Entrepreneurs, Lower Investors’ Risk by Validating your Start-up Company’s Business Proposition Lessons Learned: What is customer development? Customer Validation 101. And that's the first response that Tristan suggests. billion dollar mistake.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 2, 2023
People with a victim mentality should never be entrepreneurs. According to a classic article by Karl Perera, called “ Victim Mentality - You Don't Have to Suffer! This victim mentality is not a good thing under any circumstances, but it’s particularly lethal when applied to an entrepreneur. Take a hard look in the mirror.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 9, 2021
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
As of today, I will have published an article here for entrepreneurs and startups every day for the last 1001 days, since I started Startup Professionals Musings near the close of 2008. Here are ten key messages that I would like to leave you with: I continue to gain respect for entrepreneurs. I’m sure you know what I mean.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2021
You can’t win as an entrepreneur working alone. I hope all this seems obvious to you, but I still get a good number of notes from “entrepreneurs” who have been busy inventing things all their life, but can’t find a partner to start their first business, and others trying to find an executive, an investor, or a lawyer.
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 12, 2017
A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. The post Which Of These 7 Fears Are Keeping You From Being An Entrepreneur? Marketing automation company HubSpot recently surveyed its users, asking them a variety of startup questions. Some […]. appeared first on John Greathouse.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 2, 2014
” This sentiment is probably familiar to many entrepreneurs and it must certainly resonates with anybody who suspects he or she has ADD. It was called “ Delivered from Distraction ” and it outlines many successful executives with ADD and in particular some famous entrepreneurs. Often doing many things at once.
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