InfoChachkie

JANUARY 20, 2015

Instead, expeditiously pick a reasonable moniker and then get back to work delivering value to your customers. In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other hindrances to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2023

There has long been a big debate about the best approach to starting a new business. Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach. Odds are you are going to fail before you succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. The resulting entity will gain complementary skills, economies of scale, new customer sets, and hopefully a larger growth opportunity.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. We''ve been wildly successful in helping junior college players find four year schools, and helping high school athletes get offers to colleges they''d never known about otherwise.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. I wrote about these experiences 7 years ago in a post I titled “ 73.6%

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

There has long been a big debate about the best approach to starting a new business. Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach. Odds are you are going to fail before you succeed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Southern California's technology community--despite all of the recent excitement around Silicon Beach--continues to be underserved in terms of capital, with a lack of venture capital funds (with money), and other private technology investors. Jeb Spencer: We consider ourselves a private equity firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Although I hear more and more about “global warming,” and the many ways we are destroying our environment, I still don’t see many global business winners in this space, comparable to Facebook and Amazon. The EPA estimates that 75 percent of the American waste stream is recyclable, but we only recycle about 30 percent of it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Yet according to other statistics, vanishing few of these ever generate a significant profit. We all hear about the big winners, such as the game Clash of Clans , which still pulls in over a million dollars a day, and the smartphone version of Skype , which is making money through credits as an extension of the website version.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2012

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. If your passions are elsewhere, don’t try running the family business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. If your passions are elsewhere, don’t try running the family business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2019

Now we have a thousand large companies into it, and if you name a big company, they're a customers of ours, from Starbucks to NASA. Explain what you mean about branding in the employment area? Talk more about that outplacement content? That's been very effective. They wanted to get help getting their resume out there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

But recently I was asked about success factors for services startups, and I quickly realized that there is very little published to help the thousands of startups that fall in this category. Customers don’t like people who don’t show their passion and love for the job. Customers don’t like to see you learning on the job or outsourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. Statistics show that at least 50% of new startups fail within five years, and many of the survivors eventually fail. If your passions are elsewhere, don’t try running the family business.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. The resulting entity will gain complementary skills, economies of scale, new customer sets, and hopefully a larger growth opportunity.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. an email) to about 35 people. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. crawl(ing) up.".

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , where are these women to fill these positions? Near the nation’s capital, Arlington, VA has a thriving startup community that supports female-led companies, startups in STEM, cyber security, defense, and everything in between aimed at improving the status quo.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2016

in funding, from Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Tribeca Angels. We spoke with Kyle Kamrooz , co-founder and COO of the company, about what the startup is doing. If you look at some of the statistics, getting a home loan is like pulling teeth, and it gets very poor customer ratings. Cloudvirga recently raised $7.5M

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Tell me about Bitvore - what''s your technology used for? We''re rolling it out to finance and Wall Street, monitoring thousands of sources of continuously changing information, such as news, social media, internal email systems, and analyzing specific, material conditions that our customers are looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Based on some good estimates of how many new ventures have been started in the last five years, the statistical odds of any individual startup making it to this level are less than one in a million. If your new venture is still in the idea or development stages, don’t even think about a high valuation. Experienced team of superstars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Venture capital investments are returning to startups. Venture capital firms raised $4.1 Startups are springing up all over to capitalize on these opportunities. Unless your volumes are in the millions or higher, the difference between manufacturing cost and customer price better be 50% or greater. Margin is everything.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

Milling about in The Herd may be safe, but the job security comes at the cost of controlling your destiny. Leading The Herd is certainly more fun than milling about its midst. One of the most repeated statistics trumpeted by the popular press is that “Four out of five businesses fail”. In your startup, you control your destiny.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

According to recent statistics from the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are about 7,000 business incubators and accelerators worldwide, with over 90 percent being non-profit and focused on incubator programs for community economic development. TechStar graduates have about an 80 percent funding rate.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. You can go to virtually any city in the world and meet a local who will tell you about their city. Capital to date? $20k It took month and years.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 3, 2013

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. an email) to about 35 people. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. crawl(ing) up.".

Newsletter 133

Newsletter Startup Entrepreneur Writing 133

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy. The resulting entity will gain complementary skills, economies of scale, new customer sets, and hopefully a larger growth opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics , more than 90 percent of satisfied entrepreneurs use bootstrapping, since other people’s money always comes with strings, most of them negative. It’s very common for founders who find venture capital funding, to soon find out that they are being replaced by a CEO who has “more experience.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. The professor plotted data and showed us statistically that most people buy stocks when they are booming (e.g. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. VC’s are not immune to this phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2016

There seems to be a big debate these days about the best approach to starting a new business. Historical and current statistics still show the chances of failure on any given startup are better than even. I’m definitely a proponent of this latter approach. Odds are you are going to fail before you succeed.

Entrepreneur 63

Entrepreneur Startup Satisfaction News 63

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Since we’re at CCE, what exactly gets Jim excited about tech and where Ford is moving? Customers know what works well and are frustrated by the lack of innovation in the industry. Like mobile devices, it’s not just about talking (or traveling) anymore. For the full photo set, visit our Facebook.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 13, 2010

However, be sure that any statistics you quote are primarily attributable to your personal efforts. startup, capitalized growth stage, large, established company, etc.). Pursue references from a variety of sources, including customers, suppliers, subordinates, etc. Avoid too much emphasis on your character traits. six months).

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The units, asking $500,000 to $2 million, hit the market in about a month. Developments Blog. See a sample reprint in PDF format. October 5, 2012.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

all you have is the web statistics provided by your web host or a free web statistics and analytics service you wont be able to get the information you need to block the bot. Im just saying this so that youdont get your hopes too high about what you can actually achieve. You need to be able to check your sites raw web logs.

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