Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Any startup coach or business advisor will tell you that, on your way to being a great chef, you don't start your journey by inventing the ultimate entre. Finally you create and document your recipe (business plan). In all cases, don’t skip the basic training.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

Create a community service project, raise a small venture fund to capitalize student companies – whatever you do, it should be bold and force you to call upon all of your startup talents. Thus, it pays to document your daily thoughts so you can later recall and combine them with subsequent hunches. Get A Coach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2012

During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Absolute control.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2015

The one thing I learned as a consultant (I worked at Accenture for 9 years in my 20’s) and working with bankers doing M&A transactions is that no matter how hard we worked there was always a lawyer who got handed the documents at 2am and had to turn them around by 8am in the morning. Chief of Staff for a major political figure?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Of course not every VC has the fund size or the fee size to build services at this scale yet many provide extremely well-regarded programs that are valuable. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. So I find that less “management” happens at these firms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail. Investors don’t want to fund your stumbles. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Absolute control.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

He could not be persuaded to commit the funds required for localization. His manager accepted his resignation and documented the case in the personnel files. Thus, we did not translate the product and sales remained at an insignificant level. Translation not only increases sales, but in many countries it is required by law.

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CEO Flow

MARCH 1, 2010

Highlights: We’ve closed significant funding for CitySourced/FreedomSpeaks. My pal and coach Aaron Ross aka @MotoCeo really helped me break some things down. For example, the tools I need and documents I have open for new sales calls is much different that what I need for existing clients. I wake up early, at my desk by 7am.

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Daradiction

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Highlights: We’ve closed significant funding for CitySourced/FreedomSpeaks. My pal and coach Aaron Ross aka @MotoCeo really helped me break some things down. For example, the tools I need and documents I have open for new sales calls is much different that what I need for existing clients. Today I had a cool breakthrough.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

We are money, advice, coaching, cheerleading, interventionist but not “the decider.” Crowd funding now exists. Document management? VCs have the safety of not being that person. That is what separates us. And what makes you crazy. And special. ” That’s you. Each situation you face is different and unique.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2010

And let’s be honest, other than money and coaching most VC’s add little value to your company strategy. Even it it’s 15 months away they need to know when you think you run out and when you think you’ll need to be fund raising. It should be inline in the email rather than a document attachment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Investors are human and subject to human tendencies, whether they are your rich uncle, an angel investor with personal funds or a venture capital investor with institutional money. Be wary if the term sheet is a document longer than your business plan. Academic coach investors. Investors for a fee.

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