Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2011

I spoke at Stanford last year about starting a tech company. So embedded is this conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley that it feels like heresy to even question it. Here is a quick summary of my POV: When you start a company a 50/50 partnership seems obvious. like how much burn rate), whether to sell the company, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market economy (marketquake)? They consistently take bold steps to stay ahead of the curve, often contrary to conventional wisdom. Mine the organization for expertise (exploration).

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

Startups consistently identify more ideas and opportunities than they have the time or resources to pursue, such as potential partnerships, new products, entering emerging markets, etc. Idea Cronyism. The ability to objectively critique ones creative output is vital to an entrepreneur. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. Technology alone does not make a great company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Steve Blank via Flickr by jdlasica I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. At the same time, more entrepreneurs are jumping into the fray, and less money is available from investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

Image by Origa via Wikipedia I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Academia’s arbitrary, bureaucratic structure, combined with its predominant focus on theoretical issues, causes many entrepreneurs to depart college early. Even if an established leader in your industry does not see the wisdom in your ideas, do not waiver.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Entrepreneurs have been seeking clever shortcuts to spur their growth and circumvent their competitors since the dawn of commerce. By looking backward, modern entrepreneurs can co-opt the hacks from a pre-digital age that remain relevant today. Target The Untargeted, Offer Value And Ignore Conventional Wisdom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2014

How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market economy (marketquake)? They consistently take bold steps to stay ahead of the curve, often contrary to conventional wisdom. business creativity entrepreneur G.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2012

For true entrepreneurs, risk is viewed as a positive, with its implied challenge to overcome the unknown and hitting the big return. One way to learn is to understand better how successful entrepreneurs approach risk, and look at actual strategies they use for success. Buck the conventional wisdom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2017

How is it that only a few business leaders and entrepreneurs seem to drive exceptional results and disruptive innovation in this rapidly changing market economy (marketquake)? They consistently take bold steps to stay ahead of the curve, often contrary to conventional wisdom. Mine the organization for expertise (exploration).

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

These entrepreneurs do not risk everything, work outrageous hours and put themselves under extreme pressure because they want to. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Entrepreneurs want to matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are today’s main source of innovation. We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. These included the PC, mobile phone, the internet, and MRI imaging.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 9, 2012

As Seth Epstein makes clear in this talk , entrepreneurs constantly experience breakdowns, followed by breakthroughs. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money." A common theme among successful entrepreneurs is that making money is not a primary motivator. However, Walt did not fold. Just Start. "The

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2011

About a month ago I was meeting with a seasoned entrepreneur. He founded the company, raised a bunch of money, built the product and established a good reputation and market position. But since he was still the CEO people still always looked for him to set the direction of the company. What a wonderful company they built.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Other installments include: Words of startup wisdom from Jeff Bezos. He is a great example of…building an enchanting company.”. I gathered ten such examples which are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs. I regularly bring successful entrepreneurs into my UC Santa Barbara classroom. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Venture Ideas are like hobbies. One of its Co-Founders, Alison Perry, stumbled on the opportunity that eventually spawned the company after spending Christmas with her grandmother, who had recently been housebound by Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). Tags: Entrepreneur Strategic Planning The Fringe. Hobby Pony.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. Entrepreneurs always walk away with new relationships, knowledge, deal discussions and enthusiasm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

For true entrepreneurs, risk is viewed as a positive, with its implied challenge to overcome the unknown and hitting the big return. One way to learn is to understand better how successful entrepreneurs approach risk, and look at actual strategies they use for success. Buck the conventional wisdom.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. I hate Silicon Whatever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Only then is it time to focus on the get-big-fast strategy, and the transformation of three key areas from startup to a managed growth company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2010

If I had link bait with stupid ideas then entrepreneurs wouldn’t want to work with me. I’d rather have smaller readership and better ideas. But the reality is that most “conventional wisdom&# is a bit like Hollywood films. This isn’t my day job, it’s my hobby. Life is complex.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2017

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. Technology alone does not make a great company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

In other words, it isn’t that VCs suddenly got smart, it’s that the costs of starting a company went down dramatically. Now seed funding is conventional wisdom. With a massive increase in companies created and a huge number of sources one trend that we witnessed from 2012–2015 was the rise of the undisciplined round.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 26, 2011

I have often said that what separates real entrepreneurs from pundits and bystanders is a bias towards getting things done versus over analyzing things. It’s the hardest thing to teach people who come out of big companies, out of conservative jobs. The startup entrepreneur knows that they’re going to be wrong often. Hire Slowly?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. Technology alone does not make a great company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2011

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. Technology alone does not make a great company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For true entrepreneurs, risk is viewed as a positive, with its implied challenge to overcome the unknown and hitting the big return. One way to learn is to understand better how successful entrepreneurs approach risk, and look at actual strategies they use for success. Buck the conventional wisdom.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2010

I tell entrepreneurs that Google was an “exception” to all the investment and startup rules, but I’ve always wondered what it takes to be an exception. Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. Technology alone does not make a great company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Obviously when a meme like “fail fast&# forms and conventional wisdom builds in support of it you’re likely to get attacked for saying, “the emperor has no clothes.&# But I just said it. Because I have met so many young entrepreneurs who tell me, “we don’t need business plans anymore, there a waste!

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socalTECH

MARCH 3, 2015

What''s the idea behind Momstamp? Staci Miller: The idea we like to compare it to, is Angie''s List and Yelp meets Facebook. Why did you start the company? I also had a background from McKinsey and Company in consulting. It''s meant to help moms get stuff done quickly, by leveraging their network. They got the concept.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Why buy now? Tell a friend!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. Founders on the other hand recognize that over time they are likely not to have complete control of the board of directors of the company they founded.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup.

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