Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Network with other entrepreneurs. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. Don’t just call, but personally visit these contacts. Be vigilant and ask questions.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 5, 2011

Agreements with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are like DC Comic’s evil villainess, Poison Ivy. You will no doubt craft agreements with companies of similar or even smaller size to your own. Ever negotiate with lawyers at a huge company? The allure of a company-changing deal with a BDC is strong. Kiss of Death Provisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2020

More importantly, I look for entrepreneurs and owners like you who are not afraid to hold themselves accountable for the success of the business. You may recognize these in your own company, and can overcome all of them with a proactive management focus and conviction: Everyone is proceeding with unreasonable expectations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2013

Everyone seems to like the aspect of being an entrepreneur that goes with “being your own boss” and “able to do things my way.” People with confidence problems and fear problems should avoid the entrepreneur role, since success without accountability is rare. Investors always seem to put such unreasonable restrictions of me.” “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2020

In my work with you as an entrepreneur or small business owner, I find that most understand the need try out new business models and product innovations, but trust their intuition rather than running a disciplined business experiment first. Brick-and-mortar companies don’t have enough transactions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Later investors all think you have given away too much of the company too soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Later investors all think you have given away too much of the company too soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Later investors all think you have given away too much of the company too soon.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 5, 2013

If your company has said "Yes" to any of the following requests, you have effectively failed the partnership idiot test. Exclusivity can kill a small company. Unfortunately, many big companies assume they can unfairly skew the market in their favor by precluding you from freely working with anyone you choose. Exclusivity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2013

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. Later investors all think you have given away too much of the company too soon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. non-disclosure entrepreneur investor CDA business'

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Working hard together at a big company just isn’t the same. Who came in the office at 2am when the servers crashed – even on the night of the big company party. My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. You’ve heard that a million times. Those that we survive with become family.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2013

The one word the best entrepreneurs never accept. I worked in both before leaving to work in a software company at 17. I’ve been pitched by hundreds of entrepreneurs who never actually asked me whether I would invest. It’s a skill you’re going to need as an entrepreneur. Stay with me. Very few people do.

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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. These groups are now largely run by volunteers at no cost to entrepreneurs. This can hurt the company, and jeopardize all investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2012

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. Who is right? Strategic partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I learned all of this myself on your side of the table raising money at my first company. Let’s say the company had raised $15 million. It is 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2010

Everyone seems to like the aspect of being an entrepreneur that goes with “being your own boss” and “able to do things my way.” People with confidence problems and fear problems should avoid the entrepreneur role, since success without accountability is rare. Investors always seem to put such unreasonable restrictions of me.” “I

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Network with other entrepreneurs. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made. Do a simple Google search like you would on any company or individual before signing a contract. Tags: entrepreneur startup investor reverse due diligence business. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

There is a telltale sign of an inexperienced startup entrepreneur. As a startup you shouldn’t focus on buying other companies until you’ve figured out your own business. years ago and told me, “I just got offered the chance to buy this company because the founder doesn’t want to continue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2011

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. Who is right? Strategic partner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. It’s higher risk, but higher return, to pick the big winners early, before angels have set unreasonable valuations and restrictive terms. Great companies are made, not born. Tags: entrepreneur startup investor super angels founder. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 26, 2015

Yet, according to the Professor, the millions of modern-day immigrants to America are all exhibiting unreasonable, foolish actions when they cross the border in hopes of improving their social status. immigrants or their children founded more than 40 percent of America’s Fortune 500 companies, and. The group found that, ".

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2010

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. You won’t last long as an entrepreneur in this category, since a startup is all about taking risks. Who is right? Strategic partner. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Departing from Edwards AFB, we flew over the Mojave Air and Spaceport, home of the world’s largest private manufacturer of spacecraft, The Spaceship Company (TSC). In October of 2011, the company announced a $4.5 Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

In the case of SmartyPants Vitamins (www.wearesmartypants.com), it's at the core of the company. There was a real opportunity for me to arbitrage the last decade and a half of my experience in the Internet, and apply that to a products company, and to get some real competitive advantage.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Emmy Award winner Seth Epstein and current Founder and CEO of SocialStay , described seven practical, hands-on techniques entrepreneurs can use to enhance their overall awesomeness. Seth urges emerging entrepreneurs to, "Be on the playing field, not in your head.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I hear too often from business owners and entrepreneurs that they are bombarded by so many requests and problems, that they have trouble sorting out the daily crises from opportunities with a major payback for the business. Every business owner and entrepreneur has to be the role model for trust, a good moral compass, and ethics.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As a starting point there comes a time where investors have piled millions of dollars into a company and while they don’t want to control it, they also want a degree of independence in decision-making that comes when you have somebody who wasn’t a founder that is on the board of directors. you can build that with your personal peer network.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 5, 2015

In his premier film appearance in the blaxploitation send-up “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka,” Chris Rock inadvertently addresses a key pricing challenge faced by most entrepreneurs. The same phenomenon occurred at ProCore , when the company shifted the market focus of its SaaS solution from small contractors to large commercial builders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2010

By Ernst Gemassmer Hiring the right people into the right positions of a new company is critical to getting funded, and the right people are as critical to success as the funding. Yet the hiring process in most small companies is usually haphazard, and low priority compared to all the other work that needs to get done.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 22, 2015

The fear was that companies, or consumers, that didn’t pay extra could face consequences. The FCC’s new rules prevent companies from engaging in these practices, so Internet users outside the US will not have to worry about paying extra for access. Companies will need to retain a team of lawyers just to make sure they’re in compliance.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 25, 2012

Serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein recently gave a keynote address as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series. During his inspirational talk, Seth shared six hands-on exercises that entrepreneurs can use to harness their fears. This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

In the world of Big Dumb Companies (&# BDC&# ), there is little likelihood you will establish a professional relationship with someone outside of your company that goes beyond a casual friendship. At large companies, such behavior is often discouraged and in many organizations, it is even considered unprofessional.

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