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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 18, 2014
We are in the age of outsourcing, by any of many popular names, including subcontracting, freelancing, and virtual assistants. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure. Let’s cut costs by outsourcing all from this point forward.” Be flexible.
Tech Zulu Event
MARCH 1, 2013
Work closely with a trusted financial partner and dig deep into your books to avoid these cashflow mistakes: Not using a GAAP accounting system. Unfortunately for those entrepreneurs who aren’t “number people,” a budget is never one and done. Perhaps the biggest mistake I see has to do with milestone funding. It’s that simple.
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Jason Nazar
JULY 1, 2016
Entrepreneurs often lament big companies, but most of us hope we’ll create just that. Add in public company demands, lawsuit targets, & millions of customers to continually satisfy, and you have to have great respect for those doing it well. Decisions that take entrepreneurs an hour, often take months at large companies.
InfoChachkie
MAY 16, 2011
“Learn from the mistakes of others. As an entrepreneur and startup investor, I have helped create companies which achieved two IPOs which collectively raised over $100 million, as well as two acquisitions which totaled $385 million. During those same 25-years, I also made innumerable mistakes. 7) Hire A Consultant.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 25, 2011
It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#. It is advice I give entrepreneurs often as I have written here on why most businesses should never raise VC. You’re a small fish. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?
InfoChachkie
APRIL 21, 2011
J = External Technical Company Voice. Below are a few mistakes I will not replicate when I conduct this process for a future portfolio company. The (Non)sense Of Entitlement describes the temperament required for successful entrepreneurs to leverage performance feedback. H = Technology Partners Integration.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). My family had the very first edition of the IBM XT computer with a 10 MB hard drive. no lost wages) or whose companies sponsored them.
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