Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. an investment in your company. As a result founders often meet the wrong investors, waste time on those who ask for more information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. They have also become great networking events for meeting other like-minded entrepreneurs. I believe the Maker Movement and hardware startups with limited resources are made for each other.

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Berkonomics

MAY 27, 2021

They protect the company by overseeing the expenditure of company money for expansion, acquisitions, purchases of large assets, hiring of senior management and more. The average board for a company taking outside investment money is five. How about legal requirements for board meetings?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

But there are a lot of things that become norms in the VC industry that always drove me crazy from entrepreneur’s side of the table. Translation for any first time entrepreneurs can mean one of: a. So he left and focused on starting companies. In an entrepreneur I need to see the anti VC character. They still do.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 19, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Many entrepreneurs struggle with their setbacks.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When hiring ATM Operators at a Big Dumb Company (BDC), assessing each candidate’s ability to execute predictable tasks is of paramount importance. In fact, a company filled with inventors would be a dysfunctional mess. As made clear in Optimistically Pessimistic , most entrepreneurs’ experiences are not linear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs have no idea how dramatically your own role has to evolve as you develop a solution, start a business, and expect it to scale into a successful self-managed company. At this stage, I typically find a solo entrepreneur who creates, manages projects, directs, and oversees every step in the process.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

If you have been following our recent insights, you’ll be up to speed knowing that professional investors negotiate tough terms, from provisions of control over asset acquisition, eventual sale of the company, future investments, forced co-sale when others attempt to sell their shares and more.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2016

As a service to San Diego startup companies, CONNECT is partnering with Stradling, a full-service business law firm with broad resources to support the specific needs of emerging growth companies. Attorney Amit Singh will be in the CONNECT office on July 15 for private, pro bono meetings with entrepreneurs.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 8, 2019

A typical board is composed of five persons in a company that has received outside funds from professional investors. Two members usually represent the founders or management, two are from the investors, and one is often elected by the four to represent the industry in which the company works.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2023

As a startup advisor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. It’s what separates the true entrepreneurs from the wannabes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2021

As a long-time advisor to new entrepreneurs here in the USA, I’ve long been impressed with the number that come here from other countries, and the positive traits that most of these seem to bring with them. That doesn’t mean that you should try to rollout your business globally with your limited initial resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time. Meeting new people is critical to business success yet you must be judicious with your time. That’s why focus is critical. Focus is almost always the right answer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. This is a very important to do when you first start a company. Champion is the person who drives through the approval to give the go ahead (and secures budget) to your product or company.

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Sales Startup Resource Custom 393

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. It’s what separates the true entrepreneurs from the wannabes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 28, 2023

Entrepreneurs seem to have blinders on when looking at competitors. If your customers would benefit by having products from both companies, you might negotiate the opportunity to include the other’s product as an add-on. No entrepreneur has all the insights they need, and none should be so arrogant as to assume they hold all the cards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2010

It was difficult to make the transition to a “top down&# thinker but as a senior executive – and as an entrepreneur – you’re far less effective without this skill in your arsenal. We did big, boring but necessary implementations for large companies. I started by doing billing systems. discuss.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

She has created a successful model to bridge entrepreneurs, investors and the federal government. She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans. She began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later cofounded a mobile gaming company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

As a starting point, I like the Wikipedia simple definition of innovation as “the application of better solutions to meet new requirements or market needs.” Barbee, based on his 45-year career and work as an innovation guru with several Fortune 100 companies and the Darden School of Business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2021

With the pace of change ever escalating, entrepreneurs today can’t afford to acquire talent through traditional hiring alone, and need to revise the perception that “talent” is only full-time office employees. In addition, more people in the workforce don’t want to be resident employees. More than 40% of U.S. It’s here to stay.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 4, 2014

Thompson''s jaded take on the travel industry, I wondered if there was a travel company that bucked his stereotypes and properly balanced making bold destinations accessible while respecting the unspoiled resources and culture that made the locales interesting in the first place.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2023

Most of the entrepreneurs and aggressive business owners I meet in my consulting practice are focused on finding new disruptive solutions and killing competitors as the key to success. For a company to grow and thrive, it needs to find and broadcast its purpose in all that it does. Use your confidence and competence to succeed.

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Capital Netflix Resource Custom 142

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2018

As a startup investor in this age of the entrepreneur, I see many more startups, but innovation is still hard to find. In my experience, finding real innovation in existing company environments is even tougher. An entrepreneur looking for a sure thing will never innovate. Set milestones and meet them. Ownership.

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Entrepreneur Coach Metrics Competition 64

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. High-performing startups today are the ones that use every resource at their disposal. Board members in constant conflict can kill your company more quickly than any market forces.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Usually that’s the point in the meeting where a VC realizes that this meeting isn’t going to go very well. If you don’t have a firm grasp of these concepts and how a VC thinks your meeting is dead. One entrepreneur refrain I sometimes hear is “We want to raise some extra money for M&A activities.” Founder: “Um.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 30, 2011

billion caused me to recall an awkward meeting I had in 2005 with a particularly clueless group of cellular executives. In the course of one meeting, I observed the following trifecta of stupidity. Rather than be embarrassed or ashamed, the executives with whom I was meeting found the lengthened prompt to be delightful.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

” It is one of the easiest pieces of advice to give as it is almost always valuable if entrepreneurs follow it as a guideline. While many companies chased features, functions, integrations, platforms, toys, conferences … these companies quietly sharpened the saw. Or DropBox. Made life easier. Methodically.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. Most true visionary entrepreneurs have unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Meet GIGXR , the new owner of all of the assets of Pearson Immersive Learning Group , a subsidiary of the education and media publishing giant, Pearson. The serial entrepreneur had been in discussions with Pearson for the better part of a year to acquire the company’s VR and AR assets.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. Fortunately, the Startup of the Year program aims to make it easier for founders to connect with resources. BlackTech Week (Miami, FL).

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Startup Technical Review Competition Software Review 140

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs, like online web sites and smart phone apps. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. It’s what separates the true entrepreneurs from the wannabes.

Tips 104

Tips Startup Technical Review Equity 104

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. You can provide the discipline and the resources for results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 3, 2021

As a starting point, I like the Wikipedia simple definition of innovation as “the application of better solutions to meet new requirements or market needs.” Barbee, based on his 45-year career and work as an innovation guru with several Fortune 100 companies and the Darden School of Business.

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Organization Ideas Technical Review Research 172

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Portfolio company support & analysis. Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. Smart founders use this extra resource to their advantage. Portfolio community building. Industry reviews. VC firm admin.

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