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How To Make The Most Of Your DNA As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. Some might say that Elon Musk epitomizes this category. The Opportunist is the speculative part of the entrepreneur in all of us. The Specialist entrepreneur will enter one industry and stick with it for 15 to 30 years. Opportunist. Specialist.

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Startup Children – How To Parent An Entrepreneur (Part IV) - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

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However, in cards and real-life, you can have a dramatic impact on your ultimate success by ensuring that you recognize when good fortune presents itself, and augment your luck with sound, strategic decisions. You have to make the most of the cards dealt to you, both in poker, and when charting the course of your adVenture.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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I’d like to do a few posts on what life looks like on the way up and perhaps how to keep your head on straight and avoid drinking your own Kool Aid because as I often advise entrepreneurs on irrational exuberance, “ In a strong wind even turkeys can fly.” Poorly implemented this category was the definition of shelfware.

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully.

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Don’t Wait To Catch Up Until Your Customers Hate You

Startup Professionals Musings

After working in business at all levels, and consulting to entrepreneurs for years, I’m still surprised to see so many situations where things that should be easy are painful to customers, and lead to customers hating your business. The days of working hard and expecting lifetime employment with a retirement plan are gone.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully.

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Do you Suffer from the Urgency Addiction? It’s More Common Than you Think

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I has been asked to do the keynote speech at a dinner that night but of course hadn’t written a speech in advance. I wrote out 3 pages of bullet point notes on paper and delivered a 20-minute speech to a crowd of entrepreneurs (which included the Minister of Technology for China). Get some seasoned entrepreneurs to come.

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