Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2022

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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JULY 12, 2010

I suppose there’s some truth to that but of course it’s an over simplification. And that’s how I view VC today. If you’re not engaging your VC this way you’re losing out. If you’re not engaging your VC this way you’re losing out. Such is leadership. But in the end they decide.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. Still, as a VC I value proprietary dealflow & long term relationships. Mostly, I don’t believe that a VC not being on AngelList is “anti entrepreneur&# – it is not.

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JUNE 9, 2013

You can of course view the presentation in SlideShare above or download it directly for free here. If your closet is full of clothes and your credit card is full of debt – of course you’re going to trade clothes with other people rather than only buying new stuff. Venture capital will be easy and then hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2019

The bad news is that it’s still a jungle fight for survival for entrepreneurs of all ages and demographics, with over 80 percent not having access to bank loans or venture capital. The jungle framework is a great one to set the right perspective. Treasure – Most entrepreneurs assume that treasure means funding.

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MARCH 28, 2010

McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks. And of course there was the Michael Porter’s “ 5 Forces.&# Frankly, I kind of found all of this stuff to be bullshit (bull shiitake?) But tell me how practical is the 7s’s, really?

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FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I suppose it can be different for every founder and for different VCs but I’d like to offer you some context on what I think it is and it isn’t. Of course as a frequently traveler I know this, too. In my view the best VCs are merely your guides.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. Respectfully, of course.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. Or of course you could watch it live – we take questions for the audience.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

Not that good old fashioned leg work isn’t still required of course.). But of course, this isn’t to be mixed up. The formation of SeedInvest was deeply rooted in Ryan’s background in venture capital and investment. Introducing SeedInvest. Total investment interest in startups on SeedInvest? 116,105,000.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. These are all dumb reason to invest – of course.

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JANUARY 28, 2011

They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. Nah, of course not. You want somebody who can lead teams on three continents. Leaders are intelligent, for sure.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain.

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