Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
Of course, there's no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. Many colleges offer courses on entrepreneurship, to help you think like one. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Supplement course work with practical experience. Pick an idea, any idea.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. ” F**k.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 27, 2015
But the status symbol of this milestone is driving investors, entrepreneurs, the press and everybody into thinking you magically can achieve this status in a matter of a few years with a great team and an astounding idea. For a fee, of course. At least for now. I’ve met people straight out of their MBA program doing this.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. I spent nearly a decade building software for large companies and then advising companies on the same. So we discussed his ideas several times. So over several months I went through a few iterations on his idea. This was such a guy.
Tech.Co
MAY 22, 2018
It’s validating that there is a market for their idea. Try to compile all the different types of questions you could be asked about your business, like technical details, financial assumptions and projections, marketing, IP, etc., I would advise trying not to get into an argument with an investor. Prepare for Q&A.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We thought it was a good idea so we brought it up to Goldman. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever. Yes, this was stupid. I’ve done it.
Frank Addante
JUNE 4, 2006
I decided that I was going to consult/advise a few companies and relax for a bit. I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. you are our new IT manager.&#
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