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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
Even an extraordinary engineer or product lead who have built a breakthrough product aren’t guaranteed success unless they can get access to capital, get much needed press to drive low-cost customer acquisition and persuade fickle business leaders to join their company and help them shape their businesses beyond tech innovation.
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Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 11, 2020
Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 23, 2015
As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I often get asked what you can do to build the right culture. Customize your organizational structure based on individuals' strengths. Mentoring and training programs need to be put in place early. Technology can be used to facilitate customer support and sales, as well as enhance your product.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
That doesn’t mean that everyone needs to participate in creating the typical marketing hype, or needs to face the press on a regular basis. Unfortunately, I often find team members who are not believers, or have a different view of the customer. Provide cross-functional mentoring and coaching. The result is no deal.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Do research on investor visibility via Google and social media. Invite the investor to dinner or fun-related activity.
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