Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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. This association is definitely one of the world’s leading organization for advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

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. This association is definitely one of the world’s leading organization for advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2018

One of the lessons I have learned over the years as a business executive, and now as a mentor to entrepreneurs, is that if you really want employees who enthusiastically take ownership of their work, you have to start treating them like owners, not renters. By definition, the freedom box is different for every owner.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 12, 2016

Long before author Stephen King sold over 350 million books, he was a budding entrepreneur. Unlike entrepreneurs, whose survival is similarly based on their ability deliver value to their customers, politicians and big company executives routinely confuse activities with results. By definition, startups are unproven.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

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. This association is definitely one of the world’s leading organization for advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship. Are you and your startup ready to make the cut?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2013

Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don''t take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. By definition, people who project negativity are not going to be perceived as leaders. Rockefeller, knew how to laugh at themselves.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

How do you find somebody that is exceptionally bright, driven and accomplished and yet still be humble enough to understand that the founders we back are the ones who have invented technologies and have to live with the day-to-day decision-making and hard choices. This latter bit is very important to us and very hard to achieve.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2011

Google can definitely work complimentary to what we are doing. I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. How would you describe your relationship with your investors and what can young entrepreneurs learn from your philosophy? “I I see where they are going and I am excited by it.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 18, 2010

I suffer from the “urgency addiction.&# I know it sounds like one of the falsely humble things like telling somebody in a job interview that your weakness is that you’re too much of a perfectionist. Here’s how I break down the four quadrants (and I’ve put my definitions in here – not Covey’s).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. I guess if you do more than one, I guess by definition, that’s serial. It’s humbling to spend time in India.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

When you can live where you want to live and make money doing what you love to do, you are, by my definition, a screaming success. Six outstanding entrepreneurs have created this sweet flavor of success in one of the most beautiful places on earth – Santa Barbara, California. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 31, 2014

That Bob overcame his initial anxiety and reached out to his future mentor, is an important lesson for all young entrepreneurs. They force you to explore the facts and pursue a definitive path. It is best to enter into every new situation humble, with the assumption that you do not have all the answers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don't take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. By definition, people who project negativity are not going to be perceived as leaders. Rockefeller, knew how to laugh at themselves.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. Surround yourself with great advisors or other entrepreneurs.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 25, 2015

I lost that for a bit, but I’m back now and I’m stronger, smarter and more humble. But, the positives definitely outweigh the negatives. CEO at [link] | entrepreneur | techie | dad | TEDxAmericanRiviera host | foodie | awesome speller | #Buckeyes. I won’t fail again. I can’t. I’ve learned so much.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I also sometimes start a speech by asked for people to raise their hands if they fit a certain demographic. &# Raise your hand if you’re an entrepreneur, raise your hand if you plan to raise venture capital in the next year, raise your hand if you’re a service provider to the startup industry,&# etc. Rahul and Co.

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