Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Angel investors, particularly those in organized angel groups, are typically former entrepreneurs who have had successful liquidity events in their pasts, or executives of companies who’ve retired with the funds from their stock options. So how an angel responds to your pitch depends upon his or her background. a 33% discount.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 7, 2012

Skilled entrepreneurs bring ideas and money together by building a bridge of trust. If you are fortunate to pitch a sophisticated investor in person, assume they already believe in the veracity of your idea, the market and the underlying technological trends. A miserly approach to spending was a prized Grubstakee trait.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2022

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. My job as a new business advisor is to help entrepreneurs get over this chasm early. Most entrepreneurs find that they are their own toughest critics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Beware of any offer that asks you to spend money before you can make money, to buy a starter kit, education, or tools. Work at home to fund your startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2013

The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” Great entrepreneurs seem to all exhibit a common set of attributes which go well beyond the basic skills required to be an entrepreneur: “Larger than life” personality and presence. Practice learning as an action sport.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2012

The ultimate compliment that any entrepreneur can get is that they can “see around corners.” Great entrepreneurs seem to all exhibit a common set of attributes which go well beyond the basic skills required to be an entrepreneur: “Larger than life” personality and presence. Practice learning as an action sport.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Beware of any offer that asks you to spend money before you can make money, to buy a starter kit, education, or tools. Work at home to fund your startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? I have standard answers to all of these questions at least as far as my personal funding preference are concerned. We educate and train and test for a set of skills designed to succeed in 1950.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 12, 2016

If you are in college, advise a High School entrepreneur club. If you are a seasoned executive, work with a team of aspiring entrepreneurs. Refine Your Personal Pitch. You can easily avoid awkward pauses by weaving your Personal Pitch into your networking conversations. Richard Marcinko , Author.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Jon Grishpul: We realized that although there are lots of other services, and in an age of technology and automation where so many things can be automated, there are still some industries like home renovation and construction where you need to have a personal approach. We really want to take a personal approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

This may seem intuitively obvious, but as an angel investor, I have heard hundreds of new business pitches that focus heavily on the product, but don’t tell the rest of the story. She speaks from years of experience coaching entrepreneurs and executives on the magic of a story. Temper your emotion with data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2019

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. My job as a new business advisor is to help entrepreneurs get over this chasm early. Most entrepreneurs find that they are their own toughest critics.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Natalia Oberti Noguera: Pipeline Fellowship is a program to educate and bring more women into the investment side of business. We also want to create more capital for women entrepreneurs to increase the chances of being funded and connected to a bigger network. Entrepreneurs are everywhere and capital isn’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2019

Image via Flickr by ivanpw Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Beware of any offer that asks you to spend money before you can make money, to buy a starter kit, education, or tools. Delete the message.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Guy Kawasaki must have had Nithin (pronounced “Neethen”) in mind when he wrote Enchantment , as his cause and his personality are both highly enchanting. As made clear in Personal Pitch , Entrepreneurs must pull Donors into their orbit figuratively – non-profits have to do so literally. Do what you love.

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

I thought it would be awesome to have a marketplace to donate your stuff, which you no longer wanted, had no personal value, but others would appreciate. We also pitched at the finals of the Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch, and got a very warm reception there. That was the basic, preliminary insight into KarmaGoat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2015

Social media is so pervasive in today’s world that every entrepreneur believes instinctively that they know how to use it for their startup. Many soon find that what you do in a personal context doesn’t necessarily translate to your business, and measuring business value is quite different from measuring personal satisfaction.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 25, 2012

For the average person, you don't want to deal with what kind of packaging you need to buy, having to go to the post office, figuring out who pays for it, how much it costs, and so on. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. I think that's important for other entrepreneurs to know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2017

True business success and leadership starts with real personal values, extends to building a team, and finally to inspiring customers and your community. My job as a new business advisor is to help entrepreneurs get over this chasm early. Most entrepreneurs find that they are their own toughest critics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

One of my favorite entrepreneur-Twitterer weighed in, “You want to keep tapping into their collective intelligence so you keep saying ‘Thank you for the feedback’ and they keep sending it,” Ms. Another founder … “When I pitched the idea to Adam, he was super on board,” Mr. Sloyan said. It’s every person for themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

One of the most frequent questions I get as a mentor to entrepreneurs is “How do I find the money to start my business?” If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 7, 2015

We talk a lot about college entrepreneurs here at Tech.Co, but what about the younger generations? You can grab one to meet either in person or online whenever you need one. Rosenblatt: We plan to recruit young entrepreneurs in various major cities with the intention of expanding nation-wide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many believe that entrepreneurs are born, not made. While I agree that successful company builders usually have a natural inclination to be entrepreneurs, a good education helps polish that apple. We can all point to examples of successful entrepreneurs who dropped out of college, but still went on to make a big impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2011

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. It may even be free, if you sign up for a timeshare pitch at the destination. The pitch will be hell, and you can only see the beach from your hotel through binoculars.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

I like to say to first-time entrepreneurs, picking a VC is more permanent than marriage. Keeping a blog has been great because so many entrepreneurs have written me with questions about their companies and I’ve gotten to know many of you personally through the process. I pitched Gus twice and he told me no both times.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

A cautious person wouldn’t try to pry people out of Twitter right before their IPO to” join my cause!!” Startups have to be optimists because no rational person would actually believe you could build Uber into the amazing company that it is today. The mind of a founder is wired differently than most people.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. Scott Sangster: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and I have been angel funding personally.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

I was in the entrepreneurial program, talking about ideas on how some of the best entrepreneurial ideas come about, and discussed personal pains of ours. We realized that if a process could be put into place, we could not only educate athletes, but empower our coach, and that would have helped us to arrive at the right school.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 8, 2014

And for the entrepreneurs who have tuned in, he also gives some insights into best practices for those looking to raise cash, so you don’t want to miss out! Chance is a local grown entrepreneur with a 15 year track record. His dual experiences, both as an entrepreneur and investor yielded him double the frustrations.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 5, 2011

As noted in RIP RFPs , entrepreneurs should generally avoid RFPs because they cannot afford to expend the time and resources required to participate in such regimented and lengthy sales processes. Thus, by never giving it out, you can honestly say, “Look, it’s not personal. Shocking HP.

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