Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

Many entrepreneurs seems to be convinced that the “crowd” of regular people using the Internet will somehow solve their startup funding needs, when they sense a lack of interest from accredited investors. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Or, as always, summary notes available below. But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. was starting.

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MAY 13, 2018

In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC). Even though I got a “no” he helped me understand why I wasn’t a fit for him and that always set the bar for how I wanted to treat entrepreneurs?—?friendly,

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2011

Certainly both of these crowd-funding approaches provide the entrepreneur with an opportunity to hone his pitch, and get some real consumer feedback on the idea. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2010

Other writers, like Guy Kawasaki, have irreverently called some of these “entrepreneur lies,” but I prefer to think of them as innocent over-enthusiasm or over-confidence that can kill your deal. It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. The quote from Bryce is: “When an entrepreneur steps to the whiteboard the energy in the room totally changes. That’s an awesome suggestion.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I shifted my thinking a few years ago after I read Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Workweek (link is to a short summary I wrote). I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. It was a young, first-time entrepreneur who wanted to meet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2010

Certainly both of these crowd-funding approaches provide the entrepreneur with an opportunity to hone his pitch, and get some real consumer feedback on the idea. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Marty Zwilling.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

I like to tell entrepreneurs to treat it like a sales campaign. I am really surprised how many entrepreneurs pitch me and then I never hear from them again. ENTREPRENEUR NEXT STEPS. Stay on the radar – You need to find a very polite way to persistently be on the top of the radar screen of your VC.

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JULY 19, 2011

Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. They’re also good at screening candidates. As an entrepreneur I have one company to sell. They do a routine task over-and-over again all year long that we do only periodically. Recruiters. You name it.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. Summary of Topics. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes. And in business we’re seeing a growing presence of entrepreneurs who are incorporating social change into their business models.

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MARCH 30, 2010

He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. Summary view for people who don’t want to read all of the details: it helps you optimize your revenue by comparing the effectiveness of all possible monetization types: cross promotion, in-app purchasing or ads.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Executive Summary. If you want to watch the video version summary of my advice on fund raising it’s here. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. Don’t believe otherwise. Meet early.

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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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JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. We have a great screening process.

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

This is critical to peace of mine, but … If I DO need to get work done I’m infinitely more productive if I come to my computer with a big screen and keyboard. After responding to email, rather than checking Facebook I find myself going straight to Axios to check the news summary. My routine has changed a great deal.

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