Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2022

I believe these same mindsets are equally applicable to the entrepreneurs I mentor, and all of you small business leaders, so I offer you my summary of the authors’ conclusions, paraphrased here, with my own insights: Be bold in vision, strategy, and resource allocation. Make the team the star to do the heavy lifting. Keep the teams strong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2021

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs and occasional angel investor, I often see and hear innovative product pitches that sound exciting, but are missing one or more of the key business elements that investors deem critical for funding consideration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Most sophisticated investors ignore them, focusing their attention on an entrepreneur's pitch and presentation materials, financial forecast and executive summary. As noted in Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Venture Capitalists , most sophisticated investors place their bets on people rather than opportunities.

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Tech.Co

AUGUST 16, 2017

Finding potential customers continues to be a huge challenge not only for established marketing and sales teams but also for startup executives and solo entrepreneurs. It offers a variety of conversion-optimized templates, which B2B firms, agencies, small businesses, entrepreneurs, and universities can use.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Great networking skills, which are critical when you want to be about to reference entrepreneurs & concepts and bounce your ideas off of other people in the industry. He was also an undergraduate of the one place that I think is cranking out some of the best young entrepreneurs and investors these days – Wharton.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Their primary intended reader is a “first-time entrepreneur”, but clearly other stakeholders within the startup universe can also benefit from the book’s hands-on advice. They are both former entrepreneurs and current Partners at Foundry Group , a highly successful, early stage venture firm. The Magicians Tells Their Secrets.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 23, 2015

However, rather than obsessing on a single metric, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “maybe.” If the customer is reticent to share it, provide them with an email template they can readily forward.

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Tech.Co

MAY 31, 2023

Launching and growing a startup is one of the biggest missions an entrepreneur can undertake. The email marketing platform lets you create tailored email content with templates and a drag-and-drop builder. Most of these features are available for free.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2012

You have security wherever you go because you have become big entrepreneurs and are giving talks all over to up and coming entrepreneurs and app developers. In the search page, users can view/edit/delete their dreams and also share with a unique website link that displays the dream in a simple template via social media (e.g.,

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Marketing your startup can be one of the most daunting tasks an entrepreneur faces on their journey to world domination. Find a designer or template that gives you a clean, non-pixelated look with a balanced feel. Pro tip: If you don’t have a developer and need to hack a template, be sure that the functionality is up to par.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

A diligent entrepreneur should certainly work the important details for his or her startup, especially when it comes to assessing any negative fluctuations in the business. I’ve taken the liberty of extending these for entrepreneurs, based on my own experience: Showcase your creativity on the front lines. Accountability is crucial.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Rather than obsessing about an indirect gauge of customer satisfaction, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “five.”. As noted in Personal Pitch , entrepreneurs must make it easy for others to help them succeed.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Rather than obsessing about an indirect gauge of customer satisfaction, entrepreneurs should focus on improving their Net Profit Score. A quick “No” is far more valuable to a busy entrepreneur than a nebulous NPS response of “five.”. As noted in Personal Pitch , entrepreneurs must make it easy for others to help them succeed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, lawyers, venture capitalists, or Angels. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. business ecommerce entrepreneur startup' The cost of entry has never been lower.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

The new war for platforms has mostly been waged by Andreessen Horowitz who have raised astounding amounts of capital and therefore had the fees to put into providing more services for entrepreneurs. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. It’s always such a pleasure for me to spend time with Farb because he has all of the enthusiasm and energy you love to see in entrepreneurs. He’s also candid, humble and helpful.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The cost of entry has never been lower. Personalize a simple web site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

Investors expect energy, conviction, and commitment from entrepreneurs. My friend, Dave Bittner , offers a simple template to get started that will work for most products and services: “We sell [product/service deliverable] to [market niche] who want [unmet market need]. At the end of your pitch, you must ask for something.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or Angels. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. The cost of entry has never been lower. Personalize a simple web site.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 29, 2013

In addition to utilizing reputation management services such as YellowBot , entrepreneurs must become proficient online advocates, defending their businesses against unjust and unfounded attacks. Below are some customer complaint rebuttal lessons entrepreneurs can draw from Tige''s skillful approach.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. New England Investment Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Anyone can be an entrepreneur today, without a huge investment, bank loans, venture capitalists, or angels. Customize your website using one of the tools above, selecting one of the standard templates for design and layout. Tags: e-commerce entrepreneur startup website. The cost of entry has never been lower. Marty Zwilling.

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Frank Addante

AUGUST 2, 2006

Hire Entrepreneurs! Hire Entrepreneurs! By Frank Addante Is it safe to hire entrepreneurs? These are all prerequisites for a good entrepreneur. When we hired, we always said that we were looking for entrepreneurs to join our team. Entrepreneurs, by nature, are loyal and extremely dedicated.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2015

With Foos Studios, we'll continue to release templates for games, but also we're releasing templates for animated storytelling, for digital art, for making interactive greeting cards for mom and dad, and even things like choreography.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 8, 2016

I thought it would be interesting to understand the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs who began selling online for the first time in 2016, so I sat down with Heidi Muther, COO at Z S upply , LLC. Greathouse: Fashion, much like music and the arts, inspires a large number of young entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. This is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel investors flock of angels.

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Frank Addante

MAY 20, 2007

A BIG THANK YOU to 3,500 entrepreneurs in 50+ countries By Frank Addante May 3 was the 1 year anniversary of this blog. I started this blog as a place to share my experiences and thoughts with a small group of entrepreneurs and companies that I advise. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 3, 2015

The startup ecosystem is not just made up of entrepreneurs and investors; it also includes lawyers, bankers, HR and payroll providers as well as financial services providers. Navigating the ins and out of employment law — Complying with employment law can be a minefield, tripping up not just startups but also much larger companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The specific things you’re looking for are: intelligence, ability to think creatively, ability to work with customers on vaguely defined problems, ability to assemble an ROI business case (with a template already created by marketing) and above all else the ability to listen, summarize and follow-through.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

You can structure your Venture Value Scorecard any way you like (you can download our free Venture Value Scorecard Template here ), but I suggest organizing it around the following key elements of value: People: A strong team is obviously central to value creation. That way, you can go back and review the progress you’ve made.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We do not have reams of templates in our software. With such big clients, how do you handle the inevitable requests for customization? Ryan Costello: It's an interesting balance. First and foremost, early on we decided to be a white canvas solution. It's what the market needs. They have their own style sheets, their own style guides.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

I started as a sole proprietorship, used templates for business plans, and spent the last two years just trying to figure out what monetization means. Lots of that comes into play within academia, which normal entrepreneurs don't have to deal with. But, I felt that pull of starting a company. We have three or four now.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2010

Jason Nazar: Legal contracts, business forms and templates, conference presentations, financial models, research reports, any kind of professional content that you have which you use on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. It's the eBay of professional documents. What kind of documents do you envision people offering through the site?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

So many of the sections of an RFP (request for proposal) are standard questions that can be templated out. Scaling a business is often about the boring stuff that doesn’t excite the early-stage entrepreneurs. RFP Generators – Another obvious investment area. And that’s kind of fitting.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

The software works on a variety of platforms, including Wordpress, Blogger, Joomla, Drupal, Tumblr, Moveable Type, and we also have a Javascript universal code option, which is raw code you can drop into any template you might be using. Back to the product, can you talk more about how voting works?

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