Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

If you are going to be a real entrepreneur, it’s important that you know yourself well. In any case, your skills, talent, knowledge, personality, and strengths are your best assets as an entrepreneur. but I see them applying equally well to every entrepreneur, man or woman. Know all of you - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

From LA Demo Day to Silicon Beach Fest to Crowdstart LA to hackathons to Startup Weekends, companies and entrepreneurs alike have joined forces to feed the startup ecosystem. THIRD TIME’S A CHARM: On Sunday we presented to a panel of judges consisting of entrepreneurs and a VC investor. Interesting offer considering he did nothing.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2013

The three founders of the company, Sean Callahan, Rodney Rumford, and Daniel Marashilian, are all serial entrepreneurs. The startup, headed by Sean Callahan, says its new service lets users create quick, 7-question surveys which can be answered on a desktop, mobile, or on a user''s website. The firm calls itself the "Twitter of surveys".

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 15, 2011

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their venture. Often these facets of entrepreneurship don’t rear their ugly head until well down the road. Personal wealth management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

As an entrepreneur, you have to improvise and adapt quickly to survive and thrive in the face of the unpredictable challenges of the market. Entrepreneurs need to walk the talk, be consistent, passionate, and accountable for their actions. Don’t let blame rear its ugly head. Improvisation does require training.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 7, 2016

The entrepreneur cannot wait to show me their product via a demo. Most entrepreneurs seem confused by my reaction and often say something like: “VCs love demos. GUI Fever – Entrepreneurs are often justifiably proud of their clever, clean user interfaces. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 24, 2010

The ability to objectively critique ones creative output is vital to an entrepreneur. Gordy’s inspiration for Motown’s unique quality control process was the Lincoln-Mercury assembly line, where he worked prior to becoming an entertainment entrepreneur. Tags: Corporate Culture Entrepreneur The Fringe. Idea Cronyism.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2014

Of course I’ve talked about wanting to get to know entrepreneurs over long periods of time ( lines, not dots ) – my most referred to post. I seek out great entrepreneurs. I look for passionate entrepreneurs who have a love for the industry they’re serving. I wrote here about why I avoid party rounds.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Coming up with a new idea, and launching your startup is one thing, three entrepreneurs do this every second. In this article, five entrepreneurs share their top tips for preventing stagnation and effectively scaling a business. The most important thing to do when stagnation rears its ugly head is to not panic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2020

Indeed, it is even more critical that you keep your key team members energized with a high level of passion and purpose, or burnout rears its ugly head, putting the future of your whole business in jeopardy. I’m convinced that most entrepreneurs and most teams are operating well below their fully-charged capacity most of the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2010

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their venture. Often these facets of entrepreneurship don’t rear their ugly head until well down the road. Personal wealth management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2013

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their venture. Often these facets of entrepreneurship don’t rear their ugly head until well down the road. Personal wealth management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you have to improvise and adapt quickly to survive and thrive in the face of the unpredictable challenges of the market. Entrepreneurs need to walk the talk, be consistent, passionate, and accountable for their actions. Don’t let blame rear its ugly head. Improvisation does require training.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 17, 2015

Most entrepreneurs assume that a lack of an online reputation is a good thing. Occasional engagement and visibility in forum discussions and industry activities establishes positive content to offset the random negative comment that every passionate entrepreneur is sure to generate. The Internet sees the good, the bad and the ugly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2012

Most entrepreneurs expect to face the “normal” challenges of starting a business, which include finding the right opportunity, building and executing a winning plan, and financing their venture. Often these facets of entrepreneurship don’t rear their ugly head until well down the road. Personal wealth management.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

If you are going to be a real entrepreneur, it’s important that you know yourself well. In any case, your skills, talent, knowledge, personality, and strengths are your best assets as an entrepreneur. but I see them applying equally well to every entrepreneur, man or woman. Know all of you - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

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socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2021

The one thing the investors I mentioned all the way through-is they have put a lot of trust into me as an entrepreneur, and they trusted me. It was an ugly time of uncertainty. To get back to the question, the investors were quite supportive. There was a COVID operating plan adjustment, and there was a COVID 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

My starting line with every entrepreneur is that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned from F’ing it up on my first business. I know it sounds ugly, but it happens. This is part of my ongoing series, “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I even put that in the the preamble to my Start-up Lessons outline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The bad news is that patent trolls (non-practicing companies that make their money from licensing patents) can squeeze the lifeblood out of unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the continuing mess around Lodsys suing small Apple IOS developers. They know that these entrepreneurs don’t have the skill or resources to defend themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you have to improvise and adapt quickly to survive and thrive in the face of the unpredictable challenges of the market. Entrepreneurs need to walk the talk, be consistent, passionate, and accountable for their actions. Don’t let blame rear its ugly head. Improvisation does require training.

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InfoChachkie

JANUARY 25, 2012

Tal Siach is a life-long serial entrepreneur who has mastered social media as a guerrilla marketing tool. I am not ugly.’ In my recent interview with Tal, he describes how his actions encouraged Intuit to play nice with Mint. He also describes how he used Digg to discover the ugliest person on Facebook.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2016

It was an ugly time in my life, but I tried to make lemons into lemonade. I no longer owned the URL that was mine since 1996 and I was up to my eyeballs at that time with legal issues, as I had personally guaranteed the Mini Cooper fleet, office equipment and a whole lot of company loans. Then another. It never went anywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The bad news is that patent trolls can squeeze the lifeblood out of innocent and unsuspecting entrepreneurs, as exemplified by the current mess around Lodsys patent No. They know that these entrepreneurs don’t have the skill or resources to defend themselves. Patents only help the big guys who want no change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2013

Ugly upsells through self-service are a brand killer. entrepreneur startup marketing customer service savvy business' For the staff, they need to understand customer issues, and you need to test the tone and culture of the people behind the scenes.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Do you have any advice for emerging entrepreneurs regarding how they can be frugal without compromising their company’s value prop? Bootstrapping requires that the entrepreneur go out and talk to their users or clients. What advice do you have for an emerging entrepreneur who is in the midst of building an addVisor team?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2012

Ugly upsells through self-service are a brand killer. For the staff, they need understand customer issues, and you need to test the tone and culture of the people behind the scenes. It’s getting tougher and tougher to outsource this tone and technology to other cultures halfway around the globe.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2009

For example, Desperate Housewives, Gray's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Pushing Daisies--we do a lot of films. Tags: consumer brand foodie food pepaj babette bakespace startup entrepreneur interview. We also created a recipe swap. One of our biggest partners is ABC, where you can take recipes inspired by each of the shows. READ MORE>>.

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Steve Reich

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

The team felt like failures even though they had beaten some ugly odds. For entrepreneurs? No great fortunes were established, but it was nevertheless a substantial success, given the 95% failure rate for startups. Everyone was depressed. At least not too often. For investors?

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 10, 2010

Intellectual Property (IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Tags: Corporate Communications Entrepreneur Partnerships Strategic Planning The Fringe. William Shakespeare, British Playwright, from Love’s Labour’s Lost , 1598. It requires you to expend your two most valuable resources, your time and your money. Meredith Publishing.

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Frank Addante

MAY 3, 2006

By Frank Addante The purpose of this blog is to share experiences, advice and philosophies with other entrepreneurs, my team, the companies I advise and the curious. I plan to give it to you ugly: good ugly and bad ugly. Welcome to FounderBlog! I dropped out of college at 19. this blog might be interesting to you.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We have three partners--two are bankers, and one is an entrepreneur and self-made millionaire, Edward Chen, who is our Chairman and CEO. That gives attractiveness, and removes some of the stigma that solar panels are ugly. About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us.

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Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

We didn’t hire resumes and experience, we hired smart, good people who wanted to be entrepreneurs. It was ugly. And, we were very quickly chipping away at their customer base, too. 3: “All-Star Team&# We won because we had the best team. Every person on my team was A-class. They were trying to block the success of our IPO.

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