Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review. Status of the solution.

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Technical Review Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 108

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Perhaps outbound dialing / emailing programs worked well for growth equity firms in their core business. “Hi [entrepreneur], I hope all is well.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Email Equity 294

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

If you’re raising funds from angels you’ll likely need to get investments from several different players. Expect to be diluted by 20-25% with each equity round. They’re typically issued at a 10-20% discount to equity depending on the timeframe; higher range is for longer timeframes. You don’t raise as a way to test your idea.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 3, 2012

When I say “get personal,” I am referring to non-typical questions designed to determine who the candidate really is. Read Part I HERE , Part II HERE and Part III HERE. This article originally appeared at Inc.com HERE. They smile, they laugh on cue and they have a rehearsed response for every conventional interview question.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.

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