Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. For aspiring entrepreneurs, or if your last startup failed, it’s all about standing out above the crowd of others like you. Financial model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. But with the pressures of the economy, and limited access to outside funding, we all know this isn’t always possible or appropriate. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans take too much time, are inaccurate, and rarely add value. The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Behind most great startup success stories is a long list of mistakes! Every startup mentor has his favorite list of basic strategies to avoid pitfalls, and I’m no exception. I offer these pragmatic recommendations: Buffer your funding requirements. You should buffer the first by 50%, and the second by 25%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff. Pitch your company, not your product. Executive summary glossy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. But with the pressures of the economy, and limited access to outside funding, we all know this isn’t always possible or appropriate. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Often I find that experienced investors flip to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. Fortune 1000 CEOs usually don’t make good startup CEOs, and vice versa. The startup road is guaranteed to be long and hard. There is no substitute for experience and mentoring.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2014

Sponsored by VISA Business With all the new technology available today for video conferencing, interactive social media, and webinars, you may think that travel is no longer a requirement for starting a small business. Yet I still see business plans and funding plans for startups that have minimal or no allocation for travel.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 9, 2014

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. The money will end up following you.” Tony Hsieh Without a clear purpose, a startup can meander along without much momentum. Chase the vision not the money. Here are two examples. By focusing on the ‘why?’

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. We followed up with Luc to see just how he’s been managing the entrepreneurial waters. The quintessential problem that every startup has is one of visibility.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2013

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. But with the pressures of the economy, and limited access to outside funding, we all know this isn’t always possible or appropriate. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. But with the pressures of the economy, and limited access to outside funding, we all know this isn’t always possible or appropriate. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2010

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. But with the pressures of the economy, and limited access to outside funding, we all know this isn’t always possible or appropriate. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the most common complaints I hear from entrepreneurs is that they are overwhelmed by the workload and stress of starting their company. But with the pressures of the economy, and limited access to outside funding, we all know this isn’t always possible or appropriate. Multiple pages of work items won’t get done anyway.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2015

They suffered in trying to live up to public perceptions and the demands to continue their successes. The road is littered with startups that shined bright before burning out. Startups are All Naked in the Mirror. Advisors / Coaches / Mentors. It was a lot to bear. Every founder knows this. The Perils of Founder Fighting.

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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. Startup Weekend is a 54-hour frenzy in which a group of strangers can come together to form a company and compete for prizes.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

TechZulu caught up with Johan Nel, Founder and CEO. Referencing the traditional noticeboard concept, you start by creating a Mimiboard using a location, could be an area, town, street name. For example, goods for sale – people add items that are for sale, their contact details, images of the product. Any funding yet, how much?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Here are some specifics that I recommend as a startup advisor for maintaining a properly balanced perspective. Keep up on business issues as diligently as on technology issues. Develop written business plans as detailed as product plans. Yet their business plans rarely get more than a page or two written.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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