Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the process, you may save yourself considerable re-work and money, or even decide that your dream needs more time to mature, before you commit your limited resources, or sign up with investors to a painful and unsatisfying plan. Get started and get some momentum. Early perseverance pays off.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, I think the evidence is clear that many entrepreneurs started their journey while still in college, and capitalized on all the resources there, before moving on: Extend your technology focus with business basics. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

When I saw World Series Poker Champion Annie Duke speak in 2017, I was inspired to write an article describing some of her recruiting techniques. Annie is well positioned to write a book on decision analysis, combining her decades as a professional poker player with her graduate psychology research at the University of Pennsylvania.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The LIHEAP money is critical for the over 12 million Americans who have recently lost their job, the consortium argues and could also help finance the Department of Energy’s Weatherization program. “Startups and small businesses are the engine of every local and regional economy,” writes Peterson.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Assess customer demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2023

In the process, you may save yourself considerable re-work and money, or even decide that your dream needs more time to mature, before you commit your limited resources, or sign up with investors to a painful and unsatisfying plan. Get started and get some momentum. Early perseverance pays off.

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Inverted Software

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

There are many tools to help you analyze your traffic and sales and you can set forth the planning to make whatever corrections you need to. Writing something that is agreed upon by all of your stakeholders and holding you and your team accountable to its completion is an invaluable technique. Set a Roadmap for the upcoming year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I can’t help you get into the right mindset, but I can offer some proven specific steps for translating a business dream into reality, based on my own years of experience working at all levels in the business world: Narrow your focus, to identify your major business goal. Stop talking and writing, and start executing the plan.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2016

Nowhere is this more apparent than working in a startup where you are definitionally under-resourced and trying to make big accomplishments in compressed periods of time. It’s human nature to try and be helpful to others. In many instances this help is genuine, well-meaning and productive. That’s why focus is critical.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

A little known, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your local university. These resources are definitely are not limited to students, since every university wants and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already have credibility in the marketplace.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 16, 2019

We have to force this familiarity, connectivity among women in venture so that people are helping each other.”. The idea is to put women with check-writing abilities, typically partners and general partners, together in groups with newer VCs, typically with an associate or principal title, paired together. It’s highly concentrated.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. Just add more ants, hopefully as resourceful as the first? Why not see the obvious? Or is it more complex?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 18, 2011

This morning, Pasadena-based Perfect Market (www.perfectmarket.com) announced a new, $9M round of funding for the firm's technology, which is used to help publishers monetize their content. Julie Schoenfeld: When we talked last, we were focusing primarily on helping publisher monetize their archived content.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 If you invest early and then pull back in the next 3 rounds your multiples on cash invested are much higher than if you keep writing checks. It takes all types and helping people realize their best skills and interests is an incredibly important part of the job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 5, 2021

John Bradberry, in his classic book “ 6 Secrets To Startup Success ” explores many of these attributes, especially passion, and defines some useful principles to help enthusiastic entrepreneurs squeeze the most out of their passion, while not being trapped by it. These principles will help keep you from falling into the passion trap.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Even if it’s only a few PowerPoint slides or typed paragraphs, writing something down is the first step toward making it real. Always write in the future tense, what you will do, and name yourself as the key person responsible. Create a specific plan to network to get the help you need.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 29, 2017

Trusted, close resources include sophisticated relatives, friends and business associates who know how to structure a deal as a win-win for you and for them, while allowing you to retain control over your vision and execution. So how does the statement above fit into this sandwich of alternatives? Trust works both ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

You help them on stories, act as a source, develop real relationships, read their stories and eventually when you have news they’re more willing to have a conversation. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story about you – a relatively unknown entity – wants to hear directly from the founders and/or the CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2023

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Be a great resource for others. What we all need is trusted advisors who can help us decipher the clutter. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2020

In the process, you may save yourself considerable re-work and money, or even decide that your dream needs more time to mature, before you commit your limited resources, or sign up with investors to a painful and unsatisfying plan. Get started and get some momentum. Early perseverance pays off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 1, 2023

While entrepreneurs often have to make pivots and react to unforeseen challenges, constantly thinking about the worst case scenario will place undue stress on your body and drain your mind of resources that are better used in more productive ways. These will also help you unleash the creative side. Keep expectations realistic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Usually that means writing something down, since it’s hard to maintain something, or track yourself against it, if it’s not written down. What resources do you have, skills and functions, and what do you do best? Providing minimal resources. What personal support resources are available? Assess customer demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Saving cost won’t help you if you can’t make the daily innovations required to stay competitive. It’s hard to write a detailed specification on an evolving new service, process, or product that embodies your core competency. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 16, 2020

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

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Berkonomics

MAY 29, 2014

Business plans are dynamic instruments used on a regular basis to help owners and executives to plan for future growth, and. Helps you to be more focused. The plan helps an owner realize how interrelated all aspects of the business are. It helps other answer the following question: Will they have a chance to succeed?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2021

Kevin Cope, in his classic book “ Seeing the Big Picture ”, does a great job of outlining the basics of business acumen for executives, and helped me assimilate some practical ideas on building the essential elements for entrepreneurs: Reserve time daily to research the market, as well as technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re an early investor like I am that often means writing the first $2-3 million check into a business that previously had either survived on fumes or on a $500,000 angel round. I have seen many companies raise their first $3 million and still act like a company that has no resources at all.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2022

After some review of available resources, I’m convinced that problem solving is a learnable trait, rather than just a birthright. If you can explain the problem to a mentor, or even write it down, you will more likely get to the root cause quickly, and avoid emotional and blame-infused responses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2020

Finally, implementation requires a commitment of real money and other resources that can’t be written off so easily as an idea ahead of it’s time. Expand your own learning and knowledge by helping others. In addition, creating a business requires leading and interacting with other people, including partners, investors, and customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2023

Startups have limited resources, so the founders have to enjoy trying things, and learning from their mistakes. But if you are looking for investors, team members, and demanding customers, it helps to understand what their biases might be in committing to and helping the ideal partner.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 9, 2016

So the lion recruited a cockroach who had extensive experience as a supervisor and who was famous for writing excellent reports. He also needed a secretary to help him write and type his reports. Just add more ants, hopefully as resourceful as the first? Why not see the obvious? Or is it more complex?

Report 120

Report Writing Startup Course 120

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2020

If you can’t write it down, you probably don’t understand it. Be a great resource for others. What we all need is trusted advisors who can help us decipher the clutter. Writing, audios, and videos are all great ways to do this, since these all facilitate the one-to-many multiplier.

Social Media 126

Social Media Media Ideas Writing 126

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Few of your contacts will be willing to use their valuable social or political capital helping you with a sales effort, and you will definitely strain your relationship with the intermediary if not a close friend. After all, you have a paying relationship with these resources, and asking for help is not considered a daunting request.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Especially for entrepreneurs who have not built and sold companies before, and need this startup to be an attractive acquisition or IPO target in a few years, I can’t think of a better way to enlist outside experts and keep them motivated to help you meet the challenges of a startup. Fail to establish adequate structure.

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