Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2023

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. The reality is that good ideas are always challenged, so you need to expect it.

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Berkonomics

MAY 11, 2023

So, what do you think is more important? But the most important ones for any size business, including start-ups, is: Do you believe it should be the quality of your management team, or the plan you execute so brilliantly toward your success? Do you want a unanimous answer right away? There may be more choices here.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Do take money from experienced family members only after you ask them if they are sure three or more separate times. Some relatives believe that a family bond is an insurance policy, and that all investments or notes will always be repaid, no matter what the circumstance. even if your hair is on fire and the idea is worth billions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Many people believe that new ideas are the critical element of innovation, but in my experience as a mentor and investor, long-term business success is more about implementation than ideas. Everyone has ideas, but only a few can make them happen. Vision is the big picture that all constituents can relate to.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 7, 2012

Ideas are infinite, and in the absence of competent execution, they are worth nothing. Thus, if both ideas and money are abundant, what is the scarce constraint in the fundraising equation? Skilled entrepreneurs bring ideas and money together by building a bridge of trust. Grubbing For Money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

A common request I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to assess things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds. Here are seven key considerations for how you should make your own best entrepreneur business idea decision in this context: Pick something you really enjoy doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. A new idea is a step into the unknown, and always represents some risk.

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Ideas Case Study Mobile Resource 92

socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Can tapping the power of the crowd not only help you find customers and help fund your project, but also help you shape your startup idea and find funding? A new, Los Angeles area startup, JumpStartFund (www.jumpstartfund.com) recently launched, offering up a combination of crowdfunding and crowd-advice for entrepreneurial ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

A common request I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to assess things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds. Here are seven key considerations for how you should make your own best entrepreneur business idea decision in this context: Pick something you really enjoy doing.

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Ideas Satisfaction Entrepreneur Activity 108

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2023

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. They need to regularly listen to a few mavericks and outsiders who routinely generate nonlinear ideas and trends.

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Berkonomics

JULY 28, 2022

In past insights, we’ve looked at leadership skills, ways to enhance effectiveness, and how to develop creative ideas that motivate and propel your organization to greatness. Do your people come up to you as you walk among them, or lower their heads, turn away, or find a way to look extra busy? Here’s a simple test. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

A common request I hear from aspiring entrepreneurs is for an assessment of their latest idea. I don’t even try to assess things at the idea level, since I can’t read minds. Here are seven key considerations for how you should make your own best entrepreneur business idea decision in this context: Pick something you really enjoy doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Investors invest in people, not ideas. The Power of Self-Discipline ,” outlined seven ways to make other people feel important, which I believe are extremely relevant to entrepreneurs and business: Accept people the way they are. Consideration is the discipline to do and say things to people that are important to them.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. The market definition has changed but what we do mostly hasn’t. two founders in a garage?—?(HP

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2023

Many people think that innovation is easy: You sit around with your buddies and magical ideas pop into your head. Everybody wants to do the fun stuff: shuck and jive with the beautiful people, and create fun marketing campaigns. They believe they won’t make hiring mistakes, so will never have to fire anyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Starting and building a company is all about leadership – formulating an idea, building a unique plan based on vision and experience, and forging a path over and through all obstacles. We force the adoption of our ideas. People on your team want to believe! They want stories that compare what they are doing with others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2023

The short answer is that some banks will help, if you do your homework. The first thing to remember is that banks only do loans – they generally don’t do equity investments like angels and venture capitalists (and vice versa). If you don’t have that, there are things that you can do to compensate. An impressive team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As a mentor to many business professionals and owners, and aspiring entrepreneurs, I find a wealth of innovative ideas, but often less insight on what it really takes to transform ideas into an income stream that can excite new customers into long-term business success. A great innovation starts with at least three ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2022

But you have to be committed to the process of building your own thing and the act of creating something, rather than just coming up with an idea. It will likely take several ideas, with the learning process of failing on a couple, before you can call yourself a successful entrepreneur. You can't do it alone. Learn to lead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 4, 2022

As a startup advisor and investor, I’ve met many aspiring entrepreneurs, and I often get asked the question, “I have a great idea for a startup – do you agree that it real potential?” Of course, you do need to consider how often that strategy has worked for you, and how often it backfired.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2022

This is a good thing, or the business world would be chaos, with everyone trying to do their own thing. How do you know if you should be running your own company, or concentrating on that queue of work that someone else has built for you? Entrepreneurs have a great sense of urgency to develop their ideas now. So what about you?

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InfoChachkie

JULY 25, 2011

It is seductive to believe one can achieve great things by daydreaming, sleeping or even becoming intoxicated. Great ideas are like earbugs, you cannot shake them. If you do not annoy your friends, loved ones and acquaintances by your incessant focus on your earbug idea, then it probably is not worthy of your time and attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Thus, in my view, entrepreneurship is an evolution of an idea through a series of developmental stages, culminating in a self-sustaining business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

So what do we mean by in-stream advertising? Turns out this conversation is pretty important and what many people want to do. And at least in the case of UberTwitter I can tell you they do run their own banner ads. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Business success is still more about the people than the technology or idea involved. Hill attributes his ten rules of success to Andrew Carnegie, who was in his prime well before that, over a hundred years ago, but I believe the principles are still relevant. Without imagination, entrepreneurs can never dream up new ideas.

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Technical Review Ideas Entrepreneur Customer 119

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He succinctly outlines the key behaviors that I believe every business leader must focus on, to drive innovation without waiting for the next competitive crisis: Avoid the assumption that current gifts will keep on giving. They need to regularly listen to a few mavericks and outsiders who routinely generate nonlinear ideas and trends.

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Tips Framework Competition Ideas 160

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Only after they see you as fundable, do they want to assess your plan for fundability, not the other way around. Talks about the implementation plan, not the idea. M ost entrepreneurs are great at envisioning their business idea, but the implementation is fuzzy. Investors are people too. What are your credentials?

Ideas 108

Ideas Entrepreneur Funding Customer 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Many people think that innovation is easy: You sit around with your buddies and magical ideas pop into your head. Everybody wants to do the fun stuff: shuck and jive with the beautiful people, and create fun marketing campaigns. They believe they won’t make hiring mistakes, so will never have to fire anyone.

Entrepreneur 174

Entrepreneur Sample Guide Ideas 174

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2023

Investors invest in people, not ideas. The Power of Self-Discipline ,” outlined seven ways to make other people feel important, which I believe are extremely relevant to entrepreneurs and business: Accept people the way they are. Consideration is the discipline to do and say things to people that are important to them.

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Customer Custom Outsource Development Entrepreneur 90

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

These things outside your control do happen, but based on my years of experience as a startup advisor and angel investor, I still see too many strategies leading to failure that are inside the entrepreneur decision realm. I believe the old adage that you don’t know what you don’t know until you try to write it down.

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Startup Writing Entrepreneur Ideas 124

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Most of those that have been privileged enough to get a look at what they are actually doing have moved from skeptics to believers. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. They have a can-do attitude that is infectious.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Course 417

TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

Everyone loved the idea but the actual growth was slower than we needed it to be.” “We got to iterate through every possible idea we had. Literally every idea we had was exhausted… We failed and that’s a bummer, but we got a fair shot,” he said. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2022

You shouldn’t be making this decision just because you are mad at your boss, or you would like to be rich, or someone else thinks you have a good idea. Do you love managing your own schedule, overcoming obstacles, starting a new adventure, facing financial risk, and relish the opportunity to change the world? Assess customer demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2022

In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” Do good things outside the job.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Help Startup 89

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2013

When entrepreneurs come to me with that “million dollar idea,” I have to tell them that an idea alone is really worth nothing. For most people, execution is one of those things that seems obvious after the fact when done correctly, but is hard to specify for those trying to learn to do it better. Define a compelling scoreboard.

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Ideas Startup Entrepreneur Customer 98

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You see, investors invest in people, before they invest in ideas or products. Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

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Invest Technical Review Startup Ideas 135

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I’m a believer in the old saying that investors look for great people, more than great ideas. For example, even though Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook as an innovative product, most experts believe it was successful due to his relationship with Peter Thiel and other top VCs that he convinced to invest early.

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