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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2023
The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Based on my own experience as a mentor and angel investor, I find that as many as ninety percent of startups fail in the first five years, despite their best efforts.
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 14, 2023
When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Either could improve the statistic that half of startups fail within the first five years. It’s now obvious that there is no market for what I created.”
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Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2021
In my role as advisor and mentor to many new entrepreneurs, I often find myself suggesting that they think bigger. For example, I’m not sure the world needs one more social media niche site, or another dating site, or yet another flavored drink alternative. Communicate and market your solution to the max.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 18, 2020
When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Either could improve the statistic that half of startups fail within the first five years. It’s now obvious that there is no market for what I created.”
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 6, 2020
For example, Lyft and Uber were able to capitalize on the current ride-sharing trend worldwide by tracking statistics that indicated reduced interest in car ownership by millennials, lack of parking spaces, and auto ownership costs moving up rapidly. As Andy Grove famously wrote, “Only the paranoid survive.”
Tech.Co
JANUARY 10, 2018
If you as a founder don’t think that appealing to women should be a part of your marketing strategy, you are wrong, and will lose. Recent statistics show that women “ purchase over 50 percent of traditional male products, including automobiles, home improvement products, and consumer electronics,” according to GirlPowerMarketing.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 15, 2018
When I heard a friend and business mentor say, “Your startup won’t fail if you don’t quit,” I realized that every entrepreneur should adopt “never give up” as their mantra. Either could improve the statistic that half of startups fail within the first five years. It’s now obvious that there is no market for what I created.”
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