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Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Every entrepreneur should do the same due diligence on a potential investor that smart investors do on their startups. Here is a summary of some key investor stereotypes that generally need to be avoided: Investment sharks. Many great real-estate people and doctors fall into this category. Pretend investors. Investors for a fee.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 9, 2023
When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Products so innovative that they define a new category. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything.
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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 15, 2020
When entrepreneurs introduce new products to the market, their passion and conviction often leads them to assume that every potential customer will see the immediate need and value, and will quickly adopt the solution. Products so innovative that they define a new category. In today’s information overload, marketing is everything.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 21, 2019
If we build it, they will come ” may have worked as a movie theme for Kevin Costner, but as an investor, I tell entrepreneurs a great solution is not enough. I like their summary of five key components of innovation capital that we should strive to maximize: Human capital: forward thinking, problem solving, persuasion.
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 24, 2010
What Quora has done is wrap social networking around Q&A with the more clever next-gen UX I’ve seen. I wrote the following answer: “I have always believed that UGC (user generated content) website users fall into three categories that follow the 1/9/90 rule. But perhaps the lurker category is smaller.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 14, 2013
Here is a summary of the “big picture” high risk considerations: Inexperienced team. Historically high failure rate category. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. New drugs often fall in this category, due to long clinical trials and FDA approvals required.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 1, 2011
Here is a summary of the “big picture” high risk considerations: Inexperienced team. Historically high failure rate category. On the Internet, I would add new social networking sites, and new matchmaking sites. New drugs often fall in this category, due to long clinical trials and FDA approvals required.
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