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Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Last week, I was on a panel with other investors discussing the “do’s� and “don’ts� of angel and venture capital investing some one from the audience fired a series of intriguing compounded questions � why are the VC’s so illusive?, � All valid questions and valid statements – the event made me think that entrepreneurs view of the equity investment community is entirely different than that of the inner circle and this mismatch of perceptions is not disruptive and unhealthy. why don’t they have all their information available? Why don’t they disclose how
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Monday, June 18, 2007
There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the first posting: Some Good reasons to Bootstrap 1- Bootstrapping ensures that you build your business on legitimate, real world value propositions. You truly focused on customer value from day one.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
I got the following question from an entrepreneur and I thought I share it with everyone. “Why do many startups actually fail? In my observation, i have felt that there are many a startups which have a brilliant idea, a genuine team to execute that and also a good support for the product they intend to build, but still the companies fail to break even. I
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Sunday, October 7, 2007
In this post RWW talks about some of the new kind of approaches to funding: Y Combinator is creating tech companies with a tiny (10-20K) seed investment; Charles River Ventures started a Quick start program; Jeff Clavier launched a 12M fund for tech startups. I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. What used to cost $1M now takes $100K.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
In my days, I have met with many many entrepreneurs. We have agreed and disagreed on things, learned from each other, and experienced disappointments and successes together. Here is “one� way to slice and dice the group. The Pure Dreamer The pure dreamer is filled with new and novel ideas -- innovations and schemes that will make a lot of money -- for some, every once in a while they see their pictures on the front page of the Time magazine .
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
an Investment - 10 Strategies for Winning Over Your CFO and other Marketing Skeptics
To register for the Webcast on August 21, 2007, go to [lin I received an announcement about a Webcast that looks interesting on how marketers can work with their CFO.
The title of the presentation caught my eye:
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Monday, September 10, 2007
Speaking to entrepreneurs everyday has lead me to believe that most entrepreneurs really like to build a Life Style business and are not in tune with what motivates Venture Capital firms or Angels to invest. So what the heck is a Life business? 1. You build it to operate for many years to come 2.
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Saturday, June 30, 2007
However … there are times that injection of external funding is crucial to the delivery of value and no revenues can be generated unless significant investments are made. There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the third and last posting: So when is bootstraping not a good idea? Almost never!
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Monday, June 18, 2007
There is just too much to say about the topic and I have been warned about being too verbose with lengthily postings so this is a 3 posting series. Following is the first posting: The big picture of bootstrapping Bootstraping, in my opinion, is not about conserving cash or paying out of your credit cards (although those may become ways to achieve it). Bootstrapping is about taking the right action at the right time.
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Friday, September 14, 2007
These days almost every business plan has a viral marketing component to it. How do you get customers? Viral marketing to the rescue; there seems to be an “understanding gap�. I have made it a point in the past few weeks to ask every entrepreneur that brings up the issue “what do you mean by viral marketing?�
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