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Thursday, January 21, 2010
If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have.
When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers ” written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ).
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . Many startup companies hire advisory boards. If you plan to set one up – no problem. Advisory Board Problems : There are several problems that I have encountered myself and in my many discussions with CEO’s who have set up advisory boards.
It’s very tempting. It’s mostly done by first-time entrepreneurs who want to persuade (bribe?)
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capita This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC” – the outline is here.
You’ve Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. Most
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series, “ Startup Lessons .” You start a company 50/50 with a good friend. If Or maybe it’s not a good friend but you’re a business guy and hooked up with a technical guy you know through the network and you think you’ll work well together or vice-versa.
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Yesterday I wrote a blog post ( here ) in which I urged people to not have too many founders. Best
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. Many entrepreneurs make the mistake of thinking that funding is something you do in “funding season,” some mythical 2-month period when you’re ready with a great Powerpoint deck and you hit up all of the VC’s at the This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC” – the outline is here .
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
I started with a “top 11″ list – only because I couldn’t fit them into a top 10. But But in the end I ended up with 12. So So he left and focused on starting companies. I Should we take angel money or just go for a seed round from a VC? This is part of my series on Entrepreneurial DNA that was originally published on VentureHacks . I I know this series has been running for a while (and is getting long in the tooth) – I promise it’s nearly over. I
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I 8230; my last start-up was seed funded by a mega-successful angel … [but] they would not be investing in the third tranche … I had already burned the little savings I had to get the business going and with the story of this investor pulling out hanging around us, it was going to be very difficult to raise from somewhere else. This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Last night I attended a DealMaker Media (whom I love because they always host such great discussions) panel on raising angel money moderated by Dan Gould and with panelists Rob Hayes (First Round Capital, more seed or A round than angel), Scot Sangster (with OrganicStartup and [...]
...Tags: Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advic This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I If I’m up super late trying to crank out work I often get IM messages from Jason at 1am. We get the same criticism in Los Angeles.
This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful . I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs.
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