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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Why listen: Roger teaches you what he learned from a startup that spent $20 mil before closing.
Why listen: Timothy teaches you to network with bloggers to create an insanely successful book or startup.
Why listen: Mark talks about how he recovered and went on to build a successful startup, after a previous business failed.
1. Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations
Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
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 ). 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.
I know that people have an allergy to lawyers out of fear of being screwed. Much of this is unfounded – some is not.
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Sunday, January 31, 2010
Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I I’ll put up the video when they post it on their website.
Many of them have their iPhones and laptops Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential
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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 But there are a lot of things that become norms in the VC industry that always drove me crazy from entrepreneur’s side of the table. They Translation 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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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
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. started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity .
Street Smarts - OK, so you’re a tenacious person – you never If you haven’t spent time over there you should.
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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
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.
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders I I then covered Street Smarts , Ability to Pivot , Resiliency , Inspiration and Perspiration .
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Monday, November 16, 2009
How he came up with the idea for Goodreads
But people started to get burned out on those big generic sites. So then they started going to these niche sites. You know, today we have Goodreads for books and we have Flickster for movies and we have Netflix and we have LastFM for music.
Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew
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Monday, September 7, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up.
BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. 8221;
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise . In That is so self centered it winds me up. Tell Fail fast = quit and give up easy = spaghetti against the wall = no clear strategy going into your business = no ability / willingness to try and pivot as market conditions change = easy way out = today’s management mantra that will be laughed at in 10 years. Who In that post I was talking about how it is a bad strategy to be underfunded. In In general when capital is available take it (provided it’s on the right conditions and from the best
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Monday, December 7, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice . With With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate.
When I first read this post I immediately filed away in memory that there was important information to impart on entrepreneurs and led to this post. Apologies Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with VCs and Corporates at Conferences
Right after Techcrunch50 Michael Arrington wrote this great post on how to interact at business events and conferences . If
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