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Monday, August 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful.
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
know that this will sound like a random post topic for startup advice but I promise it’s relevant. You When I started blogging I had an idea. I I would take all of the one-on-one conversations that I have with entrepreneurs from the things I’ve learned and just write them up for anybody to read. This File this under entrepreneurial advice
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public. Why listen: Roger teaches you what he learned from a startup that spent $20 mil before closing.
Why listen: Premal teaches you how to launch an agile company quickly.
Why listen: Timothy teaches you to network with bloggers to 1. Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations
Why You’ll learn the trial and error that went into finding that golden idea.
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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
This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco 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’m not saying the companies were bad – many were not. But 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
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Friday, February 12, 2010
We started with our financial statements. We So I changed things up and became much happier with my results. Here 1. Set two strategic topics per board meeting and start with them – I bet most of you feel that you have pretty talented people around the table but you get stuck talking about the minutiae of your business. You But they were in a slide and people asked you questions so Like many of you I’ve sat through my fair share of Board Meetings over the past decade. For For the most part I’d call them Bored Meetings.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice . There are people who tell startups that they should hire the most senior people that they can find. It is tempting because you not only see that they were VP Sales at 3 other startups but also that they have great access (according to their resume) to senior executives at companies you’re trying to target. Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class
I’m not one of those.
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Monday, December 14, 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. wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by. For me I’ve stated publicly that 70% of my investment If you haven’t spent time over there you should.
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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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