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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.
Sometimes they’re working full time at a company or sometimes they’ve already left their employer and they’re bouncing around ideas with friends. These 8221; If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here .
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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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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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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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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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Monday, December 14, 2009
For me I’ve stated publicly that 70% of my investment decision is the team and most of this is skewed toward the founders. I’ve watched people who went to the top schools, got the best grades and worked for all the right companies flame out.
This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about.
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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Monday, September 7, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. 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.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute: Tenacity .
Street Smarts - OK, so you’re a tenacious person – you never give up. Well obviously that’s meaningless if your startup idea sucks. I don’t think it takes book smart 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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Tuesday, January 5, 2010
started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I Great companies are comprised of great individual point people or functional leaders.
But when I’m looking to write my check I need to look in the eyes of the captain — the maestro who brings the whole orchestra together .
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
Now there are some firms that have strict rules about not funding pre-revenue companies – that’s different. 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 same time so that you can quickly raise money and get back to the job of building a business.
This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC” – the outline is here .
You’ve pitched several angels
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