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Friday, March 19, 2010
Our Insights and Opinions piece this morning is from Dan Bliss , co-founder of Los Angeles-based Perfect Business , an online site focused on entrepreneurship and startups.
Whether you want to start a new business or buy an existing business, you need to be passionate about it. Even if you get the business up and running, your lack of passion will be noticeable by your customers.
This is my mantra. Passion is the core from which everything builds.
If
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
I started out as screenwriter, went into local television, ran ad sales in the west for AOL and joined Facebook in the companies very early days. My management book, Ignited, was released in 2007 and serves a guide and champion for middle managers. Today I lead a small consultancy that helps advertising supported develop and scale the revenue producing sides of their businesses. With that as a start it rarely feels burdensome. More Visible Networking? this time with Vince Thompson. You’ve got a REALLY diverse background.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
So, we came up with a name that was broader, and more than about CFX chemistry. We came up with Contour Energy, with a tag line of Reshaping Portable Power. Thankfully, because of Caltech and CRNS--the Center for National Research and Science, where the work was done, we have been able to take a look beyond lithium, where there are lots of players, where the chemistry was developed and led by the Japanese, and now the Koreans, and lots of startups in the U.S. Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Would 8221; The problem is that you’re opening yourself up to a claim by one of these people that you somehow stole their ideas. I 8221; If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here .
In the Beginning …
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Friday, August 28, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons
I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We We hadn’t even thought about having a customer support line or who would staff it. Our Our customers were generally happy but they were pushing us hard for promised features. Our Building companies is hard work. I We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded.
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009
This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons ”
Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation
know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many.
When you start your company the very first question you need to ask yourself is which Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. This This is the only mistake I repeated twice and it is a mistake that I see many, many companies make.
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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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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, January 31, 2010
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 employees, customers and VCs.
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 Most people suck at presenting to big groups. It’s This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. In many cases, I can break it down into: Customer Acquisition Cost – how will you reach prospects, how This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company.
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Sunday, October 4, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice . Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. But through nearly I know I didn’t. 1.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
It’s the person who never gives up – who never accepts “no” for an answer. If you’re already running a startup you know all this. But some founders have that extra quality that makes them never give up. Your customers don’t care that you went to Stanford, Harvard 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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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. 8221; They know instinctually how customers 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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