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Monday, August 17, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. ” often talk with entrepreneurs who are kicking around their next idea. Sometimes Imagine you pour 5 years of your life into your next gig and it starts to become successful. Would In some countries outside the US (the UK for example) employers can specify 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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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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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. So what skills does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? If you haven’t spent time over there you should.
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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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Monday, January 25, 2010
If you don’t already read Chris’s blog you should – it’s very well written, often takes a strong POV and speaks from an entrepreneur’s perspective but with a huge knowledge of the technology investors as well. He Start by defining the problem you’re solving – I see way too many early-stage entrepreneurs who start their companies with a product definition rather than a market problem. You Chris Dixon wrote a blog post last week titled, “ Techies and Normals ” in which he defined “Techies” as people who are not just “early adopters” but also have more of a geeky, technical, product bent. Normals
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Thursday, December 17, 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 . I I also wonder about the entrepreneur who would sign a term sheet that came from If you haven’t spent time over there you should.
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Monday, December 21, 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 of an entrepreneur : Tenacity . I When looking for great entrepreneurs for me it’s If you haven’t spent time over there you should.
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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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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. I know I didn’t. But through nearly a decade of startups I learned that sales comes down to three essential elements:
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
of all statistics are made up. I started my life as a consultant. Fortunately I had to read each report, synthesis it and then come up with our best estimate of the markets going forward. In They had come up with a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) that was 3% higher that the other report, which in a few years makes a huge difference. I How to Interpret Analyst Reports
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