BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We are purpose-built to not only invest pre-product but also to help accelerate your path to product-market fit with our decades of entrepreneurial and investing experience along with our active CXO advisory board. Watch for startups solving this problem with a focus on observability, reliability, security and automation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2017

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra that you can’t quite put your finger on, like Ryan Seacrest is searching for on American Idol. These moments are always being transformed into options to be explored.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

By Ingrid Vanderveldt, Dell’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence. It’s the paradox of the modern startup. Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2012

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor , that you can’t quite put your finger on. These moments are always being transformed into options to be explored.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2011

Actually, according to Paul Graham , “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ Most Startups Get No Professional Investor Cash ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative #6.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

To be successful as an entrepreneur, you don’t have to be a fabulous person, but it helps. Some people, and some entrepreneurs, have that something extra, like Simon Cowell is searching for on the X-Factor , that you can’t quite put your finger on. These moments are always being transformed into options to be explored.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Actually, according to Paul Graham , “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative #6.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2017

Actually, according to Paul Graham of Y-Combinator fame, “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. Angels are typically high net worth individuals who are investing their own money, for a wide range of motives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2010

Actually, according to Paul Graham , “Raising money is the second hardest part of starting a startup. More startups may fail for that reason, but a close second is the difficulty of raising money. A while back, I outlined “ Ten Top Funding Sources for Startups ” for startups, listing angel investors as alternative #6.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Take This Week in Startups , for example. Their podcast is all about discussing the startup news that matters. All companies that This Week in Startups’ audience of entrepreneurs, company founders, and marketers would be interested in. Among their sponsors, you’ll see names like LinkedIn, Fiverr, and Notion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Establish a customer advisory board. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

But it is difficult to ask, and that’s one of the things that, as an entrepreneur, you have to sort of get over the hurdle that you have to get over. All these organizations and stuff, where people are obviously at a net loss in time and money for pretty much any organization in town that you send people to, why are they doing that?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 23, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. Is it possible that with this technology, future buildings could attain zero net energy consumption? Credit: UbiQD, Inc.

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www.davidgcohen.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

s the second of my series of posts on my top twelve startup tips from TechStars this summer. Most first-time entrepreneurs that I know only seek out mentors for their companies when they decide they want funding. Great mentors need to be weaved into the fabric of any startup from the beginning. It should be obvious. Start there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Only the under-35 age group need apply. I will argue that times have changed, and you better take another look.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Every entrepreneur I meet in my role as a small business advisor dreams of making the business run like clockwork, even without them. Frankly, I’ve never been sure what to tell entrepreneurs who want to break free of these bonds. There is no time for fun, and vacations never happen. The final big hurdle to overcome is you.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

is vital to our startup ecosystem here. And I hope these lessons have an impact beyond Austin angels and startups as well. We are in 62 startups and 19 VC funds now ( our portfolio ), and I have some good data at this point on how profitable our endeavors have been, so I feel pretty qualified to share these lessons with you.

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Gust

DECEMBER 31, 2012

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. Richard Branson image via Wikipedia. Only the under-35 age group need apply. Interim executive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. of startup businesses as far back as 2005. So what are some ideal roles for a Boomer relative to your startup?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

I like writing longer posts but I’m spending over 70 hours per week on data.world and then some time on our startup investments?—?and As a matter of fact, in 2017 I resigned from two non-profit Boards (Conscious Capitalism and Entrepreneurs Foundation) that I really love just to create more time for data.world. agrees with me.

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