Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

A few years ago I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Take little to no net profit. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2018

The success of luxury online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter and its merger with Yoox, as well as the increased visibility of platforms like Farfetch and the like, have proved them wrong. Florine has over 10 years of experience in marketing and luxury across Europe and Asia and is an award-winning digital entrepreneur and author.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are you an emerging entrepreneur with an underfunded venture? Beware—detailing plans to engage in mergers or acquisitions with unspecified companies disqualifies your business from offering or selling crowdfunding securities. Could your business flourish with a gush of money and hype? You just need to specify one.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

I grew to understand this approach much more when I interviewed a popular serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen a while back, who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Take little to no net profit. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Last year I interviewed a serial entrepreneur, Rich Christiansen , who has done almost 30 businesses wholly by bootstrapping. Take little to no net profit. As soon as you bring in investors, they force you to plan for an exit (merger or sale) in three to five years. Tags: entrepreneur bootstrap founder business.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 30, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you may just find what I have to say enlightening and helpful! Those include preparing financial statements that are used to report to investors or even those given to the IRS for the sake of mergers. They do have their place in the business world. Not by a long shot! Putting Yourself Last.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Part of my problem was that my reality distortion field encompassed my relationships. While she stuck it out for seven years, she had no connection to the passion and excitement that was driving me; all she saw was a tired and stressed entrepreneur when I got home. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

Jake Perlman-Garr of Datavore points out that this helps facilitate both the auditing and tweaking of forecasts, and also helps a potential investor understand better what the entrepreneur thinks are the important drivers of their business. 11) Separate out your model output. 17) Include a sensitivity analysis.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2022

The word solopreneur is a combination of two terms solo and entrepreneur. What is an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is a businessperson who organizes and operates a business venture bearing most of the financial risk. This means that entrepreneurs don’t necessarily have to be skilled in the area of their investment.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Fund an entrepreneur you know and trust. Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

They had clearly done a net acquisition cost analysis on a per customer basis and decided that they were getting a good deal buying essentially 1,500 customers for $250,000. Because company B bought A, it can now deduct company A’s carry forward losses of $20M from its current year income of $40M, arriving at a net profit of only $20M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

merger or acquisition). I hope you’ve enjoyed reading thus far and would love to hear from entrepreneurs or investors with any questions or comments. In most VC and angel financing transactions, there are three pieces to this puzzle: (1) the Company requires investors to make certain representations in the purchase agreement (e.g.,

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