Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

I originally conceived it as the Top 11 things that I believe “all entrepreneurs need to succeed.&# If it stuck to this theme then I would stand by my top 11. I’ll publish the final post in this series this week and then move on to my next series – sales & marketing. It will be controversial – I know.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. The market had tanked. tl;dr summary.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

House of Representatives’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets (Committee on Financial Services) hearing on “Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and the Need for Investor Protections” May 2021. IPO market. In the first quarter of 2021 alone, SPACs raised $87.9

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

But sometimes circumstances align and a budding entrepreneur just knows that the time is right to make the leap. We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.” million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. And they’re happy they did it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” When I was raising money for my first company we had closed a seed round in 1999 and were working on our A round. We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. A few months later the public markets for Internet stocks turned around and we closed a $330 million fund which ended up doing extremely well.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Public Relations & Focus – [link]. The Entrepreneur’s Handbook: 101 Resources for First Time Entrepreneurs – [link]. Marketing Is Dead.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Out of necessity. After thinking about how much I enjoyed helping her business grow and learning all I could about business structure, marketing, SEO and social media to name a few, I decided to take these new skills and help other small business owners.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Empower Your Small Business: 4 keys to success, 2014 trends, content marketing – crowdspring.co/19PV71E. 11 Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Be Able to Answer - crowdspring.co/19IMztu.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We also like the humorous element of the name, an element that we’ve carried over to the imagery that we use on our website and marketing materials (a cartoon plunger is our mascot!), – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing). which also reflects our fun personality. so much the better.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner – [link]. 4 Pieces Of Practical Advice for Women Entrepreneurs – [link]. Market – [link]. – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. True story.) million were enormous.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2020

As an entrepreneur mentor and startup investor, I see with sadness the 50 to 90 percent that fail. This fallacy, often called historical myopia, essentially involves extrapolating only from recent positive events, and ignoring the reality that markets saturate or evaporate. Failing to adapt to tectonic shifts in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

I was reading an old article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

In the old days, every entrepreneur planned on taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. Violent market swings usually hit public companies first.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2018

If you own a small business, you should know that internet marketing is essential to your company’s success. There are so many great marketing strategies out there, like SEO, Local SEO, PPC ads, and more. When customers enter that fence, you’re able to market to them and send them messages. Location-Based Marketing tool.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

They run the gamut from affiliate marketing to startup conferences with virtually everything in between. A single track conference with a maximum cap of 400 attendees offers an intimate, collaborative environment where founders and entrepreneurs can get to know one another. Content Marketing World. Boston, USA. Cleveland, USA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

If you are an entrepreneur not using this model, it may be time to consider a pivot. It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other. All-you-can-eat content model.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. The ingredients used are all human grade, and we strive to use organic and local farmer’s market/CSA ingredients when possible. I started a career in real estate in 2008 (when the market was crashing).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire. Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report. Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. We want a strong balance sheet (um, ok.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Get your product/market fit working before you ramp up your costs (or raise too much money). Entrepreneurs always walk away with new relationships, knowledge, deal discussions and enthusiasm. And it’s his mantra for successful entrepreneurs, “you need to be extremely focused on the details.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 10, 2012

When I started my first tech company in 1999 I had pretty good tech chops and had led teams but had very little exposure to many other things that matter in a startup including sales, marketing & business development. Getting an office in a tight real estate market. Like most first-timers, I learned the hard way.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One of our core tasks was “market analysis,&# which consistent of: market sizing, market forecasts, competitive analysis and then instructing customers on which direction to take. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. And then they market the F out of that result.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2020

If you are an entrepreneur not using this model, it may be time to consider a pivot. It works best in a tightly defined niche market, like antique car owners, or rare-coin junkies, or woodworking enthusiasts, where experts hare hard to find, and members can gain from interacting with each other. All-you-can-eat content model.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

My passion is building and marketing web products for niche audiences. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. In 2012 we launched the Web.Search.Social service line to help small and medium sized businesses make the most of web, search and social marketing.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed. This leads to the problem of “herding cats&# for entrepreneurs raising angel money. Markets always evolve toward higher resolution.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2020

The company was founded back in 2015 by 3 entrepreneurs who are looking to help small business owners incorporate. Legalzoom is one of the best known incorporation services out on the market. They opened their business doors back in 1999, making them one of the most experienced online legal formation services in the industry.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Then I realized what that qualifies me to be: an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs have to wear a hundred different hats, be good at dozens of skills. I believe this stems from the combination of an increasingly niched job market and stagnant inflation-adjusted wages. I was a developer. Thanks to Marcus Miller, Bowler Hat. #9

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Personally, Entrepreneurs fascinate me…. Targeting entrepreneurs who are at the “Start-up to Scale-up” sector. Everything she does is with authenticity, from how she communicates to her market, to how she manages her staff. The other common mistake is that they use a best guess marketing strategy. 5 Stars Irene!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Due to competitive markets we ended up with a pretty good term sheet until we needed to raise money in April 2001 and then we got completely screwed. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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