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7 Attributes of An Entrepreneur's Startup Dream Team

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors look for “street smarts,” or examples that didn’t come from a school book or a corporate process. Investors are wary of “equal partners,” who may jeopardize a timely decision. Startup leaders have to be relentlessly resourceful in overcoming obstacles and competition. Not afraid to make a decision.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 of the company.

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[Review] No Fear: Business Leadership In The Age Of Digital Cowboys

YoungUpstarts

The digital native, a term first coined by Marc Prensky in his seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants in 2001 (and later a book called – Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning “), is today known by many names. To find out more about you can join the No Fear Community here.

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Be Careful not to be Penny Wise, Pound Foolish

Both Sides of the Table

I had come from a world where I was nearly a partner at Accenture before starting my first company. We went “nuclear&# and slimmed down to 33 people (yes, I know, still large by today’s standards but this was 2001), raised $10 million and we built a real company. It isn’t always necessary but it’s a mindset.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. Jonathan Siddharth . David Zhang.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” He also wrote this excellent book on the Venture Capital industry that I highly recommend ? each with partners as the lead.

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Pre-Order Startup CEO, The Newest Startup Revolution Book

Feld Thoughts

Pre-orders for the new book Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business by Matt Blumberg, CEO of Return Path, are available now on Amazon. I’ve worked with Matt since 2001 when I joined Fred Wilson and Greg Sands on the board of Return Path. The book is broken up into five parts: Part I: Storytelling.

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