Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 26, 2022
One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 7, 2013
By Ingrid Vanderveldt, Dell’s Entrepreneur-in-Residence. With new crowdsourced fundraising operations like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo , entrepreneurs are finding that they might be able to rely on the kindness of thousands of strangers who are willing to invest in their ideas. It’s the paradox of the modern startup.
thebarefootvc
AUGUST 13, 2013
Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete. Fast forward to 2013.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 7, 2017
Many entrepreneurs start with their product, their solution, without deeply understanding the customer problem, from the customer perspective. I have found that the best ideas come from entrepreneurs with this magic combination of specialized knowledge, passion, and customer need. First, build an advisory board.
Austin Startup
DECEMBER 29, 2018
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.
Austin Startup
MARCH 31, 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.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
267 
Let's personalize your content