Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

An experienced Board can give them credibility, as well as advice on the many pitfalls of starting a new company. Especially if you are a first-time business owner, the payback for this initiative is well worth the effort and cost. Board members provide inexpensive expertise. Key board members multiply your networking efforts.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This “whole of government approach” is known by the acronym DIME -FIL. INTERACTIVE CHART “ Average Cost of Hard Drive Storage per Gigabyte 1980-2014” Human Progress. the government is painfully learning how to reorient its requirements and acquisition process to buy these commercial, off-the-shelf technologies. In the U.S.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2021

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. Too many members are difficult to schedule and manage, and cost too much. Less than three is not a board. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

Projected enrollment growth and market demand can also be tricky to estimate. Write about the market and how you’re fulfilling demand. Will you offer discounts, or accept government-subsidized or reduced payments from lower-income parents? Another thing to watch out for with monthly rent is all the added costs.

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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. ABM/Demand Gen), Richard Crowley (Slack, Ops Architect), Misha Brukman (JanusGraph, co-founder).

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. That said, nothing is cost-free. More complex cost of capital calculation. Inversely, if the company has slower than predicted growth, the effective cost of capital is automatically lowered.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2016

Most entrepreneurs avoid setting up a board of directors for their new business unless or until they sign up an investor who demands a seat on the board. Too many members are difficult to schedule and manage, and cost too much. Less than three is not a board. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.

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