Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically. Marketing is done in fits and starts.

Advisory Board 240

Advisory Board Forecast Early Stage Product Development 240

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically. Marketing is done in fits and starts.

Advisory Board 232

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 232

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2010

Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically. Marketing is done in fits and starts.

Advisory Board 125

Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 125

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. The State of Flexible VC. Early liquidity.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Even startups that are dominated by technical risk have the customer validation risk of finding positive ROI distribution in a large market. Let’s not let startups use this as an escape hatch to avoid customer development. Almost all Web startups are dominated by market risk. ““What’s the “Market Type” of your startup?&#

Customer Development 219

Customer Development Web Developer Customer 219

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Board of Directors and Advisory Board. Board Member 1. Equity for Founders. Responsibilities 6 0 0 6 36.

Equity 62

Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62