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5 Reasons To Enlist Outside Advisors For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Especially if you are a first-time business owner, the payback for this initiative is well worth the effort and cost. Unfortunately, I see too many new entrepreneurs who let their passion for a new idea or invention blind them to the stark realities of customer need, opportunity size, or pricing and cost implications.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin. > 36,000 public channels . > First off, a quick reminder on what Lightning is and how it works. > 14,000 public nodes . >

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Organic Growth Startups Won’t Scale Competitively

Startup Professionals Musings

This initial focus is usually driven by limited financial and people resources, as well as the bandwidth of the executive team. These relationships need not require cash investments; often they are done with exchanges of equity or assets. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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Entrepreneurs Need New Growth Models To Scale Up

Startup Professionals Musings

This initial focus is usually driven by limited financial and people resources, as well as the bandwidth of the executive team. These relationships need not require cash investments; often they are done with exchanges of equity or assets. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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Explore Non-Standard Ways to Grow Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

This initial focus is usually driven by limited financial and people resources, as well as the bandwidth of the executive team. These relationships need not require cash investments; often they are done with exchanges of equity or assets. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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Startups Should Fuel Growth By Acquisitions

Startup Professionals Musings

This initial focus is usually driven by limited financial and people resources, as well as the bandwidth of the executive team. These relationships need not require cash investments; often they are done with exchanges of equity or assets. An example of a startup which used non-organic growth early and effectively was Microsoft.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants.

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