Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 22, 2014
'It seems like everyone wants to be an entrepreneur and get rich these days. As a business mentor, I sometimes feel besieged by people begging for my view and support of their latest idea. In reality, I like most ideas, but I have to tell them that the real challenge is taking the inspiration from a dream to a business. All the evidence says that over 99% fail to make that leap.
Gust
MARCH 22, 2014
'There are some great answers here already (and there’s no way I’m going to try to top Terrence Yang ‘s magnum opus , so I will simply point you to a first-hand account of the challenges of VC fund-raising by Alan Patricof , the founder of Greycroft Partners. (Of course, this may not be quite a similar case to yours, as Alan happens to be one of the patriarchs of the venture capital industry, who in 1969 founded the firm that would become Apax Partners (which has raised
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The Next Web
MARCH 22, 2014
'George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. One of the first things that a venture capitalist looks for in assessing an investment opportunity is the revenue model of the business. More specifically, they are looking for the frequency of that revenue stream, and whether or not it is recurring and easily predictable.
SiliconHills
MARCH 22, 2014
'By AMY MCCULLOUGH Reporter with Silicon Hills News Aseem Ali was a carless freshman at the University of Texas at Austin living in an apartment complex. When he could work around friends’ schedules and borrow cars to get to the grocery store, he could get fresh food and produce. But due to the inconvenience, he […] The post Austin-based Startup Burpy Delivers appeared first on SiliconHills.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
Mike Michalowicz
MARCH 22, 2014
'Now was two words ago. Now has actually become four words back now. There it is again. Now passes so quickly. Don’t wait. Catch it now. (If you don’t, now becomes then.). The post Now Was Two Words Ago appeared first on Mike Michalowicz.
Scott Edward Walker
MARCH 22, 2014
'To Our Clients & Friends: Welcome to our weekly series “ Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed.” Each week, we post a short video of a successful entrepreneur, investor or business leader on a variety of topics. This week, we again present Steve Jobs in this brief, powerful clip for entrepreneurs. My favorite quote: “If you don’t love it, you’re going to fail.
Jeff Hilimire
MARCH 22, 2014
'I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the power of exposure. We settle into our routines in life and because of that comfortability, we aren’t exposed to enough new things. I realized the importance of this when I went through the Leadership Atlanta program in 2012/2013. That experience changed me forever. I now look at the world differently and have reshaped my vision of what personal success looks like.
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