Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. This time, Im discussing the challenge for corporate CFOs and VCs alike in holding entrepreneurs accountable. Read the rest here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Most of the times I have seen pitches fail, it is not because they are poorly written, or that the entrepreneur lacks passion. How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

My conclusion was that I should have realized that the first person who pitched me on Airbnb wasn’t a great consumer internet investor, which means I should have realized that he might not describe the opportunity accurately. (This experience led me to update my investing playbook. Clearly I had made a mistake.

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