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. Most successful entrepreneurs take only a very minimum salary during the formative business years and reinvest all profits back into the business for organic growth. Practice living on a shoestring budget.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

An anonymous tech entrepreneur—who at his height in the startup world “hit the top of TechCrunch” and landed a prestigious spot in a startup accelerator—has predicted the demise of his fledgling business, and is blogging the collapse as it happens. We listened to our investors. Still, I had this nagging feeling eating away at me.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Professor VC

JUNE 7, 2018

I taught a class yesterday afternoon to a group of 25 Italian executives, managers, and entrepreneurs participating in the TVLP Institute of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation. I am a strong believer in the new school of entrepreneurship education (lean startup, customer discovery, etc.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. I am a young entrepreneur here, absolutely dying to hear the talk. You already have the hockey stick and exponential growth. We’ve been inspired by Steve Blank and the Customer Development / lean startup model.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2023

Laura is a copywriting expert who helps entrepreneurs find the perfect words to express and sell what they do in a way that gets them paid to be themselves. Because this isn't a business book necessarily, but frankly what you talk about in this book, every entrepreneur goes through , you know, at some point.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I actually use LivePlan and I mentor entrepreneurs all over the world. I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. As an entrepreneur I would say 50/50. This is my biggest thing really, is having solid mentors. This is also called the traction slide.

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