Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2017

If you are proposing a merger or acquisition, or simply seeking an investor for your business, the process is the same. This may seem intuitively obvious, but as an angel investor, I have heard hundreds of new business pitches that focus heavily on the product, but don’t tell the rest of the story.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2019

Opportunities and threats: Are there any entrepreneur opportunities or resources offered by the government or local bodies? Out of gratitude, those 500 customers continue coming to you every day for the rest of their lives. Attend events to scout for any opportunities of vertical and horizontal mergers and tie-ups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. What you don’t realize is these famous investors only deal with entrepreneurs who sold their last company for a $100M dollars or more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Funding requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Funding requirements.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Along with the rest of British industry, the pharmaceutical sector was under going massive re-organization and mergers creating much of today’s big pharma in the process. Our goal is to help would-be scientist/entrepreneurs translate their ideas and research in synthetic biology into the marketplace. The Foundry.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. This part of the story is told in both Stealing MySpace and in the “ Background of the Merger ” section of the merger proxy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But why don’t you start by kind of giving a little bit of background on you and your journey as an entrepreneur and maybe tell us a little about your work. John Jantsch: So since you’re having so much fun, what’s the hard part about doing what you’re doing as an entrepreneur in your view? Jack McGuinness: Sure.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Funding requirements.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. The story of each business is as unique as the products they created. Time Magazine.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Part of my problem was that my reality distortion field encompassed my relationships. While she stuck it out for seven years, she had no connection to the passion and excitement that was driving me; all she saw was a tired and stressed entrepreneur when I got home. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Many entrepreneurs scare away potential investors by claiming that their technology represents “truly disruptive technology.” It always amazes me how an entrepreneur can define his market opportunity so broadly, and then assess his competition so narrowly in the next breath. Funding requirements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

Jake Perlman-Garr of Datavore points out that this helps facilitate both the auditing and tweaking of forecasts, and also helps a potential investor understand better what the entrepreneur thinks are the important drivers of their business. 11) Separate out your model output.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Companies like that tend to be great M&A (merger and acquisition) targets, as you cannot repeat it by throwing money or a team as it’ll take time. For example, most of the games in the Western market mainly let you play one to three chapters, then you would have to pay to unlock the rest of it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

When Steve left AOL he wanted to be very involved with the next generation of entrepreneurs. It allows him the opportunity to do what he does best, finding and motivating entrepreneurs then thinking through market strategy. You had a very interesting perspective on the AOL/Time Warner merger. Can you talk about it?

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about how they came up with a business name, and here are their responses. #1- Since it's a very competitive and unforgiving industry, a name that would set us apart from the rest felt fundamental. Having a brand behind a strong title can make all the difference in the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yet crowdfunding is no panacea for hungry entrepreneurs and startups. According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. In fact, there are many types of crowdfunding, including donations, reward, pre-orders, loans, and equity.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

You have to teach entrepreneurs how to fish rather than serving dinner for them. Those were the messages from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. — Teaching entrepreneurs how to fish. And wishing you had asked for help much earlier in a startup. Frank Rimalovski.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. As NBC (founding shareholder at Hulu) and Comcast complete their merger I suspect the pressure on and control of Hulu will be even firmer. The Road Ahead?

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. So what does this all mean.

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. ” “Our intent is to roll up our sleeves and help entrepreneurs take their early-stage prototypes to scalable products,” said Rahul Sood, the general manager of the Bing Fund, in an interview with VentureBeat yesterday. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2011

Forbes in 1917, and while he remained heavily involved with the publication for the rest of his life, he gave top positions to his oldest sons, Malcolm Forbes and Bruce Charles Forbes. The magazine was founded by B.C. Ally Hilfiger.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Sunil contacted me asking if he could apply to become a columnist on Entrepreneurs-Journey. I asked him what are the highlights of his “career&# as an entrepreneur so I could be confident in his credibility and he had stories to tell that we could all learn from. It turns out Sunil has done a few things.

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