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Taking Other People’s Money Changes Your Life

Startup Professionals Musings

Taking other people’s money to fund your startup changes your life in ways you cannot predict. No matter how they couch it, they are asking for money. To someone laboring in a cash-strapped startup, money often seems to be the endgame. But there are some things that DEFINITELY come with other people’s money.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I have often thought that creative endeavors where one has a quick turn-around between idea and realization of one’s work as one of the more fulfilling experiences in life. There was no money train. We wanted new things to exist and to solve new problems and to see our creations come to life. It was 1991. People were building.

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8 Keys To Personal Self-Fulfillment In Your Business

Startup Professionals Musings

As a long-time mentor to new entrepreneurs and business owners, I have noticed that many no longer associate more fulfillment and satisfaction with more money, power, and success. For most people, a truly fulfilled life means active pursuit and high engagement in pursuing your own goals. Celebrate each step of progress along the way.

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10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting

Startup Professionals Musings

If you start by pitching your extended life story, that’s the wrong point. How much money do you need, and what percent of your company are you willing give up for that amount? The biggest complaint I hear from fellow investors is that startup founders often talk way too long, and neglect to cover the most relevant points.

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10 Keys To Building A Business Image To Be Remembered

Startup Professionals Musings

They realize too late that they don’t really want to be remembered for how many hours they spent on airplanes, how many emails they produced, or even how much money they made for the business. When we factor in our aspirations to guide us, we begin to connect to what really gives us value in life. What have you done for others?

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In a Crisis – An Opportunity For A More Meaningful Life

Steve Blank

In this case, to reassess one’s life and ask: How do I want to use my time when the world recovers? News sources for Digital Health and Life Sciences are different from software/hardware blogs such as Hacker News, TechCrunch, etc. Xconomy – news and trends in life science. Am I living the life I really wanted?

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5 Unfair Advantages To Help You Succeed In Business

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the things I’ve learned over my years as a business mentor and investor is that life isn’t fair when it comes to succeeding in business. Here are the key elements of the strengths framework they have developed, with my own insights and experience added for your consideration: Money: the capital you have, or can easily raise.