Startup Professionals Musings

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6 Obligations That Come With Startup External Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Angel and venture capital money always comes with ownership and management implications, starting with the obvious ones outlined in the term sheet for the deal. In any case, your startup is now part of some investor’s portfolio, so you need to treat the situation like reporting to a new boss, and not like a new freedom.

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8 Strategies to Thrive in a Constantly Changing World

Startup Professionals Musings

I believe that that by adopting a more positive change mindset , you can actually make surfing the waves of change much more manageable, and even make your business and career fun again. Rethink your career as an evolving portfolio of jobs.

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5 Entrepreneurship Challenges You Should Not Overlook

Startup Professionals Musings

Larger enterprises are always sending their “high fliers” to leadership refreshers, new technology updates, and training on employee performance management. Personal wealth management. Their business is their entire portfolio. They are at the mercy of innumerable catastrophes, making this a huge risk.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

It boasts 595 member-managed groups and VCs, 30,203 investors, and 2,900 new company applications a month. These groups represent more than 6,500 angels and are funding approximately 800 new companies each year and managing an ongoing portfolio of more than 5,000 companies throughout North America.

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5 Steps To Locking In The Right New Venture Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

Johansen knows this space, as a distinguished fellow at the Institute for the Future in Silicon Valley, and Ronn is a serial entrepreneur and managing director of Innovation Portfolio Partners in Palo Alto.

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Should You Negotiate Ownership Options In A Startup?

Startup Professionals Musings

7% Product Manager,2 -.3% At best, you should view stock as “deferred compensation” or a “bonus,” which has no value today, and a risk for the future that is much higher than mutual funds, or a conventional balanced public stock portfolio. Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7%

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6 Secrets To Making Your Pitch To Investors Stand Out

Startup Professionals Musings

He shares his insights from three decades in business, growing billion-dollar portfolios, and managing thousands of people. I found some excellent specifics on the magic of storytelling in a classic book, “ The Compass Solution: A Guide to Winning Your Career ,” by Tim Cole.