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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #16: The importance of reference checking

Austin Startup

you better make sure you really check their references. I made very few edits to the original post, mostly in the area of readability and grammar (not in substance of content): I’m shocked that more startups, including their Boards and investors, don’t thoroughly check references. and dangerous. We all have them?—?no

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7 Steps To A New Business From An Innovative Solution

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Focus on collecting customer references.

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7 Keys To Making A Business Out Of Your Great Product

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why investors acknowledge that two co-founders are often better than one -- with one focusing on the technical solution, and the other focusing on defining and building the business model. The founder had simply not done the work to validate a price and customer segment. Focus on collecting customer references.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. Please consider this article an ongoing reference for capital sources in Austin as we intend to keep it updated as we learn new relevant information.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . For your reference, here is our current deck (link).”

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IoT: Bridging the Performance Promise Gap – Female Founder Series

The Startup Magazine

As part of our ongoing Female Founders series , The Startup Magazine asked Terry Foudray, CEO and co-founder of IoT solutions provider, RUMBLE, for her views on the continued digitization of our physical world. She is a strong STEM advocate and an active member of the advisory board for CompTIA ’s Advisory Council.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

Financial leverage refers to investing that is supplemented by borrowed money. Similarly, product development leverage refers to situations in which our own work is fortified by the work of outsiders. Technical debt only refers to the latter. Technical > debt only refers to the latter. Those are product questions.