Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Since your product or technology may still be in the early stages of development, the investor in actually investing in you, and your previous achievements, as much as your current startup. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

The simple answer is that if you need funding, do your homework early and completely. I seem to see common threads in the stories from people who don’t get money, so I checked my list against ones quoted in the classic book by Barry H. The resources are out there to help you, like the book mentioned, this blog, and many more.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders. Next week: the later stage founder answer (link won’t be live until 12/16/2021).

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VC Cafe

MAY 20, 2022

billion in investments into Israeli RetailTech during 2021 (180% more than in 2020) 46% of investment rounds were early stage, Pre-seed through A (Significant rebound from 39% in 2020) Shelf maintenance, store-associates management and cashierless payment represent 29% of investments. The crypto market according to the media.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. What does this mean for their early stage investors? Weak revenue architecture poses the greatest near-term risk of failure for most early stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.”

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. What does this mean for their early stage investors? Weak revenue architecture poses the greatest near-term risk of failure for most early stage startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Since your product or technology may still be in the early stages of development, the investor in actually investing in you, and your previous achievements, as much as your current startup. Expert in your chosen domain.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

Ethan discusses the new age of booking appointments with your clients. Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Our Guests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2019

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Image via Picpedia Everyone in the business world has heard of the old bestseller by Geoffrey A.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2024

Their latest book is – The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed. His newest book, I s the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?: Biggest Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still in the early stages of its development.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The book Regulatory Hacking calls this diagram the Power Map. How do you get your early customers to advocate on your behalf? The books The Fixer and Regulatory Hacking give examples of regulatory pitfalls, problems and suggested solutions.) Most early stage startups don’t have the regulatory domain expertise in-house.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

Books such as Steve Blank’s The Startup Owner’s Manual and Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup do a great job of exploring the challenges of the go-to – product phase, and identifying the importance of reaching product/market fit with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? While most of the time this just eats into my sleep schedule, sometimes I have great thoughts and work through a blockage that early. . RH: What show are you watching right now/what book are you reading right now? RH: Please introduce yourself.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 8, 2014

Community isat the center of what I do, from planning in-person events (rap cyphers, book clubs, happy hours) to creating online and scalable communities (rapt.fm,Product Hunt). The post The 7 (mostly free) tools Product Hunt used to build its early-stage community appeared first on The Next Web. Its our lifeblood.

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David Teten

APRIL 28, 2015

I read a few books over the spring/summer that I thought were worth highlighting/recommending (belatedly): The book that has had the most practical impact on my life was The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health , by John Durant. The book is surprising philosemitic. I converted her to using a standing desk !).

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It’s still in the very early stages there, but there is definitely an enthusiastic community to build on. On healthcare, we were inspired by Peter Attia ’s book on longevity called Outlive and invested in a startup that is working on democratizing preventative medicine.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. If there are venture capital history books, NextView will be a minor mention in the chapter about the 2011-2021 era. Then Doordash.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 26, 2021

I’ve always loved Brad’s Startup Communities – it’s long been my favorite of his books, built upon ideas that are clearly stating the test of time. He’s recently come out with a new version of the book , as well as a companion book called The Startup Community Way. They are outstanding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I just completed a new book on this challenge, “ Disrupt-It-Yourself ,” by Simone Bhan Ahuja, which includes a great summary of the required attributes to maximize your success potential in this area. Thinking and analysis without execution feels like zero cost to existing organizations, but it actually ignores the opportunity cost lost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you need to start early to implement the discipline and business practices that will lead to success. Even though everyone has an opinion on good early stage practices, I was impressed with the actionable blueprint in the classic book by Scott Duffy, “ Launch!

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View from Seed

JUNE 23, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? RH: What show are you watching right now/what book are you reading right now? And your least? DC: Favorite thing: Seeing your input turn into tangible output/progress. DC: Least favorite thing: Administrative work (e.g. Would you recommend it?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2020

Yet, especially in the early stages of your business, you will have to drive the whole of that process. As the bookstore CEO, you may see some cost-savings at scale—buying books in bulk, for example — but you are still on the hook for rent per store, employees per store, advertising per store, and so forth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2017

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Everyone in the business world has heard of the old bestseller by Geoffrey A. Moore titled “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs have no idea how it relates to them.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

It covers creations such as music, books, sculpture, paintings, and films. The right time for drafting a founders agreement is in the early stages of business. Maintain clean books. Clean accounting books help you plan and pay taxes accurately. Correctly classify your workers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

The evolution and the real value of curator are outlined in a great new book “ Curation Nation ,” by Steven Rosenbaum. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” Modern digital curators for early-stage entrepreneurs are the expert bloggers who put “content into context.” Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

I found many of these in the classic book “ Great From The Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success ,” by John B. Relevancy for an early-stage company is the discovery and understanding of the real addressable market for a product or service. Montgomery, which does a great job of laying out specifics.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

For those of us who’ve invested in early stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. According to the Angel Capital Association , at least 300,000 people have made angel investments in the last two years, totaling $24 billion in the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

The simple answer is that if you need funding, do your homework early and completely. I seem to see common threads in the stories from people who don’t get money, so I checked my list against ones quoted in a book by Barry H. The resources are out there to help you, like the book mentioned, this blog, and many more.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup. billion and its average bookings per DAU rose from $11.62 This confidence allowed her to say “ no ” to a brand if it is not a fit with the company’s values and strategy. million to 42.1 billion to 9.7

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 18, 2013

In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers. Everyone in the business world has heard of the old bestseller by Geoffrey A. Moore titled “ Crossing the Chasm ,” but most entrepreneurs have no idea how it relates to them.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CN: I generally enjoy all parts of being an early-stage founder, you’re all kinds of free and perhaps really naive, which is just a really great mindset for innovation. RH: What show are you watching right now/what book are you reading right now?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

As an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, I see a lot of dreams, but not so many business results. That’s why I’m impressed with the classic book, “ All Dreams on Deck: Charting the Course for Your Life and Work ,” by Jeremy Cage.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2012

But early-stage investor and entrepreneur Bred Feld, the co-founder of VC firms Mobius and Foundry, as well as startup accelerator TechStars , thinks trying to be Silicon Valley is a fool’s errand. In fact, buy a few copies and pass around to like-minded people like yourself. You may just build the next Silicon Valley yet.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Many key insights to success in any business can’t be learned from books or the Internet. Since your product or technology may still be in the early stages of development, the investor in actually investing in you, and your previous achievements, as much as your current startup. Expert in your chosen domain.

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