Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2022

Every startup lucky enough to get some traction gets to the point where they decide to hire some “regular employees” for sales, marketing, and administrative tasks. Most people will tell you this is impossible, but I found a classic book, “ Army of Entrepreneurs ,” by Jennifer Prosek, where she seems to have actually accomplished this.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 24, 2020

As a frequent advisor to new entrepreneurs and startups, I often hear your frustration with being treated differently from other startups by investors, on expectations for valuation , traction, and market size. For many years, startups featuring all-electric vehicles fell into this stage of the business lifecycle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2020

Otherwise, in my experience, the startup will fail. The importance and the specifics of practical team leadership were re-confirmed to me a while back in the classic book, “ Unlocked ,” by Robert S. The only real alternative is to find a co-founder who can build and lead the team, while you focus on the product.

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VC Cafe

MAY 17, 2023

billion acquisition by Google for Waze and $900M Moovit acquisition by Intel) Uri has also been involved in various startups, especially on the consumer front, as an angel investor. The book is a practical guide for founders on what it takes to build a successful business. It starts from how founders pitch their startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

I recently found the classic sales training book “ Bootstrap Selling The Sandler Way ,” by Bill Morrison, who has 20 years in sales leadership roles, and I was amazed at how many of his sales lessons are great lessons for new entrepreneurs as well. That mentality has to be part of the culture of every startup team member from the start.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

It is true that founding a startup in times of crisis may look more challenging. However, a crisis can also be a golden opportunity to launch a new product or service, as long as the startup at the origin applies specific methods. It can help startups stretch their resources further and achieve a more significant impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2021

Many startups fail before reaching that magic “cash-flow positive” position they have been striving for, despite seemingly reasonable financial projections. Many startups see initial revenue from customers, and love the fast growth, but fail to anticipate the cost of early vendor payments, monthly overhead costs, and later taxes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2020

Entrepreneurs inherently understand that they have to be the initial leader of their startup, but often they don’t have the experience or the training to know where their leadership competencies lie, or how to build a leadership team.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 15, 2022

The 2nd Edition of my book Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors launched today. While the 1st Edition was a good book, I wasn’t particularly proud of it because I didn’t feel like it was my best writing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2023

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. In reality, I’m one of the majority of investors who believe that startup success is more about the execution than the idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I just finished a new book for entrepreneurs, “ Secrets to a Successful Startup ,” by Trevor Blake, which makes the same points, based on his own real-life experience with three successful startups. Outsourcing can give your startup a more mature image. Startups all need that flexibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

A complete list of book tour stops for the first leg of my journey is below. Many of you who pre-ordered the book -especially those of you on Kindle- have already received your copy. The Amazon.com reviews page for the book has just opened to the general public (up until now it's been limited to Amazon Vine reviewers).

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

When your business, book or podcast needs additional support, sponsorship can make a huge difference. Regardless of whether you’re seeking sponsorship for a product, event, book, or podcast, the overarching aim of attracting corporate sponsors remains the same: you need sponsors that engage your audience.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The Startup Magazine recently caught up with teen author Alex Jimenez, 14, of Chicago, USA, a first-time author who launched his new book, “The Big Idea” by Fig Factor Media Publishing. This book applies to anyone who wants to know the basics of business and thinks of becoming and entrepreneur. TSM: Hi Alex.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. When I saw the outline for Startup CXO, I grinned a wry smile.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2021

If your accounting processes aren’t in order, you may not have a complete picture of your startup’s financial health and could be leaving money on the table. To avoid these common pitfalls — and set up your finances to support your business as it grows — follow these four accounting tips for startups and small businesses.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

As fall replaces summer, I know I become tempted to curl up with a window view of the falling leaves, a cup of tea, and a good book. When that happens, I like to turn to books that are not only engaging, well-written, and interesting, but also happen to be about business. It’s a great way to enjoy some “me time.”.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Recently, my friend Ross Baird came out with a new book, The Innovation Blind Spot. In the book, Ross outlines and diagnoses a problem that I’ve been exploring for over a decade: our innovation economy neglects many people and ideas. I’ve been thinking about ways to design startup communities to be more inclusive.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 28, 2016

He has a vision and the experience to create a non-partisan organization to engage and educate people, especially policymakers in government, regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and startups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. It’s a great book that every policy maker in government at any level should read.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 19, 2010

If you are looking for some books on entrepreneurship to read, or even to gift, here are some recommended books from 2010. There were a number of great business books published this year, many of which we reviewed here as part of ReadWriteWeb's " Weekend Reading " series. You can read an excerpt of the title chapter here.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 26, 2023

Chris Heivly released Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder’s Field Guide. I encourage you to get Chris’s book if you are a startup community builder or are interested in startup communities. Chris became an extensive thought partner with Ian, and we eventually decided to write two books.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2016

If you are a looking for an awesome sci-fi book to read, download Cumulus by Eliot Peper right now. He was the first author that FG Press published and I wrote about getting to know Eliot in my post about his first book Uncommon Stock 1.0 The post Book: Cumulus appeared first on Feld Thoughts. I’m super proud of Eliot.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since Matt Levine is so effectively covering anything interesting in the world of the Twitter deal (and all kinds of bizarre, random, and complicated crypto, fraud, debt, and other financial stuff), I think I’ll stick with book reviews for the time being. Both are remarkably brave books.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2016

Eliot’s last book Cumulus was published a few weeks ago and has gotten awesome reviews. I first met Eliot several years ago when he emailed me a few chapters of the first book he was working on about a fictional tech startup in Boulder. His writing has matured with each book and he totally nails it at all levels.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2020

If you are working on your first startup, this is the book for you. Hopefully, the Foreword I wrote reflects my belief in the quality and importance of this book. My friends @willherman and @rajatbhargava put their hearts and souls into the creation of the first edition of The Startup Playbook, and it paid off.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 2, 2024

After New York-based The Cru acquired the Mentor Method in September of 2022, Joseph Kopser suggested that Janice Omadeke write a book about mentorship. She moved the startup to Austin in […] Omadeke founded the Mentor Method in 2015 in Washington, D.C.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Startup CEO (OnlyOnce – the book!), My book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , is now available for pre-order on Amazon in multiple formats ( Print , Kindle ), which is an exciting milestone in this project! Writing a book is a LOT harder than I expected! questions”.

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VC Cafe

MAY 26, 2022

The top reason startups fail is lack of market need. But if you dig deeper, one of the reasons startups run out of cash or don’t find product market fit is ineffective teams. Startup CEOs would benefit from understanding the answers to these questions: Do team members openly and readily disclose their opinions?

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less , by Leidy Klotz is a great read, and in concert with the philosophy of the book, this will be a short blog post. The book’s basic premise is that less is more, addition by subtraction. I’ll close with two of my favorite quotes, both of which were in the book.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2014

The best way for small business owners and startup entrepreneurs to deal with that complexity is through careful planning, detailed documentation, and careful organization. Small businesses are more likely to hire an outside accountant who is versed in managing books, creating reporting systems, and preparing corporate taxes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Today, my new book, The Startup Way , finally hits bookshelves! It's a huge day for any author, but I also hope it can be a huge day for the future and growth of the startup movement and for the future of our country. In order to start those discussions, though, people need to read the book. Share the book socially.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2023

A few years ago, I enjoyed one of Guy Kawasaki’s first books, “ Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition.” Here is a sampling of ten themes from the book that I think are just as relevant today as they were then: The reality of starting. The reality of raising money.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2023

Some day there will be a genre called “ startup fiction.” ” I mean, if science fiction, which is a sub-genre of fiction, can have libertarian science fiction and recursive science fiction , surely startup fiction belongs in a sub-genre of a sub-genre of a sub-genre. I hope there are a lot more books like this.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2021

Today’s book recommendation, for anyone interested in venture capital, is The Business of Venture Capital: The Art of Raising a Fund, Structuring Investments, Portfolio Management, and Exits by Mahendra Ramsinghani. He was investing in Detroit and eager to write a book about the art and science of venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2023

If you sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably already know how to build a business, and even conservative investors won’t worry about the quality of your next business plan. There really is no excuse these days, with samples on the Internet, business-plan books in every bookstore, and dozens of apps to automate the process.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2020

Seven years ago this week, I posted about a new book in our Startup Revolution series called Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business , by my friend Matt Blumberg, then CEO of email marketing company Return Path in the Foundry portfolio. which is a great example of the new material in the book.

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