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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 20, 2016
Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Investor focus is on facilitating the scaling of a startup, after you have proven the business model.
Up and Running
JUNE 23, 2015
Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. See Also Robot Paper: What It Takes to Start a Comic Book Business.
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grasshopperherder.com
FEBRUARY 19, 2011
If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. Then please email me with the number of meetings you manage to get. If you’re waiting for a technical co-founder to put up a landing page with signup form, you’re lazy. Names redacted.) Do you have a website up?
infochachkie.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round.
grasshopperherder.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Piercing the Corporate Veil – Sweat Equity Consulting. « Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? But much like becoming a co-founder, getting paid sweat equity is essentially becoming an investor in the company.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.
www.chubbybrain.com
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
I was manifesting this huge monolithic application in my head that would revolutionize the job search, I had even written some code at this point, and didn’t have any idea if actual businesses were willing to pay a dime for it. When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow.
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