Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. Not that we are entirely focused on raising future equity rounds, but for a startup that requires additional venture financing, it’s helpful to hit milestones that allow the team and prior investors to get compensated for their risk and effort.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2018

by Felix Winstone, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Talkative. As a startup co-founder with a growing team, here are the recruiting tips I’ve learnt over the last couple of years. Robert Metcalfe, co-founder and CEO of 3Com, says you need to think about it as “recruiting, not hiring”. Be Specific.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

and British governments have forced much of the rest of the world to create a more transparent financial system in which bad actors are more likely to be reported to authorities. We just need political will to increase enforcement and to public will to ostracize those who engage in illicit finance. But the U.S. And that is great.

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Gust

APRIL 13, 2014

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One ”. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” Look at the big picture first of development, finance, and marketing/sales.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2011

A while back I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ Ten Steps in Choosing the Right Startup Partner ”. In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this context, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 24, 2010

A week ago I talked about how and where to find a co-founder in “ How to Select an Ideal Startup Co-Founder ”. In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” In this article, I’m broadening the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.”

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. Startups have some unique struggles, especially in regard to financing. Key difference #2 – the relationship with funding.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

Our homeownership programs help people build momentum with their finances , and we hope to continue building momentum in our business for years to come! We always strive to be a cut above the rest in our industry and want to consistently uphold and earn our name. All boxes checked the rest is history. ParamountQuote.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We then help surround founders with other talent who want to join important causes but don’t have the startup idea themselves. We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2011

In this exclusive Caplinked interview with Peter Thiel – co-founder of PayPal and managing partner of Founders Fund – discusses why he invested in Facebook, the differences between Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and why he would not start PayPal today knowing what he now knows. Read the rest of the article here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. [00:14:38] DEREK: It was, “Can you create your own brand?”

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Generating excitement in others solely rests on you and the power of your story. I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. Co-evolution in an ecosystem is a beautiful and a relatively stable thing. The Kudzu and Disruption.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. I’ve seen people succeed as solo founders – but I think not having a co-founder makes an already hard journey that much harder. The rest is history.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Even better, Shelters has over fifteen years of entrepreneurial experience as a founder, co-founder as well as an advisor to numerous United States-based and Asia-based startups. “Prospective investors are not looking for an opportunity to financially support someone’s hobby,” Shelters cautions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. And we also talked about what it’s like to work with Steve Case.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

A breadth of understanding of common business principles, such as management, personnel and finance, is more important than a depth of knowledge in a technical area. Peers won’t be able to help you much in finding external investors, co-founders with prior experience and industry connections for distribution and marketing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Surrender to Serendipity My general rule of thumb is to make a big calendar with everything I could possibly want to do on it and then in the moment do whichever of the things is easiest and aligns with the rest of the group I’m worth. This session has Bill Gross, founder of IdeaLab and one of my favorite entrepreneurs and investors.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

These people can become toxic to the rest of the team. We advise founders and teams to build systems and processes with the right foundation early. This allows operational efficiency to fuel, as well as keep pace with, growth – while minimizing the amount of financing required. Applying the Traction Gap Framework.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Then remove half." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. ." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. That’s why enterprise suppliers are constantly flouting their compliance with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and all the rest. It’s a different thing.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

9- How my life and finances came to be. It’s about my life and how I managed my finances , and now I want to help other people that happen to be in the same shoes. We picked up this name because I, as the founder, consider myself a nerd. Thanks to Lisa Sigman, intheknowlegal ! #9- Photo Credit: Derek Sall.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

These people can become toxic to the rest of the team. We advise founders and teams to build systems and processes with the right foundation early. This allows operational efficiency to fuel, as well as keep pace with, growth – while minimizing the amount of financing required. Applying the Traction Gap Framework.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2011

Collectively (the founders & investors) agreed that it would be sensible to recruit a CEO to lead the next phase of the company so that the main founder could stay focused on the product where he excels and is passionate. I’m looking for somebody who is good at planning but doesn’t try to do the work of the VP Finance.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. People who constantly whine about the great ideas they had, years and years before the rest, but “just never pursued them because it was the wrong time”. Pursue your passions: Start with the why.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

For most founders, fundraising is a struggle. The rest have to work super hard to create access for themselves, build trust and win investors over. I’m a straight white dude who grew up in NYC and worked in finance. That may come with the headwinds of bias working against you—conscious or otherwise.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

My Blitzscaling co-author and friend Chris Yeh helped me record a Greymatter podcast episode where I share some of the great memories of and learnings from working with Jeff. Why do you call Jeff a co-founder of LinkedIn, even though he joined when the company was already five years old?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

Listing the co-founders initials and adding Realty would project the same old. I chose DevBev Co. Thanks to Devin Beverage, DevBev Co. ! #6- My co-founder and I came up with our company name by getting really drunk one night. Basically we charge 1% per side on a transaction instead of the normal 2.5%

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

David is the Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, the parent organization to five nonprofits dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life, from ages 5 to 65. David is also the Co-author of his newest book – Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career. John Jantsch (11:18): Yeah.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For the next entry in The Startup Magazine’s founder interview series , we are featuring Alejandro Russo, founder of Candela Mamajuana. After first working in banking and finance, Alejandro started and exited two other businesses before bringing his marketing and branding expertise to Candela. Alejandro: Just jump in.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it. At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori. Daymond offered to be an advisor.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

An Investor and a Founder Postmortem a Mistake. And while I passed on leading their seed, I did contribute a smaller amount into the financing, along with three subsequent pro rata/super pro rata investments. People ask me what do I think makes a successful founder and investor relationship and I always respond: trust and context.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Okay okay, "Planning == Bad," but the supposed benefits of planning are still important: designing for profitability, understanding your customers and competitors, focusing your attention, deciding what's worth doing next, changing directions, and ensuring the founders agree on important issues. Don't just rest on what comes easiest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

A breadth of understanding of common business principles, such as management, personnel and finance, is more important than a depth of knowledge in a technical area. Peers won’t be able to help you much in finding external investors, co-founders with prior experience and industry connections for distribution and marketing.

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