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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Even top big-company executives are considered high-risk in a startup environment.

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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Even top big-company executives are considered high-risk in a startup environment.

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Joint Statement by Colorado High-Tech Companies on COVID-19

Feld Thoughts

we are calling on government officials and other business leaders to restrict large group gatherings, including in the largest entertainment venues along the Front Range. Our actions alone will not be enough, and we cannot wait for our government agencies and elected officials to mandate these restrictions. Every hour counts.

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[Review] Startup Communities

YoungUpstarts

“We need to be like Silicon Valley,” we hear many a startup community organizer around the world intone. After all, Silicon Valley been held up as a shining example as a hotbed for startups and many clamor to copy its success in positioning themselves as a similar scene for innovation and technological entrepreneurship.

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The Co-Founder Mythology

Both Sides of the Table

I covered what I call “the co-founder mythology.&# So embedded is this conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley that it feels like heresy to even question it. Either you’re not technical and you think you need a technical co-founder or vice-versa. Hire your co-founder. Why risk it?

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. The result?

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7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. Products requiring changes to government regulations. Even top big-company executives are considered high-risk in a startup environment.