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Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 2, 2022
As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives.
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Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 27, 2014
As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 17, 2018
As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 9, 2015
As a long-time mentor to entrepreneurs, here is my collection of smart risks that investors and I look for in new startups: Focus on a tough customer problem rather than a fun technology. Even non-profits need revenue to cover their costs, and continue to provide services. Use metrics to measure results of marketing initiatives.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 2, 2015
It’s such a tricky balance between being cost-focused & scrappy versus being impractical with how you spend your time. Great startups have budgets. It turns out that financial reporting (GAAP) doesn’t take into account the only thing that matters to startup survival – cashflow. And so must you.
The Next Web
MARCH 11, 2014
Visit his blog to read more about startups and product design. How can stupid-sounding startups with untested ideas become so successful? “It Late last year, Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures published a study on billion-dollar startups , partly in attempt to identify patterns in these wildly successful, “unicorns.”
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