VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Each has met legal securities minimums for net worth and professionalism, to reduce the risk to entrepreneurs. Most share expertise as well as money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Marty Zwilling

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Plenty of fresh powder in the market across stages. This is even before serial entrepreneur Liad Agmon joins as partner. SPACs – despite of their poor performance, there are many active SPACs still out there searching for targets. Several other hires are underway for the local office.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

And one question that many startups overlook at the early stages of formulating their business plans: do you have a well-reasoned, effective, and budget-savvy marketing plan? Entrepreneurs aren’t superheroes. That’s where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in. Identify what your customers are searching for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. Don’t get me wrong. Experts and market research agree you are first.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2009

This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I also wonder about the entrepreneur who would sign a term sheet that came from somebody they hadn’t gotten to know over time. Great entrepreneurs pivot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. This time I'm getting to know Mark Geller ( LinkedIn , @markgeller ). Tell me a bit about your background.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. – versus the attributes of a great entrepreneur – pattern recognition, tenacity, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 18, 2014

In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. business entrepreneur idea invention startup value'

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business owners have never faced a crisis like the 2020 pandemic. Business funding can help entrepreneurs tackle some of the financial problems at an early stage. Often well-known entrepreneurs and business owners underestimate the importance of a negative persona.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Not understanding and agreeing what “Entrepreneur&# and “Startup” mean can sink an entire country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Who’s an entrepreneur? There are six distinct organizational paths for entrepreneurs: lifestyle business , small business, scalable startup, buyable startup, large company, and social entrepreneur.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. It can help you be a strong athlete, which makes you an attractive early-stage player.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn launched Hello Alice with the goal of helping entrepreneurs thrive with access to funding, resources, mentorship, and more. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. We never have.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 6, 2013

As a B2B company, I am personally excited about this, but I am here to tell my fellow early-stage (seed-funded or unfunded) enterprise startup entrepreneurs that acquiring enterprise customers is no joke. Through organic search, companies like Intuit and Salesforce registered for our product and paid for content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

But this is becoming less true today, as more and more entrepreneurs find their way across the U.S. Increasingly, these metro areas are regularly appearing in rankings of the best cities in the United States for startups and entrepreneurs. It’s no wonder so many entrepreneurs launch their startup in Boulder.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Need for a better renovation. During this time she began showing increasing signs of early-stage dementia. I learned firsthand about the everyday challenges those living with early dementia face, including using the telephone.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Personal Quest. Losing my younger brother at the age of ten to cancer, I pledged to live a healthy life very early on. So we had done a few searches in LA years back and there weren’t many companies as compared to now.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

These people exist and they are called ‘Serial entrepreneurs.’. Serial entrepreneurs are those who understand the complete concept of a startup lifecycle and benefit from that. In this article, we will discuss why it is important to understand the whole startup stages concept before you start a business to get the most benefit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

” Sean is somebody widely respected in Silicon Valley (although he now lives in SoCal) for having helped many early-stage companies go through major growth periods by quantitatively testing features with audiences to help diagnose what led to growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners what their side hustles are and here are the responses. #1- I run an early stage-startup called Smarthome NX that helps consumers discover Smart home technologies through content, collaborative partnerships and commerce. I love helping creative entrepreneurs get found online.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

Every startup entrepreneur wants to see their company grow. So what are the biggest barriers startup entrepreneurs experience in their route to achieve long-term growth? In the early stages of your business’s development, you’re going to notice dead weight. And more importantly, how can you avoid or overcome them? .

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

However, I find that none of this is really the case, and entrepreneurs face especially tough challenges in the very beginning of their process of finding that second company to start. Many second-time founders take a more deliberate, academic approach to searching for a problem. 3: Re-calibrating to a new stage and time.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Entrepreneurs and business owners stand to gain a lot. A business podcast for every entrepreneur. When the iPod rose to prominence in early naughties , most everyone was walking around with headphones in their ears, opening up content creators to a new method of sharing their voice with the world.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. Searching LinkedIn, for example, is a must for contemporary entrepreneurs. But don’t wait for them to contact you.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

But that’s the conclusion of a provocative research paper, Asymmetric Information and Entrepreneurship , that explains a new theory of why some people choose to be entrepreneurs. The authors’ conclusion — Entrepreneurs think they are better than their resumes show and realize they can make more money by going it alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2016

In fact, I often have to tell aspiring entrepreneurs that their inventions have zero value, at least not until they are put in the context of a business plan, with qualified people committed to executing the plan. Early-stage ideas fall in the same category. Don’t get me wrong. Experts and market research agree you are first.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 25, 2012

For those of us who’ve invested in early stage companies, especially technology startups, we have confronted a universal problem. There are many ways to project the value of a company for purposes of pricing an investment, but all rely upon the revenue and profit projections of the entrepreneur as a starting point.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Perhaps the most misused terms I see these days from entrepreneurs involve CAC (customer acquisition costs) and LTV (life time value) and a lack of understanding these critical components is driving many companies to premature failure. So I spend an inordinate amount of time with entrepreneurs focused on payback. LTV is imprecise.

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. This one is tricker in the pre-revenue stage. The irony hurts. Pitch late.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Entrepreneurs talk to customers and competitors talk to each other about the new trends and technologies they see. Operating in stealth mode for an extended period tends to convince entrepreneurs to believe their own biases, and visibly fight the need to change. Being open is the new business culture around the world.

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