Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Here are a few of my favorites sampling techniques that I have seen work out well over the years: Take a job for a while with an early-stage startup. In all cases, it pays to play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and skills you already know. Adopt the Silicon Valley entrepreneur family model.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Getting people to buy in to your startup vision takes a thick skin, perseverance and willingness to learn. It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tenacity and resilience. Kerry Frank. Kerry : Yes they are.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” goes into a startup.

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