Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. This time, Im discussing the challenge for corporate CFOs and VCs alike in holding entrepreneurs accountable. Read the rest here.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

“Growth hacking perpetuates this myth that you can magically achieve hockey-stick growth by using short-term “hacks.” “ I have always encouraged teams to think about growth as daily blocking-and-tackling rather than a dark art. I laughed as I did at much of his rant. He even used some terminology near and dear to my heart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

Here are the key principles I recommend as an advisor to many entrepreneurs: Start your business in your own home. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

My conclusion was that I should have realized that the first person who pitched me on Airbnb wasn’t a great consumer internet investor, which means I should have realized that he might not describe the opportunity accurately. (This experience led me to update my investing playbook. Clearly I had made a mistake.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Discovery, in contrast to search, took center stage as Pinterest displayed hockey stick growth (and raised VC money near a $200M valuation in late 2011). This will continue as more role models, mentors and capital are created from the resulting success stories, thereby creating more support for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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