Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is as high as 50 percent. Execution skills are weak.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2017

I was influenced heavily before my career even began because in my undergraduate work I took a ton of statistics classes that showed how easily we human brains fall prey to easy biases and slights of data and try to draw conclusions that don’t exist. Coming back with an empty chamber for the third battle is much worse than not coming back.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 9, 2012

These entrepreneurs do not risk everything, work outrageous hours and put themselves under extreme pressure because they want to. If it were a decision to be an entrepreneur, then most right-minded individuals would decide to turn back when they encountered the first inevitable startup crises. Entrepreneurs want to matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2013

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. Writing something down is the first step toward moving forward and making it real. The best entrepreneurs finish something every day.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. For aspiring entrepreneurs, or if your last startup failed, it’s all about standing out above the crowd of others like you, and demonstrating your readiness.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. As I tell our LPs, “if I’m not making you slightly uncomfortable when I’m writing my first check I’m not doing my job.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Too many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. Writing something down is the first step toward moving forward and making it real. The best entrepreneurs finish something every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. The professor plotted data and showed us statistically that most people buy stocks when they are booming (e.g. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. VC’s are not immune to this phenomenon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2023

Many aspiring entrepreneurs I mentor can talk at length about their innovative ideas and passions, and ask lots of good questions, but never make much progress in building a real business. Writing something down is the first step toward moving forward and making it real. The best entrepreneurs finish something every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs. This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. What you gain: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Statistics show that the failure rate for new startups within the first 5 years is higher than 50 percent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2015

I believe many entrepreneurs have ADD. I have checked Twitter at least 10 times during the writing of this post so far and Facebook 3 times. I can’t write a blog post and then wait 3 days to publish. It’s why I don’t write for TechCrunch or similar much any more. Embrace it. Email twice. I have ADD.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2014

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. business entrepreneur hires startup' Look for job knowledge first.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2012

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Resumes won’t give you the positive conclusion, but they can highlight negatives, like job gaps, bad writing, and minimal experience. “He All the statistical research shows that there is very little correlation between a good personality and any specific job. “I didn’t have time to read the resume, but he has great answers.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

In the aftermath of the recent pandemic, which caused many businesses to close, a new raft of business workers and entrepreneurs are deciding to pursue their own dreams of being a new business owner, and controlling your own destiny. Pundits in Latino countries quickly pointed out that the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

As a mentor to startups and new entrepreneurs, I continue to hear the refrain that business plans are no longer required for a new startup, since investors never read them anyway. For aspiring entrepreneurs, or if your last startup failed, it’s all about standing out above the crowd of others like you, and demonstrating your readiness.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2009

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company. We track certain statistics, including checklist items and usage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs. I wanted to just write.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2017

Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay. Message supports are stories, statistics, and sound bites that reinforce your message. Even the most experienced executives write down what they need to say, and practice for every event.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Admittedly, that last part is an exaggeration but they were bad enough that I am writing this essay in the hopes that you will read it and not make these mistakes. So when we come across an entrepreneur who cannot resist using 20 words when 10 would suffice, it’s painful, really painful. Consider this a self-defense essay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2018

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. These are missing a major opportunity to be found instantly via the Internet, locally and around the world.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 6, 2012

His lecture begins with three blank boxes on the projector in front of an audience of 500 business leaders, journalists, and aspiring entrepreneurs, leaders, and business executives of Toronto. In the boxes he writes: 1. Manage the present. Selectively forget the past. Create the future. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 10, 2010

He cites a statistic that about 1/100 medical doctors lose their licence, 1/200 layers lose their license to practice law but only 1/2,500 teachers ever loses their ability to teach our children. I graduated this class and at all of 16 years old wanted to be an entrepreneur. and villan of the film. Wolters) and high school (Mr.

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