Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2023

Here are some key drivers that will likely lead you to a fundable idea: A business crisis. So why do I see some many funding requests for products along these lines? As an alternative, if you are an entrepreneur looking for the next big thing, where should you look?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Most entrepreneur that fail are quick to offer a litany of constraints that caused their demise – not enough money, time, customers, or support from the right players.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 1, 2018

Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. It began unremarkably, when Thiel traveled […].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

As an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, I see a lot of dreams, but not so many business results. I’m always excited by the dream, and disappointed by what I perceive as a lack of courage in many people to take the actions required to realize the dream.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 13, 2017

Some great ideas just can’t make money and ultimately die for lack of profit potential. Can you translate an idea into a compelling product? Some great ideas just cannot be made into a product at a reasonable enough price to attract customers. Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor?

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 9, 2020

“I had an app idea but no real idea how to executive it. “If customers can describe their idea in one, clear sentence then it can be made in our builder and it can be made quickly,” Redman wrote. I’m non-technical, meaning I can’t code. ” Image Credits: Chris Ede / Getty Images. .”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2023

Some great ideas just can’t make money and ultimately die for lack of profit potential. Can you translate an idea into a compelling product? Some great ideas just cannot be made into a product at a reasonable enough price to attract customers. Is it the advantage of time – years of development ahead of any competitor?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

Most of you aspiring entrepreneurs probably have long searched for that special idea that will catapult you and your startup to success. Yet, my experience as a business advisor and investor has convinced me that the magic is not the idea, but you and the execution. Every investor I know hears the same ones over and over again.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. It turns out that while she had the right idea the materials needed some reworking to come in at the cost structure required to build a business at scale.

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Berkonomics

JULY 7, 2022

First, visionary leadership: By far the most enjoyable for most of us is visionary leadership – the time we spend thinking ahead, creating new ideas for products or services, focusing on the big picture and how we can change the world with our creation. Visionary leadership is not performed in a vacuum. Email readers, continue here…].

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

But I would make the observation that if you stumble on to a really important idea that has the potential to be really valuable know that others will enter into the market precisely because markets are competitive and a lot of money and prestige is at stake. I know it sounds cliché. But I would ask you this.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Who in the auto industry believed Tesla, a totally electric car, was a good idea? of Elon’s ideas to come to fruition and let him fail on the rest. If there is something holding these big ideas back, it is not a shortage of money or even the barrier of insurmountable technical hurdles. Now they are partners. Working on it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 18, 2014

In person and in 1-on-1 meetings I’m a broken record on the topic and even though I’m very on-the-record that 70% of my investment decision is the quality of the entrepreneur more than the idea – I simply won’t fund if I don’t believe the entrepreneur is authentic and passionate about the problem he or she is solving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2023

In business, and in your personal life, the ability to anticipate and overcome criticism is one of the biggest differentiators between leaders, who make things happen, and followers, who may have great ideas but never seem to get things to go their way. The reality is that good ideas are always challenged, so you need to expect it.

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TechCrunch LA

JULY 29, 2020

Everyone loved the idea but the actual growth was slower than we needed it to be.” “We got to iterate through every possible idea we had. Literally every idea we had was exhausted… We failed and that’s a bummer, but we got a fair shot,” he said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2023

Over my many years of mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and business professionals, I often hear a desire to start a new business, with a big hesitation while waiting for that perfect idea and perfect alignment of the stars. So don’t wait for that “idea of the century” that no one has ever thought of before.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 24, 2020

We throw away 80% of our content ideas, and you should too. Choosing the right content idea. Amanda Milligan is the marketing director at Fractl , a prominent growth marketing agency that’s helped Fortune 500 companies and boutique businesses alike earn quality media coverage, backlinks, awareness and authority.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. 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. On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2021

Most aspiring entrepreneurs believe their initial idea and inspiration requires the most important creative thinking. Experienced entrepreneurs will tell you that the initial idea is the easy part, and it’s the later implementation, and the competitive business marketing that are the real creative challenges. Marty Zwilling.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

even if your hair is on fire and the idea is worth billions. Even if we don’t seem to get your brilliant idea and buy into its value, we may be comparing it to previous lost investments or industry experiences far beyond yours. Don’t talk yourself into a high valuation for the first round of financing for any reason….

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TechEmpower

JULY 2, 2013

Take a look at the list of test ideas we have collected to date. We look forward to hearing from Revel and Go experts with explanations and pull requests to apply for Round 7. If you''ve enjoyed this project so far, we''d like your opinion on what test to include next.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some businesses are built around a single idea. . And sometimes that idea is just too small a slice of the big picture to be interesting to investors. There was a recent investor event where I was keynote speaker, on stage only after several panels of experts had wowed the audience with their predictions and observations.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To start: “new source of energy” and “new ideas.”. When a new CEO or manager is hired into a company, for a while lots of energy flows from the top and new ideas seem to be generated daily. We recall the enthusiasm we had for the job earlier, how we couldn’t wait to get to work, or initiate a new plan, or share a new idea.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Email readers, continue here…] A great idea often fails from the inexperience or inability of management to bring the idea to market. Third: Management risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Every entrepreneur I know is dismayed by the number of friends who approach them with a line such as “I have an even better idea that will change the world, and one of these days I’m going to get around to starting my own business.” There must be something deeper that slows people down.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 8, 2020

Watt began talking to investors in 2018 about the idea and spent the bulk of 2019 trying to build out its first few companies. “ We run a lot of experiments, we generate a lot of ideas,” Watt says. The company has ten people on staff to help build its first slate of companies. ”

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Berkonomics

APRIL 6, 2023

Or the important one: “Is this idea on mission?” Some ideas sound unbelievably creative – and may be that. But sometimes there is a barrier, an impossibly high cost not considered, a social backlash never thought of, or competition already covering the idea that is unknown to the originator. Is this idea sustainable?”

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Google Maps can now also identify landmarks around you to give you better guidance and a clearer idea of where you are in a city. Adding it to multimodel directions may just get me to try it out more often since it is now more clearly highlighted in the app. Think the Empire State Building in New York, for example. Image Credits: Google.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2021

Humble leaders with this trait seem to create cultures that don't take themselves too seriously; cultures willing to take risks; cultures capable of creating and supporting a greater number of ideas. Encourage everyone to be open to new ideas and solutions without setting limiting beliefs. Willing to make mistakes. Likely to be heard.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The obvious starting point is the cross-pollination of ideas and talent. So when Tim floated the idea of chipping in a small amount to our fund I was immediately excited at this new relationship. There is no question in my mind that getting the startup community located within close proximity of each other has enormous benefits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I’m sure we have all seen entrepreneurs with high levels of passion and confidence touting an idea that seems to make very little sense to us. This refers to our mind’s tendency to give excessive weight to the first information we receive about a topic or the first idea we think of. Investing more into a bad idea doesn’t make it good.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. Unpack your best ideas. Ideas without context are just a commodity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 4, 2022

Why is it that his idea which seemed so fundable only months ago fails to attract investors today? The idea here is that following a process can actually force you to think. In all cases, be sure to distinguish between ideas and opportunities. The team is the same. The company's market is the same.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A longtime friend of the Kardashians, Sammons apparently approached Kardashian and her mom-ager, Kris Jenner, with the idea to start the business. Sammons, who left Carlyle this summer after spending 16+ years at the top private equity firm, is known for his bets on brands including Supreme and Beats by Dre.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2022

In researching this question, I reviewed a classic book by Bryan Mattimore, “ Idea Stormers: How to Lead and Inspire Creative Breakthroughs ,” which details eight attributes of the most creative people, which seem to match the mindsets of some of the best entrepreneurs I know. Always open to new things. Finding and transferring principles.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2022

I will highlight here just a few of the many lessons that they mention, and I also recommend, to get you started down the path to the satisfaction and success you dream about: Make sure some crazy ideas are added to your list. No idea should go unspoken. A popular and effective way to generate a range of ideas is brainstorming.

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