Entrepreneurship
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Wednesday, August 11th, 2010A colleague at Stanford, serial entrepreneur and friend Joe Beninato has a really great new blog based around his adventures on his 7th startup Tello.
His is an example of the many granular things that just need…
How to create a motivational Dream Wall
Friday, August 6th, 2010One of the sales people that works for me was having a few troubles getting “psyched up” to make cold calls to prospects and we sat down to discuss how he was feeling. After a short while I decided…
Ron Conway and Paul Graham startup success data
Monday, August 2nd, 2010I was watching Michael Arrington interviewing Ron Conway and Paul Graham and this is what I learned and also my own view after several startups of my own and those of friends.
So Ron’s very simple data from 500+
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Great lessons from an Angel Investor Matt Coffin
Friday, November 27th, 2009This is one of the best videos I have ever watched to help startups see what makes sense in coming up with an idea and other great lessons, how to avoid building something no one cares about, what angels…
Make sure your business plan gets read – build a “killer” exec summary
Friday, November 20th, 2009Like most people I hate writing business plans, I want to get on with the business at hand rather than keep writing and re-writing lots of words about what I plan to do!
This must also be true for…
Want to “burn” your Company to the ground…Fire the founder.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009This topic is always a hot one for founders when they are considering VC money!
Or indeed when they are talking with private equity companies.
I wanted to write about it as a very talented friend of mine was…
Get a Complete Set of Founder-friendly Legal Docs
Monday, September 28th, 2009Adeo at TheFunded has come up with some time and cost saving free legal docs that look good if you are US based and starting up. They are written to be less “VC-sided” and if you can use them…
10 tips for living and working with an Entrepreneur
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Entrepreneurs come from an incredibly broad range of places, cultures, religions and are obviously from either sex. As such compiling the perfect list is impossible, so this list is one perspective!
I have already written extensively about the myths…
Excellent video for tech startups…by Eric Ries
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009I met Eric through a friend Steve Blank and these two have formed a partnership of sorts both in teaching great lessons on startups which grew from working together at IMVU where Eric was a founder and Steve a…
How to write a winning elevator pitch
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009Writing a good and punchy “elevator pitch” is way harder than most people think. Plus I find that I really need to teach this skill a lot with my Stanford and UC Berkeley MBA’s to help them both with…
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