Pre-Funding Tactics – The Art of Pitching Without Pitching
Don’t start to pitch Venture Capitalists until you’ve tested their likely level of interest in your startup. This means making ...
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The 3 Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned From Starting Up
I’ve been an entrepreneur for more than half of my life. At 16, I founded Buzz Marketing Group, the youth ...
Technologists Need to Team With an Entrepreneur
In my experience, inventors and technologists aren’t interested or aren’t very good at building a business, and entrepreneurs aren’t usually ...
Startup Leaders Must Discard Their Security Blanket
One of the biggest impediments to starting a new venture is the “terror barrier,” a concept popularized by Bob Proctor, ...
Recruit This Rock Star If You Want to Raise Money Fast
I read an interesting blog post recently titled, Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers (update: he has since ...
Can Your Startup Flourish Despite Business Chaos?
Every startup founder I know talks about the chaos of their business, which they usually attribute to that burst of ...
What’s Inside the Mind of an Entrepreneur
We are now in the age of entrepreneurism. How can we be sure? For starters, more than half of millennials ...
Top 3 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make When Issuing Equity
Below are the top three mistakes entrepreneurs tend to make when issuing equity. 1) They don’t create a capitalization table ...
5 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Fail Before They Even Start
It’s most people’s dream to become entrepreneurs. But just how many of them actually end up being an entrepreneur? My ...
Getting Things Done Trumps Great Ideas in a Startup
When someone introduces me to an “idea person,” I automatically jump to the down-side conclusion that this person doesn’t do ...