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What Founders Should Consider Early Exit Offer 601e498501579f6bfb2b1c25ae3ca66095ba6d7760710e7efe27246998f9eed7

What do Investors Want? Maybe What the World Needs?

Try this: take a step back from your phone, your FaceBook, and your daily routine, clear your mind, and think about the large-scale institutions that need change. What markets to disrupt? It’s going on three years since Fred Wilson of AVC did this excellent Google talk on disruption. What markets really need disruption? He said consumer […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
15 May 2012
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7 Reasons for Entrepreneurs to ‘First Know Thyself’

If you are going to be a real entrepreneur, it’s important that you know yourself well. After all, you won’t have a direct manager charged with giving you feedback, and your team probably will be afraid to tell you what they really think. Entrepreneurs need to recognize their own strengths and limitations. In any case, […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
14 May 2012
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TED Talk 2007: David S. Rose on Pitching to VCs

TED Talk 2007: David S. Rose on Pitching to VCs It’s pretty amazing that the video is from five years ago and has been viewed something like 500,000 times. Even though in the years since, I’ve done a lot more pitch coaching with a lot higher production value, it turns out that there is not […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
14 May 2012
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Can You Find Investors for a Family-Based Team?

I had in interesting discussion at the University of Texas Venture Labs Investment Competition last week. One of the teams there included husband and wife and wife’s father, with a very interesting business plan that I hope succeeds. They asked me to what extent family ties affect angel investor or venture capital interest. Why me? Presumably because […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
8 May 2012
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Copywrong: Brilliant, Disruptive, Illegal Business Plans

Entrepreneurs tend to focus on opportunity rather than risk, and rightly so.  As Steve Blank has written, at its core, a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.  In the lexicon of the lean startup movement, once “product-market fit” has been achieved, the focus shifts to scale and execution as the startup […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
3 May 2012
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