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10 Early Mistakes Startup Founders Should Avoid D9aa1adbb0aeeeb61a9800d1df81c1460d99acecba203b7d0f9d21e61e965e1f

10 Entrepreneur Comments That Kill Investor Deals

Lack of confidence in your self, your product, and your startup is a surefire recipe for disaster. At the other extreme, too much confidence or arrogance can kill you just as fast. It’s always painful when a startup fails, but as a mentor to founders, I would hope that you can learn from these failings […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
24 Mar 2013
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Due Diligence Is A Two-Way Street

Investors regularly confuse entrepreneurs with their various approaches to validating deals prior to investment (a process called “due diligence”).   A few seed stage investors (angels, super angels or seed stage VCs) have coffee with an entrepreneur and quickly learn enough to write checks.  Other investors or groups of investors study deals for months before investing.  […]
Bill Payne
Bill Payne , Angel Investor , Frontier Angel Fund
21 Mar 2013
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7 Worst Entrepreneurial Perceptions From Engineers

Every engineer who has invented some new technology, or is adept at creating solutions, believes that is the hard part, and it should be a short step to take that solution to market as an entrepreneur. In reality, that short business step embodies far more risk, and a poor technology solution is not near the […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
18 Mar 2013
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10 Entrepreneur Alternatives to Executive Isolation

One of the toughest things about running a startup is the feeling of loneliness and isolation. You are on your own and nobody supports you because it’s hard for them to see what you see and feel the excitement that you feel at the critical stages. This is especially true if you run your startup […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
10 Mar 2013
Valuation. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Why Sweat Equity Often Stinks

Somebody asked for standard boilerplate for sweat equity via the ask-me page on my website. I am looking for a contract template which states an agreement for services in exchange for equity. I was hoping that you would have a template that you can share. That’s not going to happen. Fundamental sweat equity is beautiful, blisteringly clear, […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
6 Mar 2013
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