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Don’t Let Early Adopters Distract Your Market Focus

For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” The conventional wisdom is that early adopters are the ideal target for new products, to get business rolling. I see two pitfalls with any concerted focus on early adopters; first, the size of this group may not be as large as you think, […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
10 Feb 2013

What? Avoiding Undue Diligence? Seriously?

I suspect this is one of those provocative posts that gets misquoted, misaligned and misunderstood, and definitely not to be taken at face value. Still, read  Avoiding Undue Diligence: My Strange Approach To Angel Investing, in which Dharmesh Shah argues against due diligence in angel investment. I don’t subscribe to the idea in the title. And I’m […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
5 Feb 2013
Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

10 Sage Quotes From $100M Entrepreneur Winners

Entrepreneurs are a notoriously stubborn (some say confident) group of people, so I see many of them making the same mistakes that predecessors have made. Thus I’m convinced that it’s useful for all of you to step back from time to time, and listen to some sage advice from people who have been there and […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
3 Feb 2013
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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

Last month, the SEC announced it was taking action regarding Netflix’ (NFLX) securities compliance based on a Facebook status update posted by CEO Reed Hastings.  The move came as a shock to many in the tech business community, in which we’ve become accustomed to real-time disclosure by company executives through social media.  What could be wrong with more transparency? […]
Antone Johnson
Antone Johnson , Founding Principal , Bottom Line Law Group
31 Jan 2013
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The Startups Weekend Phenomenon and Angel Investors

Actual, fundable, serious startups in a single weekend? No. Real? Great learning experience? And worth doing? Yes. Last Sunday night I judged nine pitches from nine groups that started from scratch just two days before, late Friday afternoon. They had some good ideas, good pictures, a prototype or two, some good video … and an […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
30 Jan 2013
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