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10 Perspective Checks on Your Startup Aspirations

Every entrepreneur needs to be honest about their strengths and weaknesses, and realistic about their reasons for choosing the startup route. For any entrepreneur, even the best business opportunities, if entered for the wrong reasons, will likely fail. Some of these reasons seem obvious, so forgive me for restating, but I still hear them too […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
2 Dec 2012
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How do serial entrepreneurs such as Kevin Systrom and Jack Dorsey sustain themselves while working on a project that doesn’t yet generate cash-flow?

Unfortunately there is no magic involved here. In the two specific cases you mentioned, one had made money from his previous startups, and the other had paying jobs at Google and Nextstop. Typically serial entrepreneurs are serial because they have successfully exited from Startup One before beginning Startup Two, and they use the first one […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
29 Nov 2012
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10 Course Corrections Every Startup Should Memorize

The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. The vision part is fine, but successful entrepreneurs have found that the extreme uncertainty of a new product or service usually requires many course corrections, or “pivots” […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
25 Nov 2012
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How many start-ups in the US get seed/VC funding per year?

In very general terms, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists in the US, and 50,000 by angel investors. VCs look at around 400 companies for every one in which they invest; angels look at 40. There are several million “startups” that are formed each year, so one way of looking at it is […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
22 Nov 2012
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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. I’ve written […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
19 Nov 2012
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