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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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What are the regulatory barriers preventing the emergence of a liquid market for equity in seed stage startups?

Parts of the answer are that (a) there are enormous regulatory requirements relating to secondary markets, and (b) there are no analysts tracking private company stocks. But by far the biggest issue is that the very essence of public markets (and what makes them “public”) is that the SEC mandates an enormous amount of transparency, […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
15 Nov 2012
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6 Clues That You May Be Cool as an Entrepreneur

A while back, when a startup founder mentioned to me that he wasn’t sure he had the personality to be an entrepreneur, I realized how important that insight was. My first thought is that if you are more annoyed than energized by expert advice, team suggestions, and customer input, then you should probably avoid this […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
11 Nov 2012
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