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10 Early Mistakes Startup Founders Should Avoid D9aa1adbb0aeeeb61a9800d1df81c1460d99acecba203b7d0f9d21e61e965e1f

10 Entrepreneur Tips Dodge Million-Dollar Mistakes

It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Yet, there is no doubt that the best strategy is to learn from someone else’s mistakes, so you can enjoy […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
14 Oct 2012
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Incorporate before pitching to VC’s?

While you will definitely need to be a corporate entity before you can accept funding from any investor (or issue stock options to any employees), the specific corporate status of the venture at this stage is much less important to investors than its functional status. That is, if all you have is a good idea, […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
11 Oct 2012
Startup Strategies: The Strategic and Financial Significance of Intellectual Property

Stealth Mode Entrepreneurs Only Increase the Risk

Every time I hear about a new startup that is in stealth mode, I wonder what problem they are hiding from whom. Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
7 Oct 2012
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Do Venture Capitalists care how the equity is split among the founders?

People who tell you that VCs won’t look at a company with an even equity split are being silly. That has never once, in my experience, been even a slight hiccup, let alone a dispositive factor in a seed investment. That said, there is a core of truth in the concept that there always needs […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
4 Oct 2012
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Investors are Aiming for the Big Win, Not the Mean or Average

True story: many long years ago I had founders’ stock in a video game company. At one point they were just a few weeks from going public, but that’s not the point of this story. It was about a “hit” business, meaning a business in which you had to have a lot of products in […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
2 Oct 2012
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