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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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Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). About that time the bubble burst, causing more than 80% of them to disappear. Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
1 Oct 2012
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How do you cross the chasm between commitment to invest in your start-up, to closing a funding round?

By far the hardest step in all this is getting a term sheet. Once you have a term sheet in hand, and assuming good faith, everything else will follow. The best way to get a term sheet is to concentrate your efforts on an investor who has the ability, history and interest in leading rounds. […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
27 Sep 2012
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