I am a venture capitalist. I take other people's money, invest it in exciting little companies, hope those companies get bigger and, if all goes well, return more money to my investors than they gave me. I recently met a financial planner who informed me that his mission was to help me achieve my life's goals. He asked me a string of questions in an effort to understand me as a person, and then...
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When I see a business model with 5 revenue streams, I know they really have zero. The business model canvas has always felt wonderfully playful. I’ve had a great deal of [misguided?] fun concocting increasingly complicated models. Tempted toward the clever. Upon tanking my next company, I was ever-so-gently reminded that “clever” usually means “convoluted” and is a wonderful way to lie to...
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The start-up boom means there are more freshly minted millionaires looking to manage their wealth. And Wall Street firms are happy to help, for a fee.
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Alright, in my last post I argued that bootstrapping is just as over-rated as raising venture capital. But for those who decide to pursue fundraising, here are some things entrepreneurs should avoid when raising capital. For all of the talk about how much excess capital there is, it’s actually hard to raise capital because very few projects fit the VC profile—even though many VC-funded projects...
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But for some reason the fim industry doesn't want to move to the new model. They want to stick with scarcity. So they lost a transaction last night. And they lose transactions every night, to piracy, to competing forms of entertainment, and possibly to apathy brought about by frustration. Such a shame.
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I was on the phone with Tony Conrad at True Ventures pitching a business idea I had in early 2009. The site was built and we even had people registered for it and I had about a half million dollars already committed but I wanted a VC firm on my side as well. I don’t know why. Maybe I thought it would give me some credibility and I desperately craved it after the divorce I had been going through.
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So back to startups hiring a PR firm. Yes, you can get there from here with a PR firm, but im a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.
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Every Michigan needs its Ohio State, and New York City has been working hard to become one to Silicon Valley. In the last year, the city has pumped up its digital initiatives, welcomed prestigious startup accelerator TechStars, opened new offices for Twitter and Facebook and announced plans for a 2.1-million-square-foot Cornell tech campus.
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This classic 25-word definition pares entrepreneurship to its essence and explains why it's so hard. And so addictive. Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity without regard to resources currently controlled.
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Here are 33 people we have interviewed who are changing the world for the better. There is no ranking. There is no competition. And there is no scientific formula; just great people we’ve gotten to know through IdeaMensch who we want to share with you. There are social entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, an investor, a soldier, animal rights advocates, authors and even a reverend on our list.
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