According to a report distributed by the Angel Capital Education Foundation, total startup funding from venture capital funds, state funds, and angel investors totals approximately $20.8 billion annually. Surprisingly, friends and family contributed nearly three times the amount of capital to thous
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Startup Professionals Musings: Friends and Family: Largest Startup Funding Source
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5158 days ago
Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Ask For Money
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5159 days ago
The first question most people seem to ask when contemplating a new startup is where they will get the money. That’s certainly a valid question, but all the money in the world won’t make your business a success if you hate what you are doing, and you aren’t prepared to do the job. I suggest that there are several other questions even more important than the money one
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Entrepreneurs: See Paranoia As An Opportunity
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5160 days ago
Even though 1984 passed uneventfully over 25 years ago, there is still a large population out there worried about George Orwell, and the animals taking over the farm. Why is everyone so paranoid these days? My plea to entrepreneurs and startups is to recognize it as an opportunity, and go the extra mile to make people comfortable rather than paranoid
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Reinvent But Don’t Eliminate Your Staff Meetings
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5161 days ago
Most of us view weekly staff meetings today with a degree of trepidation and frustration. Without clear expectations, two-way communication, and effective execution, they are too often a waste of time for all participants. Many have suggested that it is time re-engineer this process, or eliminate the meetings entirely
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Startups Need Focus To Cross All The Chasms
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5162 days ago
Everyone in the business world has heard of the book by Geoffrey A. Moore titled “Crossing the Chasm” (1991), but most entrepreneurs have no idea how it relates to them. In fact, it’s all about the “focus” required to get early stage technology products across the deadly chasm from early adopters to mainstream customers
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Funding Your Startup: Are You a Zero or a One?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5163 days ago
When I say that funding is a binary event, I mean that there are only two possible outcomes: either you succeed in getting funding, or you don’t. You win or you lose – there is no second place. All or nothing
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Six Personality Traits of Serious Entrepreneurs
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5164 days ago
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 line of work
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Ten Founder Success Factors – And a Few Surprises
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5165 days ago
Made Hot by: HomeBusinessMedia on August 30, 2010 4:09 am
We can all dream about what it takes to make our startup a success. From recent survey feedback, it seems evident that the urban legends leading to success are wrong. The average entrepreneur is not the one who dumped a promising career, sketched his idea on the back of a napkin, and accepted millions from an investor to make millions of his own.
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Where is Your Startup In the Gartner Hype Cycle?
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5166 days ago
The Hype Cycle was a concept put forward by Gartner, Inc. back in 1995 meant to apply to technology product evolution and acceptance. As I was reading about it recently, it occurred to me that the concept relates directly to how investors see startup opportunities and potential success as well, at least those with technology in their offerings
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Lon Safko – Entrepreneur, Inventor, and Author
Posted by martinzwilling under StartupsFrom http://blog.startupprofessionals.com 5167 days ago
A couple of weeks ago I was privileged to meet Lon Safko, probably most recognized as the author of his best-selling book “The Social Media Bible.” In reality, he is also a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and international speaker. Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. His “First Computer To Save A Human Life,” and more than 30,000 of Lon‘s papers are in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C
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