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Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 17, 2023
On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 22, 2020
On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.
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Hearpreneur
JANUARY 21, 2017
But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 6 – Investment Banker.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting. Increasing government regulations.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 5, 2011
Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. With Sarbanes-Oxley, the CEO, CFO, and the Board of Directors are all assumed to have full knowledge of all government standards of compliance and reporting. Increasing government regulations.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2018
My most recent book, The Startup Way , is all about the methods and tools big corporations, government, and non-profits can use to innovate: think of it as Lean Startup at scale. One of the stories I tell in The Startup Way comes from the Federal Government. Investment bankers are staking out your house.”
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