National Small Business Week, increasing confidence, sales consultants and “speed dating for businesses” are in the news on June 18, 2013.
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venture capital
If you’re the one telling entrepreneurs they need to show some fantastic return on investment, stop it. It isn’t helping them.
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How to finance your startup? You can buy books on that topic, take courses, and hire consultants. It’s complex and it changes fast for different times, places, and financing options. But for people just looking at this question for the first time, here 10 general rules and guidelines. Warning: There are exceptions in every case. [...]
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The social web is drastically changing the way young companies get noticed, and getting noticed by the right person or network can mean investment, growth, and ultimately business success. If you’re not keeping up to date on innovative new ways to find funding for your business, including crowd sourcing and Internet-based campaigns, you’re missing golden [...]
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This is from Stanford’s ecorner videos, with the following summary: Though Randy Komisar, KPCB partner and seasoned entrepreneur, proposes that most successful ventures do not find success in their initial business idea, he still maintains there is value in constructing a thoughtful initial plan. Any “Plan A” must flesh out your business’ assumptions, challenges, and [...]
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If you’re looking toward the high end of the startups world, meaning the best-of-the-best startups funded by serious venture capital, then I highly recommend reading 9 Quick Tips Learned While Raising $33 Million In Venture Capital, posted last month by Dharmesh Shah at OnStartups. Actually, even if you’re not at the high end, Dharmesh offers [...]
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Hooray for bootstrapping. My startup mistake number 7 is accepting the popular myth that has startups always requiring winning investment from some outsider. This idea is way too common in business schools, blogs and books. Sure, a few thousand high-profile startups get investment each year, but the vast majority of startups are bootstrapped. I saw [...]
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I try to read Stu Phillips’ Soaring on Ridgelift whenever he posts. He’s a venture capitalist. He’s also, judging from his posts on the blog, a smart person, thoughtful about business, a good writer. And his latest–about the future of venture capital–is important. He acknowledges a lot of talk about venture capital being broken, but [...]
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I love it: facts, information, surveys and information sources. You could have read here Monday, posted by me, how venture capitalist investment was up a bit in the second quarter of this year. And you can read here today, also posted by me, how venture capital investment dropped 51 percent in the second quarter. Contradictory? [...]
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