Tag: Entrepreneur
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I recently met an amazing founder. His company had incredible potential. But he was afraid to quit his job and pursue it full time. So, when is the right time to go all in? Just like a startup, people have runway. Your runway is the amount of time until you…
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VC’s will diligence the heck out of you. But you should be diligencing them too. Here’s how to do it… Don’t ask the VC for references. He can just cherry pick the founders in his portfolio that are the most likely to say something nice about him. Instead, go to…
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Most lawyers and accountants have no idea how to work with tech startups. So where should founders go? Here are my favorites… Incorporation: Capbase. Capbase can get you properly incorporated in minutes for less money than others. It’s just $999/year. Full disclosure: I have a small investment in this one.…
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Most startups will never be a huge success. Their vision isn’t big enough. Let’s take a look at 3 of the most successful startups of the 2020’s. All have reached valuations of over $10 billion. Each of these founders imagined a radically different world, then went out and made it…
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The last two checks I wrote were into companies I met a year ago. This is why building relationships over time is so important if you want to raise money. “Investors invest in lines, not dots.” Mark Suster My Portfolio Behind the Scenes Let’s take a look at those two…
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Taichi Ohno invented modern, just-in-time manufacturing at Toyota. Near the end of his career, Ohno gave up his entire playbook in one slim volume, The Toyota Production System. So when I found an antiquated looking copy in a Little Free Library near my home, I had to give it a…
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Here’s how I know I met a great founder: he’s at a customer site when we talk, sitting next to the Pepsi machine. Too often, investors look for the wrong things when they meet a founder. Did he go to Harvard? Is he in San Francisco? Is a big name…
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I recently had a founder offer to pay me for advice. I said no and gave him the advice for free. Advice from an investor is one thing you should never pay for. Here are a few others: 1) Accelerators. No legitimate accelerator charges you money. Real accelerators give you…
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Masa’s first fund was tiny: about $300,000. Years later, he raised $98.6 billion, the largest venture fund in history. How he grew to become the world’s largest technology investor is the subject of the new book Gambling Man. Skipping the Line Masa didn’t operate like Sequoia or Kleiner. Those firms…
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“‘At night I would cry on my own in the hospital room — the treatment [to reduce inflammation of the liver] was really horrible. I kept on asking myself why I had to die at a time like this…’” Masayoshi Son was 24 years old and on top of the…
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Tremendous 