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Business Advice From Female Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs' Organization

” Here are several pieces of advice for growing businesses from successful women entrepreneurs. million women-owned firms averaged only US$130,000 in receipts in 2007, the most recent year for which data was available. We never take a risk without weighing the pros, cons and financial aspects to include return on investment.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others. I started doing SnapStorms, which are short burst of video around a certain startup or financing topic.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on my background. I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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What is the Definition of a Seed Round or an A Round?

Gust

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.).

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Want to Raise Venture Capital More Easily? Clean Up Your Own Shite First

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It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. The list goes on.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#. If you invested in the first angel round of a startup company it is usually very hard to sell your stock – usually for many years if ever at all. Here’s what I mean. They are pretty illiquid.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

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When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations. Short answer – yes.

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