Helping Startups Accelerate Funding
Whether you’re for the first time ever or just the initial round this week, your mission is to incite their passion and provide compelling evidence of a potential boost to their bottom line. And you will likely have less than 10 minutes to accomplish this and will compete against dozens of other businesses in need of […]
Tech entrepreneur, Clara Shih, was recently elected to the Starbucks Board of Directors to replace Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg–who will not be seeking re-election in 2012. Although she doesn’t want to opine on why Starbucks would want to hire her, I suppose this could answer the question: Starbucks considers her a pioneer within the technology industry. Pioneer indeed. Shih is one woman who created […]
More and more, I have entrepreneurs coming to me before a major competition, pitch event, or conference saying, “We only have _____ (fill in the blank with any single-digit number) minutes to present. How do we get it all in?” I also coach hundreds of accelerator demo days, and with each event they seem to […]
There’s essentially three options for a tech venture outgrowing its startup days: Get big, get bought or go broke. Sensing hard times ahead, a growing number of entrepreneurs are casting around for suitors and a shot at door #2. “There are a lot of companies out there right now trying to put themselves on the […]
