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10 Tips From A Venture Capitalist Who’s Heard It All Before

February 24, 2005 by Dane Carlson | 3 Comments

Globe and Mail:

  1. If you can’t write it down, or don’t know how, don’t start.
  2. Can you take it? Day after day?
  3. If you want a partner, find someone who is good at what you’re not.
  4. Figure out exactly how slowly you can make money.
  5. No one will give you money for a bad idea, and they’ll want the moon for a good one.
  6. Big names don’t make the best advisers or business partners.
  7. Persistence, bobbing and weaving, and luck mean more than an MBA.
  8. Don’t sell an “If we get just a 1% market share” story.
  9. Your spouse and friends can only take so much.
  10. If you’re doing it properly, you should be going home four or five days per month hating what you’re doing.

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  • Jim Logan on February 24th, 2005 6:02 pm

    Thanks for the list! It’s a keeper.

    The one that gets me is #8. I once worked for a company that launched a business strategy to be a $1B company by gaining 10% market share in a large market. To me and others, we heard we were going to launch ourselves into a market whereby we planned to loose $9 of every $10 spent. Hardly exciting.

    Needless to say, the company never came close to $1B. It lacked a plan to be anything more than a mediocre player in a large market.

  • Business Opportunities Weblog En Español on February 24th, 2005 6:25 pm

    10 Tips de un Empresario Capitalista que lo ha Escuchado Todo

    Globe and Mail: Si no puedes escribirlo, o no sabes como, no empieces. ¿Puedes afrontarlo? ¿Día tras día? Si quieres un socio, busca a alguien que sea bueno en lo que tu no eres. Date cuenta exactamente de que tan…

  • robhyndman.com on February 27th, 2005 6:01 am

    10 Tips from a VC

    Via Dane Carlson, a Globe article on 10 tips for entrepreneurs from an experienced VC.

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