As many entrepreneurs will attest, failure is an inherent aspect of success and innovation. At scale, when really big things are on the line, failure is costly. Some failures cost millions – if not billions of dollars; others cost time, jobs, heart ache, and even lives. The worst failures aggregate it all. Remember the financial […]
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Men of Our Time
When I think of a modern “man of his time“, I dig a little deeper than headlines. I go beyond founders of well-publicized IPOs, the business mogul du jour and the media obsession with celebrity. Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Richard Branson. Modern men of our time, for sure. Their names roll off the […]
Write a Winning Prospectus to Get Your Start-up Funded. Here’s How.
Writing a winning prospectus isn’t about presenting your financial crystal ball to investors. It’s not always about the numbers. Yes, investors want to see that some thought went into realistic number-crunching and revenue calculations. The more realistic, the better. But, the reality is, if you’re an early stage start-up seeking funding beyond the F&F network […]
HalloThanksMas
Holiday mash-up. It gets progressively worse every year. Come fourth quarter, retailers are drooling to make the numbers. And with the economy still shaky, why not start promoting the Christmas shopping season in September before the Halloween sugar implosion and the Thanksgiving tryptophan coma? I get why retailers need to move Christmas in early fourth […]
