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Monday, December 17, 2012
Red Rocket's Best Startups of 2012
Red Rocket meets with 150-200 startups each year, in the normal course of doing business here in Chicago, or via my FireStarter Fund inv...
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Lesson #131: How to Design a Logo & Tagline
Your company's logo and tagline are often the first visual experience a person has with your brand and company. And, you always wan...
Monday, December 3, 2012
Lesson #130: Driving Sales Requires Driving Key Metrics
Many startup CEOs think "if we build it (a sales team), they will come (customers/profits/success)". Which is largely true, e...
Monday, November 26, 2012
Lesson #129: "Productize" Your Business for Maximum Efficiency
In the startup world, "customized solutions" really makes investors nervous, as customized typically means: (i) lots of human ...
Monday, November 19, 2012
Lesson #128: Try to Kill Your Startup Before You Start
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of sitting on an investor panel with Joe Dwyer, a partner at OCA Ventures , a good colleague of mi...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Lesson #127: How to Screen Salesperson Candidates
Back in Lesson #35, we talked about How to Read Resumes and Screen Employee Candidates overall, so I am not going to repeat those point...
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Lesson #126: What Startups Need to Secure a Bank Loan
Back in Lesson #49, I talked about How to Get a Bank Loan . And, as you remember, I was quite bearish on the prospects of early-stage...
Monday, October 29, 2012
Lesson #125: How to Bootstrap Your Startup
Sourcing capital for your startup is never easy, especially when you are pre-product completion and before the proof-of-concept the trad...
Monday, October 22, 2012
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[INFOGRAPHIC] Key Strategic Buyers, Investors or Partners by Digital Vertical
A while back, I shared an infographic on key sources of digital investment capital from Luma Partners. That infographic included a list of...
Monday, October 15, 2012
Lesson #124: Vesting of Founder's Stock
Founders of a startup are frequently surprised when venture capital firms or other investors ask for vesting provisions to be placed on ...
Monday, October 8, 2012
State of the Internet: 2012
In case you have not seen the recently-published "State of the Internet: 2012" report by Henry Blodget at Business Insider , it i...
Monday, October 1, 2012
Lesson #123: Crowdfunding Details Starting to Emerge
Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting on a crowdfunding panel with Sherwood ("Woodie") Neiss , a serial entrepreneur and on...
Monday, September 24, 2012
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[NEWS] George Deeb Named to Crain's Chicago Tech 50
Today, Crains Chicago released its Crain's Tech 50 list of people that are making a difference in Chicago's startup tech community....
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Lesson #122: Setting Key Milestones for Your Startup
Don't launch your startup trying to build a "Rolls Royce" with all the bells and whistles out of the gate. Why not?? Fir...
Monday, September 10, 2012
Lesson #121: Designing an Omni-Channel Business
Today’s consumers are more tech-savvy, seek more value and seek it through more channels than ever before. Therefore, you n eed a cons...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Lesson #120: Plan Ahead for Proof-of-Concept Marketing
It is a sad, but familiar, story in startup land. An entrepreneur raises a limited amount of funds, plows it entirely into building out...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Lesson #119: How to Screen Venture Capitalists
Last year, I shared my definitive checklist for startup success , which included the things you needed to accomplish before approaching ...
Monday, August 20, 2012
Chicago's Best Lawyers for Startups
Getting a good startup lawyer right from the beginning, can often be the difference between "off to the races" and "oops, why...
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