Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Make Sure to Research Before Choosing Crowdfunding
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/27/2013As a quick history lesson, before the JOBS ACT was passed in 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission limited private company investment...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Top 4 Traits VC's Desire in Startup Founders
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/26/2013Having a great, defensible business idea in a scalable market is only part of the puzzle to attracting venture capital. A more important pa...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
How to Calculate Equity Split Between Co-Founders in a Startup
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/20/2013There are a lot of variables that go into calculating a fair equity split for a startup team. These key factors must consider each employee’...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
What Type of Entrepreneur Are You?
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/19/2013The other day I read an interesting book called Entrepreneurial DNA , by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global, an operating partner to ve...
Chicago's Startup Scene Is On Fire
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/19/2013When I started iExplore in 1999, Chicago was jokingly referred to as a “flyover city”, as the big venture funds in Boston or Silicon Val...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Try to Kill Your Startup, Before You Start
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/13/2013Earlier this year, I was sitting on a venture capital panel with Joe Dwyer of OCA Ventures, who made a very interesting comment. He was cou...
Monday, November 11, 2013
Lesson #160: Don't Be Overly Infatuated With Your Own Startup Idea
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/11/2013Back in Lesson #50, we talked about the importance of being passionate about what you are building at your startup . And, that passion ...
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
If You Build It, They May Not Come. Budget Ahead for Startup Marketing.
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/06/2013I am not sure how many of you remember the 1989 film, Field of Dreams , starring Kevin Costner, who plays a farmer who builds a baseball fie...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Why Startups Run Out of Money Too Fast--And How Excubators Solve The Problem
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/05/2013Over the last five years, Red Rocket Ventures has consulted or mentored more than 500 startups -- nearly all of them suffering from the same...
Monday, November 4, 2013
[NEWS] Red Rocket's "101 Startup Lessons"--Now a Downloadable eBook
Posted By: George Deeb - 11/04/2013Red Rocket started writing its " 101 Startup Lessons--An Entrepreneur's Handbook " back in March 2011. Over two yea...