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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Will New "Excubator" Model Increase Startup Success Rates?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/26/2014Over the last five years, Red Rocket has consulted or mentored over 500 startups. But, unfortunately, most of these companies have had the ...
Monday, March 24, 2014
How to Design a Recurring Revenue Model That Will Attract Capital
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/24/2014One of the first things that a venture capitalist looks for in assessing an investment opportunity is the revenue model of the business. Mor...
Lesson #173: Corporate Venture Capital Funds, Accelerators & Incubators
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/24/2014With the explosion of corporate-backed venture capital funds, accelerators and incubators in the last couple years, I think the big comp...
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Comparing Equity vs. Debt vs. Convertibles for Startup Financings
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/19/2014Entrepreneurs are not always aware of the various financing structures that may be available to them when raising new capital to finance the...
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Lesson #172: Don't Finalize Your Tech Development Plan, Until You Involve Marketing
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/18/2014Most startups get a great new idea, and their immediate instinct to start coding away on building that product with their very limited b...
Monday, March 17, 2014
Growth vs. Profit? What Should Rising Startups Focus on First?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/17/2014This really is not a simple question to answer. There are so many nuances that go into assessing the right answer: What is going on with t...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
The Top 3 Mistakes Startups Make When Approaching Investors
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/12/2014I can’t tell you how many entrepreneurs first approach investors, either at the wrong time, in the wrong way or in the wrong format. Let’s ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Lesson #171: The Basics of B2B Marketing
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/11/2014The Red Rocket Blog has detailed many how-to lessons about marketing for B2C companies, and driving sales teams and strategies for B2B co...
Friday, March 7, 2014
Does Your Team Have the Right Stuff to Attract Venture Capital?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/07/2014Having a great, defensible business idea in a scalable market is only part of the puzzle to attracting venture capital. A more important par...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
What is Better for Startups? In-House Teams or Outsourcing?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/06/2014Last summer, we introduced StartUp Beat readers to Ensemble’s ‘startup excubator’ model for ‘do-it-for-me’ entrepreneurs. In the last six m...
Saturday, March 1, 2014
Lesson #170: What's More Important? Your Product or Proof-of-Concept?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014I have had the luxury of meeting over 500 startups at Red Rocket over the last three years. And, typically, most of them approach me at...
Lesson #169: Budget for Startup Marketing from Day One
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014I 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...
Lesson #168: Start Thinking Globally Now -- 3.5BN People Are Waiting!!
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014In 2013, Cisco forecasted how large the world's Internet-using population would be by the year 2017. The data was quite staggering...
Lesson #167: The Unlucky 13 Reasons Startups Fail
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014During my tenure at Red Rocket, I have had exposure to over 500 startups in the last few years. I have seen really good startups and re...
Lesson #166: Is Entrepreneurship Learned, or Wired Into Your DNA?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014The age old question is whether or not good entrepreneurs are born that way, or whether such entrepreneurial skillsets can be learned. ...
Lesson #165: The 4 Types of Entrepreneurs? Which Type Are You?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014The other day I read an interesting book called “ Entrepreneurial DNA ” by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global , an operating partn...
Lesson #164: Is Your Startup Building a "Vitamin" or a "Pain Killer"?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014The other day I heard a great entrepreneurial panel discussion, including Mahendra Vora, the founder of Intelliseek (sold to Nielsen) an...
Lesson #163: Should a Startup Offer Employee Benefits?
Posted By: George Deeb - 3/01/2014In years past, companies of all shapes and sizes needed to offer a good employee benefits program, with which to attract the best candid...
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