A new summer season, a new opportunity turned out to be very true. Apart from “doing my own thing”, I also look for other networks and groups to get deal flow from and add some value to the startups. Late February I met the founders of the 7write team while they were preparing their pitch in Amsterdam’s accelerator program Startup Bootcamp (SBC). Ordinarily not something that turns heads, but...
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Although we all want to focus on driving and growing the business, unfortunately we all get distracted from time to time by unwanted, annoying, unneeded attention like claims and lawsuits. Sometimes I think it is a growing pain, a rite of passage if you like, all entrepreneurs need to go through every now and again. I recently had one via one of my startups. Thought I’d share part of the fun…....
read moreWhat’s the best thing about being successful? Some people might argue that boasting about it is a sweet side effect of success. Sure, I think you are entitled to some form of glory after having achieved something. It is however a fine line between gloating & enjoying the taste of success and being perceived as boasting, arrogant and obnoxious. Then again, never by shy or coy either. I...
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New Year resolutions! Do they make sense? Do we actually put any stock into them, and perhaps more important do we limit resolutions to the personal life of also to the business life? Think the difference between the personal and business life is we call it “strategy” when we think it is business. But, see sometimes a fair bit of companies quite relaxed when it comes to strategy. Is that a bad...
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One of the things we love to hate is the paperwork. Finding the opportunity or investor and coming to an understanding is one thing, sealing the deal is a completely different story altogether. Before the lawyers and notaries can pass the paperwork as “done and dusted” all the proverbial i’s need to be dotted and t’s need to be crossed. Reason I want to emphasize this is because this...
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