My book is up for an award and it seems to take social media votes to win. Seems silly to ask people to vote – regardless if they read the book or not.?! Anyway, the publicity helps. See below – and Vote!. Triple Nickel Press needs your help! From Idea to Exit has been nominated [...]
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The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 11) – “Validation”
December 31, 2011 – 5:53 pm
This may conclude my blog journal of the start up experience – at least for a while. For the past month or so I have been meeting with various stakeholders to validate our purpose, solution, business model and revenue streams. Everything has been positive, but since we are something new and leveraging very new concepts [...]
The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 10) – “Break Throughs”
December 28, 2011 – 11:58 pm
It has been a very busy time since my last entry. 1. We decided on a law firm. We chose Perkins Coie to do our incorporation and founder’s agreement. They have a focus on start ups and have west coast roots. They have helped us to create a legal path with investors in mind and [...]
The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 9) – “Hard Work Continues”
December 13, 2011 – 10:05 am
Monday roles around too fast (my target day to blog). Here we are at Tuesday. We anticipate migrating from a partnership to a C corp, registered in Delaware by month’s end to take advantage of a unique investment exclusion for new start ups: (http://www.perkinscoie.com/news/pubs_detail.aspx?op=updates&publication=2896). I thought I would bullet point my challenges and to do [...]
Intern Wanted: User Experience Design
December 11, 2011 – 7:26 pm
Opportunity: Learn the pros and cons of a technology focused start up, planning for high growth and professional funding. Three seasoned professionals are the co-founders of this start up, which is based on many years of PhD level research. The company is led by a serial entrepreneur who founded TRC, Inc. in 1995, which made [...]
The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 8) – “The Curtain Is Off”
December 3, 2011 – 12:58 pm
I’ve decided it’s time to pull the curtain off this start up I’m involved with. I resisted at first, because I did not want people rushing to the site and forming opinions. Here’s why. The company’s original focus was a tool to support job professionals counsel job seekers. You could say it is a CRM [...]
The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 7) – “Preparing for Startup”
November 23, 2011 – 3:55 pm
Big post today! There is much to bring you up to date with and I’ll do so as fast as possible. We are working at a feverish pace and that’s delayed my postings. Here we go. You’ve met the co-founders, how the idea was formed and how I came on board. So the two original [...]
The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 6) – “The three of us”
November 14, 2011 – 8:32 am
To date, you’ve heard a bit from the two original co-founders. How they met and how the idea formed. Well now we’ll tell you how I came on board. I was advising companies one day a week (which, actually turned into five days a week) for a grant funded program I launched called “High Growth [...]
From Idea to Exit Winner of the USA Book News “Best Books 2011”
November 11, 2011 – 1:30 pm
Winner of the USA Book News “Best Books 2011” Award in the category of Business: Entrepreneurship and Small Business. http://www.usabooknews.com/bestbooks2012awards/bestbooks2011results.html
The Birth of a Start Up – Built In Chicago! (Part 5) – “Founders Meet”
November 10, 2011 – 7:52 am
The last entry I placed was from the primary founder of our start up – the guy with the idea. He’s a PhD living in Canada and he is referenced in this post provided by the second co-founder. He shares how the two met and decided to pursue the idea. Here we go… I actually [...]