Andrew Gunderman's Business Beacon
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The only skills that actually matters are the ones that contribute directly to revenue generation. Everything else is just checking boxes.
Nobody buys companies that don't have repeatable models of business. Business is all about building repeatable models.
Startup advice is often like a religion. From my perspective, here are some of the things it gets wrong
The actionable end-to-end guide on how to run a legitimate fundraising process
Chicago has a relatively solid venture capital and angel investment ecosystem. Here, I show off some of the most active names.
Don't talk to other elites about how to fix the early stage startup ecosystem - talk to the early stage founders themselves.
Raising venture capital versus bootstrapping are two different models of building businesses, but the choice can be make or break.
Advice is a weird thing. Sometimes you should listen, other times you shouldn't. But the only way to discover which is which is by taking action on the advice.