Posts for The Great Startup Game


Marketing’s Greatest Creation: The iPhone Cult

From The Great Startup Game
June 30, 2010 at 3:38 pm
The iPhone 4 Versus the Competition, a Review of Sorts This is a very funny video about the iPhone Cult. (Beware if you are at work that it contains some salty language.) Prepare ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital From Angel Investors: Part 1

From The Great Startup Game
June 7, 2010 at 1:49 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital from Angel Investors This is a BBC show on the Dragon's Dens from around the world. In the USA the show was called Shark's Tank.This is part 1 on ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital From Angel Investors: Part 2

From The Great Startup Game
June 7, 2010 at 1:48 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital from Angel Investors Here is part 2 on how to raise capital from angel investors. Part 3 ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital From Angel Investors: Part 3

From The Great Startup Game
June 7, 2010 at 1:47 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital from Angel Investors Here is 3rd part on how to raise capital from angel investors. Part 4 ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital From Angel Investors: Part 4

From The Great Startup Game
June 7, 2010 at 1:46 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital from Angel Investors Here is part 4 on how to raise capital from angel investors. Part 5 ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital From Angel Investors: Part 5

From The Great Startup Game
June 7, 2010 at 1:46 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital from Angel Investors Here is part 5 on how to raise capital from angel investors. Part 6 ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital From Angel Investors: Part 6

From The Great Startup Game
June 7, 2010 at 1:44 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital from Angel Investors Here is the 6th and final part on how to raise capital from angel investors. If you're struggling to get your business off ... (more)

Startup Funding: Chocolate Bonds

From The Great Startup Game
June 4, 2010 at 1:30 pm
How to Finance a Company CreativelyNo entrepreneur wants to admit that financing a company is a really tough challenge. This holds true for companies with multi-year operating ... (more)

8 Websites People Really Need to Stop Building

From The Great Startup Game
May 21, 2010 at 12:25 am
8 Websites People Need to Stop BuildingIf you run a website for startup financing you see a lot of startups over the course of a week. Every last one is convinced that it is doing ... (more)

How to Raise Startup Capital: Lessons From Deal-makers

From The Great Startup Game
March 25, 2010 at 4:49 pm
How to Raise Startup Capital: Lessons From Deal-makersFrom working with entrepreneurs since 1986, I have noticed one glaring problem most have. Most have no idea how to sell ... (more)

Raising Capital: 88 - The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money

From The Great Startup Game
March 12, 2010 at 6:44 pm
88 - The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money by British billionaire Felix DennisFelix Dennis' long-awaited 88 - The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of ... (more)

Hurt Locker: Best Picture?

From The Great Startup Game
March 8, 2010 at 4:54 am
Hurt Locker? Best Picture? Oh, come on! Give me a break.Year after year, decade after decade, the Oscar nominations committee proves that it has no idea how to rate movies. I ... (more)

Free Tony Robbins DISC Psychometric Profile

From
March 3, 2010 at 4:06 pm

Free Tony Robbins DISC Psychometric ProfileDiscover What Drives You

If you want to know the real hold-backs to your success, and how to
align with your own true personality traits

... (more)

Free Seed Series Documents

From The Great Startup Game
March 2, 2010 at 6:12 pm
Free Seed Series DocumentsIf you're looking for seed capital, you will need the right deal documentation.  You can find free samples of the seed capital documents here. These ... (more)

How to Use Creative Financing to Start Your Business

From The Great Startup Game
February 23, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Creative Financing for Startup EntrepreneursSuccessful entrepreneurs are the ones who understand how entrepreneurial finance works. Failed entrepreneurs are those who sit hoping ... (more)

Startup Junkies TV: Documentaries About Startups

From The Great Startup Game
February 18, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Startup Junkies Whether you're a startup rookie or a serial entrepreneur, you're going to enjoy this documentary series about what it takes to launch a startup successfully. Watch ... (more)

Startup Capital: How it’s Really Raised

From
February 10, 2010 at 2:52 pm

Startup Financing: How it Really Works Let’s look at the typical stages in
a successful company’s financings. We’ll start with the last and finish with the
first. Although there

... (more)

For Profit Angel Networks: Lancing the Boil

From The Great Startup Game
January 18, 2010 at 5:18 pm
Should You Have to Pay a Huge Fee to Pitch an Angel Network's Investors?The controversy over angel investor networks which charge struggling cash-strapped entrepreneurs ... (more)

10 Great Reasons to Be a Startup Specialist

From The Great Startup Game
December 14, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Are you a consultant specializing in startups? Or are you considering becoming a startup consultant?Here are ten great reasons to become a startup specialist (with all of the ... (more)

Pitch Your Great Big Idea to Richard Branson

From The Great Startup Game
December 12, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Richard Branson's Got a Big Idea?You have a great idea, in fact it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but all the investors you have talked to so far just don't get it. ... (more)

The Linkedin Nightmare

From The Great Startup Game
December 7, 2009 at 4:19 pm
The Linkedin NightmareFor some strange reason, Linkedin is the only networking site in the universe which doesn't allow users to block communications from spammers and other troublesome ... (more)

Raising Capital?: How Not to Get Scammed

From The Great Startup Game
November 12, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Startup ScamsA reader sent me a link to an interesting read on one startup's experience with a conman. iStole Your Startup: A Story of an iPhone Company Conman Read the personal ... (more)

How to Use Creative Financing to Launch and Grow Your Startup

From The Great Startup Game
September 18, 2009 at 4:36 pm
How I Learned to Stop Waiting for Investors and Start Building CompaniesIf you're finding it tough to find startup capital why not learn how those Inc 500 entrepreneurs did it? ... (more)

Angel Investors: South East

From The Great Startup Game
September 13, 2009 at 9:16 pm
The Network of Business Angels & Investors of Atlanta, GeorgiaThe Network of Business Angels & Investors (NBAI.net) is a membership group that provides a safe haven for ... (more)

Entrepreneurship: Brits Get Rich in China

From The Great Startup Game
September 13, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Brits Get Rich in ChinaIf you enjoy reality type television about entrepreneurs on the make, check out this one hour long British documentary on three British businessmen who ... (more)