How to Create a Powerful Pitch in One Sentence
This article was originally posted at https://lunarmobiscuit.com The more I work with entrepreneurs, the more I realize how the skills required to succeed as an entrepreneur are not taught in schools. One of those skills is brevity. Specifically, we are are not taught how to edit our thoughts down in size. We are rewarded in school […]
The Key To Winning Funding For Your Startup
This article originally appeared https://lunarmobiscuit.com. The reality of funding is that very few startups receive any funding from Angel investors or venture capitalists. Each year, over 500,000 companies are started in the United States. Of these, venture capitalists invest in fewer than 1,000 per year, and Angels and Angel Group in roughly another 30,000 startups. What […]
How to Really Reach Out to an Investor (And Not Waste Their Time)
This article was written by Luni Libes and originally posted at https://lunarmobiscuit.com. Putting yourself in the other person’s shoes is sometimes hard, especially when you are a first-time entrepreneur and you are reaching out to an investor. Here are a few tips to help: 1- Wasting time. If your words make you sound like you’ll be a waste of […]
After Growing Seven Companies Here’s a Harsh Reality Every Entrepreneur Should Know About Success
Talk to enough entrepreneurs over enough years, and some patterns get repeated over and over and over again. One of the most prominent is the expectation of success. Not just the expectation of overall success, but the expectation that the current plan is going to work as planned. It’s not. I grown seven startups of my […]
Social Enterprise vs Non-Profit – Dispelling the Myths that Still Exist
Many of us still think that social enterprise is synonymous with nonprofit, but that simply isn’t the case. There are many key differences between the two, and several myths still exist about the comparison between both. We asked one of the country’s leading experts on social enterprise, Luni Libes to share his thoughts on these […]
Why Great Businesses Start with Niche Market Ideas
I love an inspiring grand vision. As the applications roll in for Fledge (accelerator), quite a few are big, audacious, grand plans. The problem is that startups don’t have the resources to make those visions a reality, at least not within a year or two or three. The bigger problem is that most first-time entrepreneurs […]
How to Know Which Type of Investment to Seek For Early Stage Startups
Should you bootstrap your company or seek outside investors through friends and family, grants, incubators, angels, or venture capital?
