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Tim

Director, Golden Angels Investors

Interests: angel investing and coaching entrepreneurs.

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The Myth of Private Markets: Symmetry and Expectations

For most CEOs of entrepreneurial companies, selling the company is one of the most important and critical events in their lives. Selling a private company to a (usually) much larger and better-financed buyer is unbalanced and most often heavily weighted on the side of the buyer. Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2013 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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The Performance Appraisal

A big part of company growth is the alignment of purpose in an organization. As companies grow, the leader usually has to find ways to help his team maximize their effectiveness in executing the growth goals of the company -... Continue reading

Posted Jan 11, 2013 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Long term thinking -- for entrepreneurs

While it isn't always top of mind for entrepreneurs caught up in the rush of running and growing their businesses, long term thinking, including thinking about relationships, is pretty important. I attended a business presentation last week at Marquette University's... Continue reading

Posted Oct 8, 2012 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Technology versus market risk in angel investments

Many of you have seen this great post at Tech Crunch by Andy Ratleff from a couple of days ago. One of his points is that angels tend to lose money because they take on companies with high market risk... Continue reading

Posted Oct 3, 2012 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Referrals: Worth Their Weight In Gold or Passing The Buck?

It depends. If you're asking to be referred to someone, or introduced, you may want to try and understand the dynamics in a particular situation. There is a lot of power for the recipient of the right referral - a... Continue reading

Posted Jun 19, 2012 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Helping you build and grow your startup....

Helping you build and grow your startup. Marquette's Entrepreneurship graduate certificate! http://youtu.be/nxled8Rfwkw Continue reading

Posted Nov 9, 2011 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Picking Ventures: Part 2

Sometimes the dog really does eat it. And sometimes it's a big dog. Tom Perkins, in telling the Tandem Computer story says "when the first product performed as expected, the company went to $100MM very quickly." We all have heard/repeated... Continue reading

Posted Oct 4, 2011 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Picking Ventures: Part 1

Making educated guesses about which new ventures to invest in, truth be told, is a process prone to lots of error. "A venture investor who never loses isn't risking enough," said a friend of mine recently. We all can tell... Continue reading

Posted Sep 27, 2011 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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How to prepare a sales forecast for a business plan

First develop a business model. If you've been through a plan review with someone like a potential investor, think for a moment about the questions you get asked. "How did you calculate the cost of goods?" "What are your assumptions... Continue reading

Posted Jun 21, 2011 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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How should I finance my new venture?

It’s a deceptively simple question: what is the optimal way to finance a new startup? And the answer is also devilishly simple: It depends. Align Everyone’s Interests This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash... Continue reading

Posted Mar 9, 2011 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Leaving a Trail

Spend ten minutes talking to any investor in the community who sees a lot of deals and inevitably you find that the companies that've been around are largely the same. The good ones (whatever your definition is) and the not... Continue reading

Posted Mar 4, 2011 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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This is a test post

Coming soon ... Keane Consultants website Continue reading

Posted Nov 9, 2010 at Keane Consultants

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If your business sells to a quantifiable and identifiable group of business customers who are in the tens of thousands, or less, there's really no reason not to individually identify every one of them and track all of your contacts... Continue reading

Posted Oct 4, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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The Qualities of a Leader

I'm in Dublin this week and was at the Halo Business Angel Network meeting on Monday evening. They're an impressive group, kind of an association of all of the angel groups in Ireland who work together to achieve results. We... Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Choosing the right corporate form for your enterprise

Every entrepreneur should read this article on choosing the correect type of corporate form for an enterprise: http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit%2Ely%2F9S5ZEm&urlhash=t4su&_t=NUS_UNIU_SHARE-lnk&trk=NUS_UNIU_SHARE-lnk Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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People are the whole game

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come with under 100 employees. You are all the future of job growth, wealth creation and better... Continue reading

Posted May 27, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Last Time I Checked, Greed Was Not A Virtue

Here's an inspiring piece of video. If you're Gordon Gekko. Can you believe these guys? Greed is not only a virtue, apparently it's the only one. So it's ok to bash people. I know, it's reality TV, and people volunteer.... Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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A philosophy of valuations and term-sheets

Several months ago, I'd posted an article about term-sheets. Based on a lot of feedback, I've added some new comments about put rights and made more explicit my philosophy about working together with entrepreneurs to achieve mutually satisfactory results. Here's... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Mar 15, 2010

Do we really need this help?

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Entrepreneurs looking for investors know about "accredited investor" status and the myriad benefits it provides. In a nutshell, if you investors are accredited, aside from complying with many federal and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Bottom Up Market Sizing

A lot has been written about this. (Google: Bottom up market sizing). For an example written by a VC, see A Startups Guide to Market Sizing from DocStoc. (OVP Venture Partners) My own take on this is that a business... Continue reading

Posted Feb 3, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations

Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues. Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee

The Angel Capital Educational Foundation’s “Power of Angel Investing” Seminar will be coming to Milwaukee, WI on Friday, February 26th. This well-known event has been presented in most major US cities to high acclaim. If you have an interest in... Continue reading

Posted Jan 5, 2010 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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How To Change The World

Top Ten Ways To Change The World (from a new social entrepreneurship Honors Symposium, “How To Change The World,” Fall, 2009 at Marquette University) Have a big, audacious goal. Often, these are defined as the social impact you want to... Continue reading

Posted Dec 30, 2009 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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Starting Startups

So, Paul Graham is a brainiac. He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. He writes challenging essays at paulgraham.com (8 million hits it says!) that are... Continue reading

Posted Dec 14, 2009 at Startups and angels: Along the way to success

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