Struggling Entreprenuer

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In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we deliver a podcast episode published earlier by Chris Benjamin, the Rogue CFO, from his Podomatic podcast series called The Rogue CFO’s Expert Guide to Launching a Startup.

The theme for this podcast is  “Dos and Don’ts for Entrepreneurs of finding investors.”

Chris describes some rules of thumb for considering the search for investors by an Entrepreneur for the small business venture–in the form of 3 “DOs” and 3 “DON’Ts.”

Chris has had years of experience in the area of finding capital and investors for the Small Business owners, especially as a part-time on-demand CFO. A good suggestion would be to get a FREE whitepaper written by Chris that deals with capitalization and funding when creating a startup from the web site of Finance for Startups at

http://www.finance4startups.com

Copyright (c) 2011, Chris Benjamin Consulting, LLC and Matrix Solutions Corporation. All rights reserved.

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In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we deliver an interview with James Weddle, a very experienced entrepreneur who has had his share of successes, as well as failures.

As you will hear in this audio episode, James is one of the founders of GroupCharger.com, an offering for different communities to manage their members.

He is also creating a focused community of Entrepreneurs to follow the LEAN Startup model–this is the project that is called Worksody.com.

He recommended the book called Running Lean by Ash Maurya.

James is also passionate about the value delivered to entrepreneurs by co-working environments. As a matter of fact, he is a premier member and an advocate for the location where this interview was conducted — Cospace in Austin, Texas.

For those who are interested in the management and value in having member communities, the beta version of the network offering at www.groupcharger.com will be available soon. You can sign up for it now at the web site.
Copyright (c) 2011, Matrix Solutions Corporation. All rights reserved.

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In this episode of The Struggling Entrepreneur, we deliver an audio narration from a blog post from A Smart Bear Blog called “WHEN YOU WANT TO QUIT BECAUSE IT’S JUST NOT WORTH IT” (the post on 28 Feburary 2011).

As you will hear in this audio narration of the blog post, for a software startup, the process of excitement and disillusionment that can cause these frustrating feelings of “throwing in the towel” is reflected in this image on the site:

 In the audio narration, during the discussion of enterprise sales negotiations, there is mention of a primer that is described as “the mosh-pit that is enterprise sales.”

Click here to go to the primer. 

The lesson learned from the personal story with the roles played by the Purchasing Manager and The Smart Bear is a difficult obstacle for the entrepreneur to overcome:

“I’m not saying that tenacity is all it takes. Just that, without it, you’ll stop. It’s so easy to stop…

And that — stopping — is how most little startups actually fail.”

Copyright (c) 2011, Matrix Solutions Corporation and A Smart Bear Blog at www.smartbear.com. All rights reserved.

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