Damir Perge's Blog: Entrepreneur Insights from the Trenches, page 2

The Many Secrets to Raising Money for Your Startup or Growing Business

Hey, Damir, can you help me raise the capital for my cool startup, I am often asked. Because of my venture capital background, entrepreneurs either ask to me to invest and/or help raise their next round of capital for their startups or growing businesses. Most startup entrepreneurs dont fully understanding the framework, processes, time and money associated with raising capital.

Over the last seven months, I wrote several entrepreneur articles that deal with equity dilution, the mathematics...

The Friction of Disruption: Trigger Points for Building Billion Dollar Startups

Wherever there is friction, there lies an opportunity to build a billion dollar startup.When you want to generate new ideas for your business or ideate new startup concepts, you can trigger the innovation within your entrepreneur mind by letting your environment inspire you.The concept of friction is one such powerful trigger mechanism.[1]

Any high school physics class teaches the intricacies of friction. Everybody understands the concept of friction intuitively but what you learn in physics...

Entreprenetics: The Problems of Positive Thinking

Our world is a complex system with trillions of interactions playing out every day between all members of the planet. However, you can simplify this non-linear system by thinking everything in terms of either positive or negative energy.

Whether your mind thinks in a positive or negative direction at any given moment is up to you. You get to choose the positive or negative direction of your own psychological spectrum. Your environment may not be predictable but you can control the mental stat...

Entreprenetics: The Sexiness of ���Effortlessness���

Sometimes when you try too hard, really hard, it gets you nowhere. Of course, Ive been on the opposite side of the effort spectrum, where trying hard, really hard, gets you anywhere you want. Sometimes trying hard is a must, sometimes you get no resultsand worst of all, it can yield mediocre results. I learned this entrepreneur principle from my uncle, Michael Radojevich. He made entrepreneurship look effortless.

Getting no results is better than mediocre results because when something is not...

Negapital: The Startup���s Ideal Funding Fantasy

When you take a course in thermodynamics, one of the first things you learn is the concept of ideal state. Ideal state is when you make certain assumptions, regarding an energy model, as the ideal conditions for reference. I'm not giving a thermo lesson today because I'd rather talk about the greatest startup fantasy of allthe ideal fantasy of negapital.

When you have invested into as many entrepreneurs as I have, you see a pattern regarding negapital. Entrepreneurs come to investors for capi...

Entreprenetics: The Negative Side of Positive Thinking

Our world is a complex system with trillions of interactions playing out every day between all members of the planet. However, you can simplify this non-linear system by thinking everything in terms of either positive or negative energy.

Whether your mind thinks in a positive or negative direction at any given moment is up to you. You get to choose the positive or negative direction of your own psychological spectrum. Your environment may not be predictable but you can control the mental stat...

The Friction of Disruption: Trigger Points for Building Billion Dollar Startups

Wherever there is friction, there lies an opportunity to build a billion dollar startup.��When you want to generate new ideas for your business or ideate new startup concepts, you can trigger the innovation within your entrepreneur mind by letting your environment inspire you.��The concept of friction is one such powerful trigger mechanism.��[1]

Any high school physics class teaches the intricacies of friction. Everybody understands the concept of friction intuitively but what you learn in ph...

Negapital: The Startup’s Ideal Funding Fantasy

When you take a course in thermodynamics, one of the first things you learn is the concept of ideal state. Ideal state is when you make certain assumptions, regarding an energy model, as the ideal conditions for reference. I'm not giving a thermo lesson today because I'd rather talk about the greatest startup fantasy of all—the ideal fantasy of negapital.

When you have invested into as many entrepreneurs as I have, you see a pattern regarding negapital. Entrepreneurs come to investors for capi...

The Friction of Disruption: Trigger Points for Building Billion Dollar Startups

Wherever there is friction, there lies an opportunity to build a billion dollar startup.When you want to generate new ideas for your business or ideate new startup concepts, you can trigger the innovation within your entrepreneur mind by letting your environment inspire you.The concept of friction is one such powerful trigger mechanism.[1]

Any high school physics class teaches the intricacies of friction. Everybody understands the concept of friction intuitively but what you learn in physics i...

Leanpreneur: Speeding Your Business into the Stractical Zone

When I was younger, quickness and speed were important in my soccer game. Speed was not my forte but quickness more then compensated. I used quickness and technical skill to get around defenders. I was not the fastest athlete in a 100-yard sprint, nor even a 40-yard sprint, but the first 5, 10, 15 or even 30 yards—I owned those yards. Applying quickness and speed to your business is a game changer.

The cheetah, my favorite animal, displays both quickness and speed. But although a cheetah can g...