Fellow entrepreneurs , let me introduce myself.

I have launched my first startup company in 1987 and since then I have founded and/or contributed to found several startup companies in the venture capital and biotechnology sectors. I have a thorough knowledge of the heights and lows of launching and managing startups. This property, totally independent, is my latest creature and its mission is to assist you on your road to success.

I have only one advice (in addition to the many suggestions you will find in this property) to offer to all you entrepreneurs out there in the world "wild" web.

My advice

Research your business idea thoroughly, plan carefully assuming that the worst will happen during execution, choose the best team you can lay your hands on (even if they are smarter or more experienced than you are!), develop effective communications tools to deliver your story to venture capitalists, and, in the event you succeed in getting funded, stick by your convictions and execute with ferocious determination!

Launching and growing new businesses is a bloody affair and you will need all the obstinacy that you are capable of. The road to success will be littered with booby-traps and land mines. Do your best to avoid them , but whatever happens, keep going! Don't stop.. if you do, you will never recover. Keep going until you reach....total failure or.. wild success. Success is inside you .. just waiting to surface. Remove all obstacles in the way .. except the family, which has to have your highest attention and priority over anything else. Don't be a fool: commercial success is not worth the pain you may inflict upon your loved ones in the process! Success is a relative term. Be wise enough to know its limits and pitfalls.

In my book, success is being able to create new jobs, enjoy what you are doing, getting thrilled in opening new markets, technologies and avenues which benefit not just you but others as well. Success is that wonderful feeling, after a hard day's work, in knowing that you have made other people happy with what you are doing.

Sounds like a lot? Not at all! It is just plain common sense. If I were to condense all the above in one phrase I would say: act and defend your business as a father/mother does with his/her children: lots of love, cool head and fierce territory defense.

Sorry that I got carried away. But this is what I truly believe to be the right recipe. Also for you.

Good luck and enjoy your visit.