13 Mistakes Start-ups Make

13 Mistakes Early-Stage Entrepreneurs Make
Presented by: Booker Schmidt
Executive Director, Gainesville Technology Enterprise Center

The vast majority of entrepreneurs are starting a business for the first time. For ideas, tips and guidance, they often look to others’ successes. But, they overlook important lessons that can be drawn from others’ mistakes and failures. Learn about 13 mistakes early stage entrepreneurs commonly make, including company ownership, funding, agreements and management. Learn how successful entrepreneurs do things better, steering themselves away from these missteps.

WHO IS BOOKER SCHMIDT?!

Booker Schmidt is the Executive Director of the Gainesville Technology Enterprise Center. Mr. Schmidt brings to GTEC more than 30 years of diversified entrepreneurial, legal and business consulting experience. His experience includes working with more than 128 technology startup companies throughout the U.S. and structuring, negotiating and consummating complex transactions, including venture-capital financing, strategic alliances, acquisitions and technology licenses.
In Tampa, in the 1990s, Mr. Schmidt was a highly rated attorney practicing law principally in the areas of tech startup companies, mergers & acquisitions and licensing and technology acquisitions. Mr. Schmidt also initiated and organized strategic alliances between small biotech companies and Fortune 500 corporations during most of the 1980s.
Mr. Schmidt received his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the University of Tulsa and his B.A. in Business Administration from Vanderbilt University.

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