Danish-born, New York-based serial entrepreneur. Co-founder of Timeshifter, Mental Workout, Trunk Archive (acquired), Ascio Technologies (acquired) & Speednames (acquired). Spending ~3 hours/week to mentor/support entrepreneurs. http://www.mickey.dk
Efter at have boet i New York i 10+ år har jeg opbygget en masse erfaring om det amerikanske marked. Brug mig som sparringspartner og undgå de typiske faldgrupper.
As a serial entrepreneur with significant experience in business/product development, PR/marketing, and fundraising, I can help you with most challenges impacting your startup.
You should check out the lecture on 'How to Raise Money' by Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway, Parker Conrad: http://startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec09/
If you company is relatively new and not yet exposed to a lot of people, change it for whatever reason you have. However, if your name is already a "brand" to an important group of people be very careful. Even if your name is narrow and doesn't "cover" all your offerings, or if you have come up with a much "better" name, it's expensive to change it and can ultimately alienate existing customers and stakeholders. I always advise fellow entrepreneurs to spend a significant amount of time upfront, before launching their business, and then never look back.
If you're in a rush, launch your campaign asap. The closer to Christmas you get, the less attention people will direct at crowdfunding opportunities. If you are not in a rush, I would launch your campaign between March and July - there seems to be more activity during this period. Of course, my advice also depends on your product. If it's relevant for this seasonality (e.g. New Year's resolutions), the timing couldn't be better. Think about how that can possibly be leveraged.
I would call hotel managers directly. Pitch them why they should spend 10 minutes with you on the phone, while you fill out their answers manually. If you already know some hotel managers, ask them to introduce you to a few more. Give them something in return like a free subscription to your new, upcoming service (if relevant) or a free iPod. Forget about requesting feedback via social networks - it's difficult to get the attention of strangers for something like this, and you will never learn the nuances unless you're in a conversation with them. Personal relationships works better in this case. My 2 cents.
Mickey is a enrolling initiator and commited to and successful in getting things done.
His blazing strategic, conceptual and communicative talent combined with his never-stopping-and-ever-going mindset will make everything he touches become big and meaningful. The best partner I've ever had.
Mickey is not only brilliant and creative and industrious, he is perhaps the most fun and pleasant person I have ever had the pleasure of working with!
Mickey is a human locomotive, energizing anything and anybody around him.
Mickey Beyer-Clausen is an extraordinary business visionary. I have been consistently impressed with his solid sense of purpose, his creative vision and his ability to deliver.
Every few years, you meet someone that is incredibly ambitious, creative, productive, generous, and child-like in their enthusiasm. Mickey is the rare person with this optimal matrix of strengths. He thinks big and his vitality is contagious. But more importantly, he is able to translate visionary ideas into concrete projects that quickly come to fruition. Under Mickey's leadership, a style that supports autonomy and innovation, we finished the rough draft of a new web-based platform in less than a week. In that same week, we became close friends.
Without hesitation, I would alter my schedule and priorities to collaborate again. I suspect we will be working and playing for the remainder of my years. In order to keep his wizardry to myself, part of me hopes that everyone ignores this recommendation.
Mickey is a fantastic partner for any person or business interested in helping people by reinventing the delivery of psychology. His dedication to this cause is unfailing and is backed up by his enormous energy and incredible drive. Mickey cannot help but bring out the good in any situation, which when combined with the results he achieves, makes him a unique and sure fire shortcut to success.
I can strongly recommend Mickey beeing a driving personality with a lot of personal power and innovative skills. Working with Mickey brings new solutions and a row of business oppertunities.
Mickey has strategic and innovative power. He’s a businessman who beliefs that the world can be a better place and he’s willing to work for it. If all people had Mickey’s social consciousness and ability to get things done the world actually would be at better place to live. Working with Mickey Beyer-Clausen in the context of Happiness foundation, has been fantastic and I would recommend working with him to anyone.
Mickey Beyer Clausen is a leading entrepreneur and business professional with many exciting ventures behind him and in the future pipeline. Few people master the special skills it takes to catch, nuture and scale new ideas and opportunities at a massive scale, but Mickey has refined these skills and made them his own brand. I will highly recommend anyone to work with Mickey - he is great in the prologue and infancy of any business and is a great inspiratior and facilitator to anyone aspiring to make a difference in a cluttered world.
Working with Mickey Beyer-Clausen in the context of Happiness foundation, has been nothing but a pleasure. He has been a charismatic and inspirational leader, moving a vast number of people to make a difference in - not only in the lives of others - but their own as well.
Mickeys unique visionary insight and entrepreneurial spirit makes him one of the top leading edge surfers of the future!
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