Comments on: Beware The Consultant

By: Consultant

Consultant — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:58:09 +0000

Been breathing your own exhaust too long.

I’ve done tech marketing and PR consulting for 20+ years – many clients with multi-year and (entrepreneurial) multi-business relationships. From billion-dollar firms down to the micro-startup. All depends on what you bring to the table.

I’ve learned to avoid prospects with the attitudes expressed in this article. They know everything – just ask them. It’s called arrogance.

Works out better that way – they only get the relationships that make their attitudes into self-fulfilling prophecies.

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By: Luis Rivera

Luis Rivera — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:43:34 +0000

Lets hope more advisors that currently lack the second d start embracing change. As you definitely know from your experience at TMP many entrepreneurs can clearly leverage on the right support, but this requires an alignment of objectives

By: Uncle Saul

Uncle Saul — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:14:36 +0000

Luis,

Glad to hear it! I am flattered that you posted parts of my article on your blog.

Consultants that share in the rewards they help to generate are exactly the type of value added addVisors startups need.

Keep up the good work.

Uncle Saul

By: Luis Rivera

Luis Rivera — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:34:31 +0000

Just wanted to let you know that after a 2min meeting we decided to post extracts of your article on the blog of our consulting Firm

http://blog.okuriventures.com/2009/04/ojo-consultores.html

Thanks

By: Luis Rivera

Luis Rivera — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:19:04 +0000

Very interesting article, at my Firm we share many of your insights, starting by performance based compensation (often linked to sweat equity). I guess not all “consultants” are equal afterall

By: Olivier

Olivier — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:32:02 +0000

Interesting !

I would add two basic fact, that are worth to remind : a consultant never execute, he just give advices. And the consequence is that they are not responsible at all of the execution result.

For an entrepreneur, it is sometimes confortable to rely on someone else thoughts when you are not sure. But at the end, it’s your decision, your execution, you are the responsible.

My own experience is quite different, we worked with consultant, but before raising funds. We had a product generating revenue, without understanding why it worked (hard problem, trust me…), and they helped us understanding our positionning. And a year later, they helped us raising funds, proving this positionning was not that bad