VMware Fusion 7 Crashes on Startup

Today I discovered that Fusion may not start if you are behind an Internet proxy and Fusion is unable to check for updates, which is the default setting. Sadly, this took me about a half-hour to figure out, when I was trying to startup Fusion to get my work PC up and running. The Fusion window would start to appear and then just disappear. I deleted Fusion, re-installed it, but experienced the same results, because by default Fusion checks for updates upon starting up and I was behind an Internet proxy (corporate office). Being used to working remotely with no proxy involved, this made the situation very confusing, since when I typically go into the office, Fusion is already running.

To avoid this behavior, go to VMware Fusion > Preferences and un-check Automatically check for updates or get out from behind the internet proxy until Fusion has started.

I discovered the source of this issue in this post on the VMware Community forum.