Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. New England Investment Network. Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. I like the guy because he’s credited with coining the word entrepreneur. Thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to start with a request. Now look around.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 22, 2014

We have all heard about the Series A crunch in the Valley (there might actually be up to 2000 companies in the Series A pipeline right now), and perhaps there’s a Series B crunch now too. First, there will be a consolidation in the accelerator space, with the net effect of reducing the number of available spaces for start-ups.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Babak Nivi is one of the most understated, helpful & important people on the entrepreneur / startup scene in NorCal. What he (along with Naval) started with AngelList is also a very important transformation to the communications between first-time entrepreneurs & angels. But it +is+ an anti-entrepreneur stance.&#

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I will always remember his pre-speech pep talk: “Dyer, your entire net worth rides on not screwing this up.” I know many entrepreneurs who have cashed in big but aren’t showing any signs of slowing down. We just closed out in 2017 our 10-year early-stage venture fund started in 2000. I got the message. Think about that.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more. Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. Lastly, angels want to serve as mentors to the next generation of entrepreneurs. Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. approx 2004-09.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Recently several entrepreneurs in New York City got together to do just that, holding the inaugural Startup Funeral to honor the memory of three dead technology companies. In 2000 its revenues were $30 million, delivery costs $35 million and net loss $120 million.) Failure gets a lot of praise in the tech world.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . If you’d like to explore more of these concepts in-depth, I recommend 3 resources: .

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

One of the ways that young entrepreneurs run up exorbitant shipping costs that they’re forced to pass onto consumers is that they ship heavy inventory. Because of that, we recommend that entrepreneurs focus on ventures that deal with small and light items. Keep Your Inventory Light. Source Shipping Supplies Affordably.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2019

Sometimes, entrepreneurs kick-start a business agenda because they already have a personal financial back-up. For instance, if your net worth reads $10,000 and you want to embark on a small online business which would require an overall startup capital of $2000. In simple terms, they can afford to fund their business themselves.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Determined to give their customers the best software solutions, they have support structures that give the best experience to entrepreneurs. The software providers include Micro Gaming, playech.com, and Net Entertainment just to mention but a few. They provide the casino with an identity.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Believe it or not, there was a time when an aspiring entrepreneur would come up with a concept, develop a detailed business plan, prototype and refine the concept, seek a credit line from a bank, and then give it a go by bringing the concept to market. Here are the five best tools in the millennial entrepreneur’s toolbox: 1.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 21, 2017

However, that’s a cyclical dysfunction which hit notable peaks in 2000 and 2015 and which needs to be understood as an unfortunate part of a larger system which overall has been an incredibly positive force for good.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Small Business Administration’s August 2017 Small Business Quarterly Bulletin , they’ve created two out of every three net new jobs since 2014. Studer Community Institute also provides leadership training and skill-building opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

But the real asset became obvious to me at almost exactly five PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Two months after that, a French game company offered $1.5

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

The study reveals that, both on average and for all but seven years between 1977 and 2005, existing firms are net job destroyers, losing 1 million jobs net combined per year. The BDS series tracks the annual number of new businesses (startups and new locations) from 1977 to 2005, and defines startups as firms younger than one year old.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

economy created a net 22 million jobs, or 2.2 But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. Government research centers, university centers of research excellence, corporations, and venture capitalists are commonly bound to the most important element of this ecosystem, the entrepreneur. million a year.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Remember back when I said the largest (and only) website we had been paid to build netted us $250? January 2000 comes around and we were knee-deep in building eQueenstown.com. That’s a 260X increase from that first paying project. Needless to say, the three of us thought we were now, officially, and unequivocally, rich.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

But, you can be sure that as an entrepreneur, each day will be loaded with new possibilities to challenge yourself, be innovative, and learn something new. 18 months and 2000 hours later I finished coding the software and released it. That gave us the safety net we needed to feel as comfortable as possible with me leaving my job.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For a sense of the extent of how bad this problem is, a partner I know at a prominent venture capital firm estimates that of the 30+ companies that his firm has invested in since 2000, only two of them have consistently met or exceeded their financial projections. Are the entrepreneurs just not ready for prime time?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But the real asset became obvious at almost exactly 5 PM that day, when all eight stopped what they were doing and began using a tool they had licensed from a Florida company to find other Internet gamers to join them in playing intense first party shooter games over the ‘net. Two months after that, a French game company offered $1.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 8, 2011

These people are bad for you, bad for your network, and take steps to avoid them is a net positive. I'd say just about everyone in my LinkedIn network , all 2000 of them, are people who I've at least had the equivilant of a 1:1 lunch with. You've met those people. They take more than they give. 2) Get to know fewer people, better.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

So we are now very well-versed in being parents and entrepreneurs. So you might as well be tired both as a mom and as an entrepreneur." But you can't be an entrepreneur and a parent at the same time, that just it's too difficult. I mean, we support roughly 2000 employees across cities in the US.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 18, 2011

5: Entrepreneurs are the foundation of the economy Entrepreneurship is still one of America's great strengths, right? A couple of long-term studies do show decline in net start-up rates. The have bought the Scott Shane Myth that the only entrepreneurs who matter are those pursuing high growth, high potential ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. I believe this is wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 21, 2014

Every entrepreneur wants to see their business grow. Rather than casting a wide net and shooting for a market that reaches across the state or country, aim to grow strong in a tight geographical area, and later spread out from there. Then Ugg, in the early 2000′s, became a global phenomena… the proverbial overnight success.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

Compounding the IPO drought is the fact that the entire NASDAQ market has shrunk—since December 2000 the NASDAQ has contracted by 38% to approximately 1,786 companies. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing. which happen to all be venture?backed

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. My real message is that the best Angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. My real message is that the best Angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Net Worth – $34.3 Net Worth – $150 million – Twitter: @benandjerrys. Net Worth – $150 million – Twitter: @sundarpichai. Net Worth – $2.3 I think if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve got to dream big and then dream bigger.”. Net Worth – $100 billion – Twitter: @Walmart.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees.   It was sold in 2000 and today is the customer service arm of Fidelity Financial in Florida. Most of these, to an entrepreneur, seems ordinary.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

Here’s where we netted out, and here’s to adding to this post in another 25 years! According to the American entrepreneur and investor, Marc Andreessen, product-market fit can be defined as “being in a good market, with a product that can satisfy that market.” What have we learned over the past 25 years? Get Clear on Your Mission.

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