ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

500 Startups founder and entrepreneur Dave McClure created this model as a way for growth hackers to optimize the speed of their sales and marketing efforts in generating results. Don’t cast your net too far and wide. Use qualitative customer surveys and gather Net Promoter Score feedback to understand user intent and friction.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Apparently, the technique worked as the deal is said to net everyone at Color, including investors, a return on the initial funding. It was started by serial entrepreneurs Nguyen and Peter Pham, but quickly unraveled over the next couple of years. Those apps were then abandoned after he showed them off. Yes, we know, it seems crazy.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Paul Bianco, CEO of Graphite Financial *, says, “Entrepreneurs are characteristically optimistic by nature, and often present their board best-case-scenario budgets and projections. I encourage entrepreneurs to correct course with a re-forecast early and often. Entrepreneur Jeff Magnusson provides a sample agile budgeting workbook.

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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. John Imlay of MSA occasionally took me on road shows with analysts to talk about his new acquisition Peachtree Software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart. Others will, too.

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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. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. Tags: entrepreneur startup angel investors flock of angels. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? years in LA (early 90’s) many of my friends left to start companies in Silicon Valley. Can’t hurt.&#.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

But, getting in the doors of a Sand Hill Road VC in Silicon Valley can be an incredibly difficult undertaking. The Andreesen Horowitz blog is the work of the famous VC firm’s partners and covers all things software in Silicon Valley and beyond. Don’t miss out on their great podcast! Bothsides of the Table. Sam Altman.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

They might not be well-known names in the US, but the continent has many iconic entrepreneurs and investors whose stories can tell us a lot about success in business, such as Jason Njoku , Mzi Khumalo and Peter Munga. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face. Believe in yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She actually IS the prototypical entrepreneur. But Tracy did what entrepreneurs do. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 26, 2011

In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so a specific education level is at least irrelevant. At any rate, I had trouble thinking of famous entrepreneurs with an MBA. What’s different about the entrepreneurial environment? Marty Zwilling.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Salary 279

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 6, 2024

Through reframing failure as a natural part of the entrepreneurial journey, Amy inspires aspiring entrepreneurs to navigate challenges with resilience and optimism, unlocking their full potential in today’s dynamic business landscape. You do not bet your entire net worth on this new company that may not work.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

It also puts another chink in the armor of the meme that monster internet companies can only be built in Silicon Valley (LivingSocial, Kayak, Gilt Groupe, CSN Stores, et al doing damage here too). How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). 2010 Gross Profit: $280M.

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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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Southern California Angel Investor Early Stage Silicon Valley 267

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“[The] initial funds that an entrepreneur can rustle up in $10,000 and $20,000 increments from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, college roommates, elementary school friends to whom the entrepreneur can appeal. People who don’t have family and friends of means are out of luck.”

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Technical Review America Government Silicon Valley 28

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

Coming out of Silicon Valley and the tech world, I was a complete novice on how policy gets made. Developers make their profit off the difference between the cost of the land and the net profit on the houses. For entrepreneurs, understanding why people dedicate their lives to working for non-profits is hard to fathom.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

And world-class entrepreneurs never quit. How founders cope with startup challenges was the focus of today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Jessica Mah started InDinero in 2010 to help entrepreneurs with their accounting and tax needs after going through the same challenges with her own businesses. Jessica Mah.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Customer Development 120

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? I think the absolute best reading on this subject is a book called Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian. And what were they doing beforehand?

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 68

Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. Alex is a successful serial entrepreneur –with the same drive and energy of many we have known here in Silicon Valley, but different. “How to write a business plan” is as obsolete for Main Street as it is for Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. A rounds back then seemed to be anywhere from $2-3 million (LA or NYC) or up to $5 million in Silicon Valley. $5 Why the latter? and there''s always a but]. I saw this myself a few times in a row. My personal definition?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

From 1970 to 2009, nearly all new net job creation (44m jobs) came from young companies (not small, and not large, but young). • We’re not just focused on NY/Boston/Silicon Valley. All of our regional leaders are serial entrepreneurs who are thinking about giving back. It was a “Ready-Shoot-Aim” launch. There are 1.4m-1.6m

America 144

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The main drivers, from our viewpoint, are: Many tech entrepreneurs no longer view venture capital as an inevitability in their growth path, and have grown skeptical of the traditional “growth at all costs” mindset found in many startup circles; and An increasing number of VCs are growing comfortable with LLCs. But not all VCs think that way.

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Delaware LLC Startup Silicon Valley 48

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

While we can’t be certain how many of these applicants actually even fit the program criteria, the number is an encouraging sign that the region’s startup ecosystems have been churning out a decent pipeline of startup entrepreneurs. ” The surge of startups from the region has also been witnessed by other industry observers.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2. Many of those went back to doing other things.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2011

Wong, a serial entrepreneur, also founded Linknet Solutions in 1999 and was responsible for developing Brunei’s first and largest online shopping website, www.qqestore.com. “Latest (research) suggest that people will be using more apps and less mobile browsers to browse the net. Reading Blogs On-The-Go.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

If you deliver exactly the same results at the same net cost to the customer via a SaaS product, you may get a tech multiple 10X higher. I’m aware of a sophisticated venture investor asking an entrepreneur about his CAC, and he had no answer. You probably can’t answer that with clarity until you have acquired 10,000 customers.

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2010

More importantly, as a parent or mentor, what should you advise young potential entrepreneurs about getting an MBA? In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so maybe the education level is irrelevant. Consider it a waste of time.

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Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Cofounder Salary 152

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

The word conjures images of twenty-something graduate students hacking code in a Silicon Valley dorm room, fueled by a steady supply of Red Bull and Ramen. In recent decades, most net job creation can be attributed to firms that have been around for five years or less. Tags: entrepreneur startup boomer business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Schramm, author of “ Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do “ If I asked you to describe the prototypical successful entrepreneur, you may share a story mythologized in our culture of a brilliant young man with an idea so good and so disruptive that he just can’t waste any time finishing college.

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Silicon Valley Forecast Venture Capital Business Plan 157

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. It is advice I give entrepreneurs often as I have written here on why most businesses should never raise VC. It’s how things are done across the country outside of Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley IP Dividend Finance 332

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

2010 Net Income: $8 million. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Gross Margin: 94% –> i.e. for every $1 of revenue Kayak only spends $0.06 paying for travel data from ITA or others (customers acquisition spend is not included in COGS). 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Author howerl.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Techventure , one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs, is back.

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Singapore Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Private Equity 174

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Theres a power struggle underway in Silicon Valley. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. link] [link] --> By JOANN S.

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

But still, the subject doesn’t always translate as well to the average entrepreneur as microeconomics does – most business people have good intuitive understandings of supply, demand, and pricing. But who knows what monetary policy is and why they should care? This is related to….

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China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

Self-employment tax is calculated on the “net earnings” from self-employment, that means your revenue less business expenses. Steven Aldrich, entrepreneur, small business advocate, and Silicon Valley veteran, joined Outright as the CEO in June of 2011. For other countries, please check your taxation laws.).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s pretty close to the one I had as an entrepreneur, which was – Pray it Will Work. I’ve spent my life at the center of innovation in Silicon Valley – doing eight startups in 21 years, and the last 15 years in academia teaching others innovation and entrepreneurship. — First, my congratulations.

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North Korea Social Media .Net Europe 252

Hunter Walker

APRIL 2, 2016

” Did you always know you wanted to move to Silicon Valley and work in tech? At that particular meeting Robin Chase was in attendance (I think she was the only woman entrepreneur) and I was in awe how she moved this idea to the product that became Zipcar.

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