Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. What I’m saying is, I’m wholly unqualified to offer startup advice. Not all startups have to reinvent the wheel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. investors.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. In April, 1996, Yahoo! million, by selling 2.6

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

The Association of Enterprise Opportunities , a national organization that advocates for micro business development, states that roughly 8,000 business loan requests are declined each weekday in the United States. The odds of a startup getting a loan from the largest banks in America aren’t favorable. Big banks favor big loans.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2013

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the Internet. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2014

Not that you’re not going to do it anyhow, just like I did, but, for the record, you know they say seven out of ten startups fail within three years, and that comes from research that was done. So there you see another business dying, but it hadn’t really died. The mythology of failure rates is greatly exaggerated, I think.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Thinking about starting a business from your home? Plenty of well-known businesses have started with simple home-based roots. For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. entrepreneurs start their business at home.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

In Bezos' words, "There was no business plan. Remember this was 1998 not 1994. This of course does not mean that the probability of any startup having Google-like success is anything but very low, but it does mean that it is far greater than the ZERO percent likelihood of success of those who don't even try. Or foresight?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

In Bezos' words, “…There was no business plan…They had a vision. Remember this was 1998 not 1994. This of course does not mean that the probability of any startup having Google-like success is anything but very low, but it does mean that it is far greater than the ZERO percent likelihood of success of those who don't even try.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A new study by CT Corporation shows that 61 percent of recent college grads want to start their own business, 45 percent believe that it is likely they will start a business, and 51 percent say starting their own business will in the long-term provide greater security than a job with an existing company.

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