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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

“I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So

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Episode 42: Office Products and Niche Focusing with Adam Smith and Jonathan Domsky

Mike Michalowicz

Jonathan Domsky (right) is co-founder and president of Kidorable. Jonathan leads the company’s sales and operations (his wife and cofounder, Liping, is the creative force behind Kidorable’s success). Jonathan leads the company’s sales and operations (his wife and cofounder, Liping, is the creative force behind Kidorable’s success).

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

The challenge here is that founders – having an easy time raising their seed rounds and maybe Series A – can be lulled into thinking that each subsequent round will be just as easy. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). It’s a pretty steep drop-off rate.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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The Philanthropic Efforts Of James Dondero

YoungUpstarts

As the co-founder and president of Highland Capital Management, James Dondero made sure that the company he built will include charitable giving as one of its missions right from the very beginning. James Dondero has lived in Dallas since 1994. So he joined forces with a few key people to maximize the impact of his charitable giving.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. 1994 – present. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner). Average Angel Returns Over Time.