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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy

Startup Professionals Musings

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Osmosis marketing.

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Why Uber is The Revenge of the Founders

Steve Blank

— all great things when you are executing and scaling a known business model. However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). In 1995 Netscape changed the rules about going public. Board Control. The founders.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Something similar happened during a salary negotiation seminar years later. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model. I started my business with my fiancé because of our combined skills and experiences. Greene, Land Carroll & Blair PC ! #20 Image Credit: Nina Noelle Holmes. Thanks to Artur Sousa, Adopt Pets ! #28

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Another sign of how little the initial idea is worth is the numberof startups that change their plan en route. This doesnt work well.

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