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Profiles on 2017 Boulder City Council Candidates

Feld Thoughts

On October 19th, Engage Boulder is hosting a breakfast with me from 7:30am to 9:30am to discuss the past, present, and future of Boulder. I’ve lived and worked here since 1995 so I’ve seen, and be involved in, a lot of the evolution of our city over this period of time.

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[Review] The E-Myth Revisited

YoungUpstarts

Written by Michael Gerber – “The World’s #1 Small Business Guru” – its key takeaways are beautifully presented in the form of a compelling narrative involving the author and a small business owner named Sarah. Few books resonate with me as much as “ The E-Myth Revisited ” does.

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The Importance of Women in Tech

Austin Startup

The next semester, I went to a seminar sponsored by the organization Lean In when during a power point presentation I learned that less tan 18% of CS students were female. 1, 1995, pp. Several times, I would count the female students who showed up that day and I typically counted 5 or 6 students including myself. Larson, Erik.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

See the presentation here.). Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. However its focus was nuclear weapons – not something you wanted to be spinning out. That has changed in the last few years.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. They taught you about customers, markets and profits.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Tools and Resources to Help You Write Your Business Plan

Up and Running

Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . This site started in 1995 and has been growing ever since, with a lot of pruning and paring to keep it fresh and relevant. How to get funding. How to pitch to investors.