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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. Now that my new career is in the personal finance industry, I’m helping women tame their money. When I started my company in 1996 at the age of 20 years old, I decided to name it after the family farm.

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Suggestions for Angel Investors

Feld Thoughts

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. On the eve of the graduation of the TechStars Boston 2010 class, I thought I’d weigh in with some additional advice to anyone who either is or wants to be an angel investor.

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our journey to an oversubscribed fund iii for first check enterprise

BeyondVC

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. What seemed like a big bet in early 2010 was only us pursuing our passion. Most importantly, we wanted to thank our amazing group of founders that we have had the privilege to partner with over the years.

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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

Feld Thoughts

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 19962010. Financing Entrepreneurial Companies.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. couldn’t draw a salary). I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. He always was.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. This is similar in effect to the epic 1996-2000 Internet Bubble cycle but for the expansion of the players in the pre-IPO inner bubble circle. It is intentional.