Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. They are becoming the new early adopters.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 4, 2018

It was at that time that I realized my desire to become an entrepreneur, in creating a way to help people grow and expand in life. I’m not being arrogant, I’m just helping people break through the nonsense that we’ve been taught, actually the stuff I used to teach from 1980 to 1996, and to get a deeper grasp on reality.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

We were named “Best Bossy Babes” of 2015 by The Austin Chronicle, Tribeza’s Top 10 to Watch in 2016 and we were selected by The White House to attend the United State of Women Summit in June 2016 for our work in Texas.” It was created in 1996 by 12 concerned mothers raising adolescent girls in Austin, Texas. GEN Austin Who?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Share Being an entrepreneur is the road rarely traveled. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they got into entrepreneurship. #1 I decided to become an entrepreneur because I was not fulfilled working for others. As an entrepreneur, you need to make things happen and you’re judged on results.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2019

Each year, around 627,000 businesses start up in the United States. And with millennials now outnumbering baby boomers, a large portion of entrepreneurs are in that age range. While many people erroneously think that millennial entrepreneurs mean any young person, millennials are those born between 1981 and 1996.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

securities regulators, investors, and entrepreneurs are (1) the steadily increasing absolute size of the offerings itself; and (2) whether or not the companies raising the public market capital are U.S. And this isn’t just a venture capital problem—this is a major problem for the American entrepreneur—since 1991, 47% of all U.S.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing. which happen to all be venture?backed jobs today. Most importantly, the absence of U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. That’s the good news. We think so.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 26, 2009

But I was a student and buying machines in 1996 was still expensive. The bit flipped — I went from being a hacker, to being an entrepreneur. But, I knew nothing about starting a company and I knew even less about what it meant to start a company in the United States. Entrepreneurship I. Entrepreneurship II.

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aweissman.com

OCTOBER 21, 2016

This the building that houses the offices of the executive branch of the United States government. As a venture investor, one obviously gets the opportunity to back entrepreneurs - people - and different firms place different levels of emphasis on people, ideas, stage, and other things. Then inside, there are. It’s just people.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. I’ve been an entrepreneur for almost as long as I can remember. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996.

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