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The Care And Feeding Of A Startup

YoungUpstarts

Facts: A startup does not necessarily have to begin with an exit strategy in mind. A startup is more like Typo Keyboards, which recently engaged ISBX as its software engineering team to help it grow rapidly enough to fill an urgent market demand for Appleā€™s iPhone 6 buyers. What is a Startup? Startups play in a bigger field.

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What Do Angels Want?

ReadWriteStart

In 1998, before they even incorporated, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were trying to present their concept to early-stage, or "angel" investors, with limited success. Angel investors want to know the true size of the market, revenue potential, barriers to entry and competitive landscape. What's your end game?

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Probable and Improbable Lobbying Wins: The 1,000-stockholder Rule

Gust

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion.

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Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

To get into the property market you have to get loans of hundreds of thousands of dollars. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.