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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

But sometimes circumstances align and a budding entrepreneur just knows that the time is right to make the leap. For these LivePlan users, the big break came in March when they finished in the top 5 of the 2012 Miller Coors Urban Entrepreneurs Series, a national business plan competition that has awarded over $1.7

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Best of Breed

thebarefootvc

Larger companies such as IBM and SAP that had enterprise-wide deployments would offer some solutions around these pain points, but entrepreneurs claimed that these were not sufficient, and that the emergence of the Web and server technology made some of the legacy software inefficient, inadequate and obsolete.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. As for #3. I agree completely. Examples here.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #16: The importance of reference checking

Austin Startup

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

I know many entrepreneurs who feel that VCs have played them, gamed them, deceived them, or bullshitted them. But this doesn’t only happen to entrepreneurs. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. VCs play this game with VCs all the time.

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The Lightspeed Batphone?—?Welcome Brian Kasser and Meredith Kendall

Lightspeed Venture Partners

At Lightspeed we invest in the entrepreneur and the first thing we do is install a Batphone. What I mean is we strive to be the entrepreneur’s first call. And the importance of not just thinking like an entrepreneur, but rolling up our sleeves and being an entrepreneur — to be builders of great companies with great founders.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Advisory Board. Carpe Diem.