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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

Ben Lamson and Sulaiman Sanni, WeDidIt cofounders. million in grants to emerging businesses since 1999. ” The competition did more than educate and put money in the bank for this otherwise bootstrapped startup. It’s never easy to leave a stable job to launch a startup. And they’re happy they did it.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

I closed down my first business last November and I am bootstrapping the second one currently. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. I would love to attend one of the Lean Start-up Workshops, but unfortunately that would be difficult for me to do so financially. Cash is tight. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #14: Selling to the “Cool Kids”

Austin Startup

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. make that fourteen years now).

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

It’s very rare that they actually successfully bootstrapped, because it’s just so hard to do if you can’t invest any money. Mr. Marc Andreessen is a co-founder and general partner of the venture capital firm, Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, Andreessen developed Mosaic and co-founded Netscape. Netscape Navigator…

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Raise Capital With The Skin You’re In: Blunt Truth from Don Charlton, CEO, The Resumator

David Teten

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I