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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. It is worth $3.4

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Unfortunately, Im a student in Australia so the possibility of travelling to the US isnt too feasible or affordable.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. This affects M&A activities for startups, which with the reduction of the IPO market could spell lower returns in the short-term for technology startup investors. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#. I know not everybody agrees.