ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. He currently has a 1999 strategy. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka and Uuma.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

by Thomas Smale, founder of FE International. What if there was somewhere you could go where you can be surrounded by founders just like you? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Or where you can network with established, successful founders and investors? Here are the top 10: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

This week I wrote about obsessive and competitive founders and how this forms the basis of what I look for when I invest. I had been thinking a lot about this recently because I’m often asked the question of “what I look for in an entrepreneur when I want to invest?” So I did, in fact, invest in myself.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public. I was a co-founder and co-chairman. If you are an entrepreneur, ignore the pontification and go build your business. The post The Great Internet Stock Correction of 1997, or 1999, or … appeared first on Feld Thoughts. Most have an agenda or a vested interest.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2021

The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Ryan is an entrepreneur, author, and investor. Ryan is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Out of necessity. I’ve been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. But that's no excuse to move slowly. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

In the old days, every entrepreneur planned on taking their startup public, and making it big. Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is finally up from the dead zone of the last two decades, and is now double the rate back in 1999. Startup founders don’t fit in a public company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Entrepreneurs always walk away with new relationships, knowledge, deal discussions and enthusiasm. And it’s his mantra for successful entrepreneurs, “you need to be extremely focused on the details.” Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. I’ve been to similar events with First Round Capital and True Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2011

By Uri Foox, founder of Pixafy. Uri Foox is the founder of Pixafy , a NYC-based web development and technology firm. A serial entrepreneur, Uri incorporated his first company, CGI for Me, in April 1999 when he was 14 years old. What do you do? Developers should be able to explain what they do in terms you can understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). When we started our next company, Koral, Ryan was a co-founder. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. This is part of my Startup Advice series. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The original company name was Scene on TV (going back to 1999), and I expanded into movies, and the name was also confusing to people (Scene instead of Seen). We motivate and coach entrepreneurs to be warriors for their businesses, for their families and for their communities. Thanks to Georgette Blau, On Location Tours ! #20-

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

So, I’d like to start by sharing the story of a female entrepreneur who did experience VC funding success—but still also felt the impact of the biases held by the industry. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Presently, I’m focused on two businesses that I am co-founder and CTO of. In 1999 my wife Carol Lynn and I founded Rahvalor Interactive, a creative marketing services company. Ralph Rivera.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them & entrepreneurs that run them. I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO, Startup Professionals. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I was the first social entrepreneur in the coffee world. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same. 12 – It was Just Time.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. approx 1999-07. It’s also a fast way to lose all your money. 1961- 1996.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. Stock Quotes. more in Tech. Google Inc.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Personally, Entrepreneurs fascinate me…. Targeting entrepreneurs who are at the “Start-up to Scale-up” sector. Neil Waterhouse, founder and host of multiple Aussie eBay and E-Commerce Sellers Meetup Groups, advises start-ups to focus on proven products with a track record. Nathan Huppatz – Co-founder, Costumes.com.au

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2021

by Terry Monroe , founder and president of American Business Brokers & Advisors (ABBA) and author of “ Hidden Wealth: The Secret To Getting Top Dollar For Your Business “ The vaccine for the COVID-19 virus recently began shipment.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed. This leads to the problem of “herding cats&# for entrepreneurs raising angel money. Here’s where I feel common ground : 1. rings true to me.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

However, the lack of funding opportunities has forced many entrepreneurs to seek funding abroad. I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. Johnni Kjelsgaard Founder and CEO at GrowthAfrica.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

by Terry Monroe , founder and president of American Business Brokers & Advisors (ABBA) and author of “ Hidden Wealth: The Secret To Getting Top Dollar For Your Business “ Normally, I am a proponent of buying small businesses. The data shows they make the world go round.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Founders don’t often think about “primary&# stock vs, “fully diluted&# stock in terms of voting rights.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. But that's no excuse to move slowly. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002.

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David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

Since 1999, ff has made over 100 investments in over 35 companies , and from the beginning has been highly focused on generating industry leading returns. I’ve known John Frankel , the firm’s founder, for a year and a half. I am delighted to announce that I’m joining ff Venture Capital as a Partner.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Completely unrelated to CVF’s investment, Deb Eichten, who is on the staff at Entrepreneurship at Cornell, recently interviewed the founders of ATC. Part 1 of 2 part posting by guest blogger Debra Eichten, Entrepreneurship at Cornell staff, interview with the founders of Agronomic Technology. Hope you enjoy it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. But that's no excuse to move slowly. Marty Zwilling.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

Julius Talvik is co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Unison , a brand innovation company in Washington, DC, that develops physical and digital products for companies around the world. In 1999 or so, a third player entered the scene when Google launched its minimalist Web experience. Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tech is absolutely a boon the city — the city has doubled in size since 1999 on the back of countless new tech jobs. Getting intros is easy as pie, and so far there are few social ceilings between founders and the local tech elite. In fact, the conflicting attitude towards newcomers has quite a lot do with Austin’s egalitarian culture.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Then I realized what that qualifies me to be: an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs have to wear a hundred different hats, be good at dozens of skills. Armchair philosophy aside, I truly believe that people with diverse skills, people who are well-rounded and good-but-not-great in many areas can make perfect entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

This was really a fun week at TWiVC because we decided to have an entrepreneur come and talk about raising capital rather than having a VC come on. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. LibreDigital.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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