Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2013

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. Since Keiretsu Forum’s founding in 2000, its members have invested over $180M in 200 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, and real estate. New England Investment Network. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2019

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2017

Even entrepreneurs who have built many startups, or sold their last one for millions of dollars, know they make occasional people leadership mistakes. Thankfully, most mistakes won’t be as spectacular as the America Online merger with Time Warner for $350 billion, back in 2000, engineered by then superstar entrepreneurs Stephen M.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2014

With the recent apparent successes of several startups in taking their company public (initial public offering) and raising billions of dollars, I’m hearing a groundswell of enthusiasm from new entrepreneurs to follow in their footsteps to fund their companies and become billionaires overnight. Your odds of hitting the lottery may be better.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2011

That’s why investors invest in entrepreneurs, rather than ideas. Microsoft found this out last year when their market capitalization, once at $560 billion in the year 2000, had fallen to $219 billion, allowing them to be passed by Apple at $222 billion, who grew from $15.6 billion during the same period.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. Even lifetime entrepreneurs can decide that enough is enough. Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Assuming 60 companies are accepted in a specific batch, that would mean around 2000 companies applied. That’s about the same ratio that Angel investors claim.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. Even lifetime entrepreneurs can decide that enough is enough. Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2015

This is nearly 30 times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. As an entrepreneur, what steps can you take to help your business not only survive the data hurricane, but to thrive under these new and challenging conditions? exabytes per month at the end of the year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2016

million books from 1800 to 2000 to let anyone analyze cultural trends. There is a whole new discipline of ‘cultural analytics,’ which uses digital image processing and visualization for the analysis of image and video collections to explore cultural trends. For example, Google’s Ngram service has already datafied over 5.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

According to IBM, companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Compared to the plethora of dating site proposals that I see, Big Data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Big Data business entrepreneur solutions startup' Every day, we create 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2023

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2020

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. entrepreneurs startups' We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2018

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Compared to the plethora of dating site proposals that I see, big data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Every day, we create 2.5 Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. AngelList has featured over 3 million businesses for potential investors in a format that is, effectively, a social network for entrepreneurs and angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Compared to the yet another dating site proposal that I see most often, Big Data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. entrepreneur startup Big Data opportunity business' Every day, we create 2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Compared to the plethora of dating site proposals that I see, big data is an exciting opportunity for entrepreneurs and investors alike. Every day, we create 2.5 Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We’ve all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode.

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