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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally. Her local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a resources partner of the SBA, assisted them in developing marketing materials that effectively showcased the company’s unusual range of proficiencies. In 2001, they secured their second SBA loan for the business.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” each with partners as the lead.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

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“Rare is the business that has a formal disaster plan, let alone one that covers a global Black Swan event.” Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. If you move fast, with less information, there will be mistakes,” admits Stewart. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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Zhongguancun in Beijing – China’s Silicon Valley (Part 4 of 5)

Steve Blank

I trained the Startup Weekend Next Beijing mentors and instructors, presented to several hundred entrepreneurs, and had a great fireside chat with Zhen Fund founding partner Xu Xiaoping in front of another roomful of entrepreneurs. The <10% that decide to go global early do so by starting outside of China.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. The Global Small Business Blog. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. 4) Are these investment partners for the long haul?