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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. When it launched in 97 it was a DVD rental business whose only real value proposition was the mail-order element of its operation.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

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. They are operators, through and through.

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Why We Do What We Do

Babbling VC

Michael and I wanted to be operational. We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. We didn't want to be another incubator, accelerator or corporate VC fund. There are already so many of those and being old enough, I saw the massacre that happened to these endeavours post 2001.

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NYC 3.0

thebarefootvc

I shared it with incubators from Ghana to Nairobi , at the White House Treasury Department, and in Indonesia with business and government leaders on a delegation I was asked to participate in by the US State Department. A handful of local VCs and angel investors (primarily from the financial sector) funded the startups.

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Why We Do What We Do

Babbling VC

Michael and I wanted to be operational. We wanted to be in the midst of the product, sales, hiring and so forth. We didn't want to be another incubator, accelerator or corporate VC fund. There are already so many of those and being old enough, I saw the massacre that happened to these endeavours post 2001.

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