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Put A Coin In It! Invest In Early Stage Startups To See Maximum ROI

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by Emmanuel de Watteville, co-founder of Blue Ocean Ventures. When anyone considers their own option to invest in a growing project or venture, they immediately think of the financial risks that come with such a business endeavor. Nothing ever goes as planned (entrepreneurship 101!)

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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

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We’ve collated a number of different stories to show you how you can go about getting funding to grow your business or to launch a new venture. Rob Biederman, co-founder of HourlyNerd, has a funding story that wouldn’t be out of place in a movie. As a business planning resource ourselves, we can’t help but agree.

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Entrepreneur Fills a Market Void by Building Female-Focused Co-Working Spaces

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It is the true entrepreneur that takes that frustration and turns it into an opportunity which usually means creating a business and sometimes resulting in an empire. Felena Hanson has shown that she is a true entrepreneur. Tell us your story and why you started your business. . What is Hera Hub?

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Q&A: Group Commerce Plans Hires, European Growth with $21M Funding. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego.

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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

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Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs. Founder.org founder Michael Baum. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies. Were you insane?

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

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I often think of all the times I was encouraged to conform when I come across entrepreneurs who are told that their ideas won’t work. Jalak means glimpse and is a word in Hindi (it’s not a traditional name) and has provided much entertainment to taxi drivers in Mumbai, camel drivers in the Rajasthani desert and countless others.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

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Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. He said this. Good stuff.