Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright and the number of entrepreneurs will increase but others argue these changes are meant to work against budding or would-be entrepreneurs. But the big question, will there be fewer entrepreneurs in the future? Hence, entrepreneurs will be on the rise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Express thoughtfulness and kindness. 3- I’ve always been an entrepreneur. For me, I’ve always been an entrepreneur at heart. I decided to decline that job offer and start my new career as a real estate entrepreneur.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about their best business or entrepreneur turnaround story and here are the responses. #1- The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Photo Credit: Brian David Crane. 6- Lord Alan Sugar.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Eric Ries , entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Startup. The focus of our first segment with Eric was, “What is the Lean Startup” and how did it start? Origins of the Lean Startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2011

I was recently approached by Fast Company to comment on “crisis management&# at startups in the wake of the Airbnb “ranksackgate&# story. During the 2004 election he was accused of having made up material facts from his service in the Vietnam War in an election against somebody who didn’t serve in a war.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 15, 2011

As someone who spent two years in 2003 and 2004 in NYC selling technology to Wall St trading firms and having my friends and clients wonder what this whole startup thing was about and why I was "wasting" my career doing this after doing a fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University it is great to see how vibrant the NY Startup community has become.

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Technical Review Technology Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 128

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. Matt is one of the most transparent, focused & honest startup guys you’ll meet. On Entrepreneurship: What makes a great entrepreneur?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Standout startups like Stripe, InVision, and Github exploit a competitive edge every startup should leverage. Even the most well-funded startup has limited resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. Business-startup rates in America increased the most in the Midwest and South.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

New Age Meats cofounders Brian Spears and Andra Necula The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. I lived in Austin from 2004 to 2016, and attended SXSW every year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – Fell in Love. My advice for people making the switch from full-time worker to entrepreneur is to know your strengths. 9 – Always Wanted to be an Entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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Entrepreneur South Africa PR Thailand 128

Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If you’re an entrepreneur, you spend your time worrying about how to get out of the box on the left and move to the right. If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. Just like a startup. Creative Destruction.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Many entrepreneurs battle with their business name, mostly I believe, because they have too many ideas and are not sure what to narrow their niche down to. I wanted to create a company name that was memorable and relevant to the value proposition of my startup. Thanks to Simon Trask, Rita Marie’s Large Chicken Coops ! #8-

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In 2021, the startup landscape looks much different than it did in 2000. For starters, there are more startups. And these are not just any old startups either; they’re some of the most innovative and successful organizations around! Damon Becnel discusses how the startup industry has changed over the past decade.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

We live today in a golden age of writing and resources for entrepreneurs. There are books on most (but not yet all) of the critical topics about startups, and of course a massive amount of information on blogs and Twitter. Even 10 or 15 years ago, when I first cut my teeth as an entrepreneur, there were very few things to read.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The Japanese edition of The Startup Owner’s Manual hit the bookstores in Japan this week. Back in 1990’s, I was working for one of the leading sogo shohsa (trading company) in Japan, building data communications startups. The result: great success of my third startup, a load balancing technology for web servers back in the late 1990’s.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. What Do VC’s Do? The reality is that VC’s have one goal – to maximize the amount of money they return to their investors.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Whats This? By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC.

Cofounder 111

Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In my own business career, many years as a business advisor, and mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I have validated the following strategies to practice and guide you. Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone.

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Dividend Metrics Cost Internet 382

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. That was in May 2004, when she approached the Athens New Media Synergy Center out of UGA to build a mobile student messaging platform she called Vusion.

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Social Media Media Management Application Development 187

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

Occasionally here at The Startup Magazine we come across an entrepreneurial story that shows there is more to a startup than the quest to become the next billion dollar unicorn. More often than you think, an entrepreneur’s passion is for the care and concern for others less fortunate. What were the first hurdles?

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Founder Entrepreneur Chicago Illinois 158

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

How we came up with the name of our startup (BeeWits) is quite interesting. When I decided to quit the corporate world and build my company in 2004, I saw very few companies focused on helping SMB with digital marketing services. We are an EdTech startup that makes interactive toys that you can code – we like to say hack.

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Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 97

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

They started out as that spoiled generation of kids, born between about 1982 and 2004, who had everything, and could care less about business. As a partially-retired baby-boomer in business, I’ve spent much of the last few years mentoring aspiring millennial entrepreneurs, and I’m always looking for more insights into how to help them.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention.

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South Africa Product Incubator 90

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. One of our principles – and we call them deeply held beliefs – one of them was that we are all going to invest in the same things”… “I think it is useful for the entrepreneur to know what he is encountering because every firm has a different process.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But the other archetype is a thirty-something entrepreneur who, taking his experience seeing the playbook of success at larger growing startups or even “established” companies, utilizes that domain and functional expertise as unique insight into founding a company. Today the landscape is very different from 2004.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

At the same time, leaders are also looking towards acquiring that entrepreneur Agility. This notorious quote has been attributed to many individuals, but, originally it was used at a stand-up meeting in February of 2004 by David J. Thus, many have been fostering Agile thinking and mindset within their teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2022

If every entrepreneur could predict the future, starting the right new business would be easy. million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Baby Boomers (no other name) – 70.7 Every entrepreneur needs to understand that people and populations drive business opportunities, as well as society.

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Architecture Forecast Demand Technology 258

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing.

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