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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. Why should I be? It’s lost salary for a period of time.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious. million of consulting work in start-ups in 2007.

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Social, Agile, and Transformation: Strategic Agile Thinking: Balancing Value, Innovation and Research

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decide on success metrics, measure, and then decide if additional investment is warranted. New skills, technologies, platforms or partnerships might be needed to fulfill this objective which would make it difficult for the team to fulfill in optimal ways. Technology leadership need to consider build/buy/partner options.

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Businesses Must Manage the Twitter Conversation

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My intuition is that this is why when Twitter initially took off (around the time of SxSW in 2007) it was an open “publish to the world” platform and the trend continued. This is most likely done outside of the automated processes that you can manage on Twitter and probably warrants a phone call.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention.

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Growing Your Audience (And Your Revenue) With A Book

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (02:25): So I, I published my first book in, I think my first book came out in 2007. And now I think it's definitely through technology, through, you know, a lot of advances in opportunities. And in many cases, that was warranted. Boy, the industry has changed a ton in that period of time.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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By then I was still on the board of my first company but it hadn’t yet sold (it ended up selling in 2007 to a publicly traded French company). But it is clearly not warranted in all cases. I think the following circumstances warrant consideration, but there is no doubt it is deal specific. Many term sheets ensued.

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