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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

When I left Intuit in 2015, I was VP of Innovation and led Intuit Labs, Intuit’s internal incubator. Through the great work of many other Intuit employees, Intuit Payments would eventually become a roughly $1B business for Intuit and a key enabling feature for over half of Intuit’s small business revenue.

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TackThis Helps Small Businesses In Singapore Sell Online

YoungUpstarts

At least one small business that uses TackThis agrees. When I heard about TackThis ’ Share Promotion feature, I immediately incorporated it into Magic Global’s Facebook Shop,” said Bigy Tan who owns Magic Global, a small business that sells health products. TackThis is incubated by NUS Enterprise.

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The Class That Changed the Way Entrepreneurship is Taught

Steve Blank

The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S. The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). Soon others were created.

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Considering Starting A Business Or Staying In School – What’s The Smarter Move?

YoungUpstarts

Based on a 2013 survey by one of the leading specialist insurers, half of the US-based small business owners believe the national education system isn’t encouraging enough when it comes to individual ideas or dreams, and these are the components that play a highly important role in entrepreneurship. What Do Numbers Show? – 20%.

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When Krave Jerky Showed up in Class with a $435,000 Check

Steve Blank

I remind my students that I’m teaching them a methodology they can use the rest of their careers, not running an incubator. Hershey just bought Krave Jerky, a team in our 2011 Berkeley Lean LaunchPad class, for >$200 million. Every once in awhile a team ignores my advice and builds a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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What the AngelList Debate Means for the Future of Startup Investing

www.readwriteweb.com

Dave McClure >>"what we are seeing now is a battle of two major investment theses: the index approach and the concentrated investment approach." startupcto

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What is convertible equity (or a convertible security)?

Startup Company Lawyer

As a result of this risk, some people like Adeo Ressi, have declared that 2011 will be the “ year of the startup default.” There are likely thousands of startup companies (especially coming from incubators or accelerators) that have raised money using convertible debt — and many of these companies may default on payment.