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The leap from employee to entrepreneur – Small Business Spotlight

Up and Running

But sometimes circumstances align and a budding entrepreneur just knows that the time is right to make the leap. For these LivePlan users, the big break came in March when they finished in the top 5 of the 2012 Miller Coors Urban Entrepreneurs Series, a national business plan competition that has awarded over $1.7

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Growing our team: V1 is hiring an associate

Version One Ventures

Since 2012, we have made over 40 investments and have been busy building our fund, expanding and deepening our network, and most gratifyingly, working with our portfolio companies in their pursuit to transform their industries and the world. S trong interpersonal skills – you’ll often be talking to entrepreneurs and other investors.

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Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur)

pandodaily.com

Next → Why Content Favors the Old (Entrepreneur). by Sarah Lacy on February 26, 2012. And getting to know entrepreneurs for fifteen years– seeing what worked or didn’t for them– has certainly been helpful too. Of course there are studies that show that on average more older entrepreneurs win.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

When they found out, they questioned my decision-making and me as an entrepreneur. How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Meanwhile, the investors thought we were dead.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

When they found out, they questioned my decision-making and me as an entrepreneur. How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Meanwhile, the investors thought we were dead.

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The Paralyzing Fear of Getting Started

Austin Startup

Like most entrepreneurs… I haven’t told you everything. I had more know-how than at any other point in my entrepreneurial career, including the lessons that hardened for me in writing Lucky7 over the years to help other entrepreneurs. I had served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at both The Wharton School and U.T.

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Two Rules - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

« What Entrepreneurs and Angels Want To Know. Now Is The Time for Entrepreneurs » January 14, 2009. I'm reminded this morning about these two simple "rules" and how important they can be to entrepreneurs.   The best advisers bring expertise that the entrepreneur can't get any other way.