ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Even some of the most prominent startup household names in Silicon Valley saw their demise last year — and everyone entrepreneur and startup face this fear. Do Not Fear! This is an Opportunity!

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Entrepreneurs and business owners have never faced a crisis like the 2020 pandemic. Business funding can help entrepreneurs tackle some of the financial problems at an early stage. Often well-known entrepreneurs and business owners underestimate the importance of a negative persona. About the Author.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Tom Bedecarré the founder and CEO of AKQA, the leading digital advertising agency. We were lucky to get a team of mentors (VC’s and entrepreneurs) who selflessly volunteered their time to help coach the teams. Steve Weinstein 30-year veteran of Silicon Valley technology companies and Hollywood media companies. He runs H4X Labs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

The Top 10 Duct Tape Marketing Podcast Episodes for 2020 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. 2020 was an unpredictably eye-opening year that brought forth swift change, lots of uncertainty, and a shift in perspective for many. I wanted to take a look back at the most popular episodes we aired in 2020.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

In our societies and business, there’re entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptional personalities and demeanor to pull it through business. Here are the entrepreneurs and business owners, other entrepreneurs considered to be successful. #1- Jessica Livingston is one of the most successful entrepreneurs on the planet.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 13, 2022

Here’s the list of industries with the most optimistic future as suggested by entrepreneurs. #1- Entrepreneurs who can spur innovation and offer solutions to these long-standing problems will have an edge over others and be a part of a fast-growing industry. It has an optimistic future, having grown drastically compared to 2020.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the future trends entrepreneurs see in their industry and here are the responses. #1- The housing demand has far outpaced the supply in 2020 and this will continue into 2021. I am a business owner who works to help entrepreneurs incorporate or form LLCs for their businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2021

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 30 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2021. #1- This year was filled with distractions, and as an entrepreneur, distractions can be the kiss of death.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the end of the year approaches, it’s a good time to take steps to start your business in 2020. Like many fledgling entrepreneurs, you might be thinking that you’ll need to wear not just multiple hats , but all the hats, when you’re first starting out. It might seem easier to put off thinking about your first essential new hires.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2020

According to TheStreet , US IPO market results in Q2 2020 posted a strong bounce-back from Q1 with 58 IPOs, after a slow start due to the Covid19 pandemic. Yet I believe the trend will continue at least flat as entrepreneurs become more aware of other considerations that make the IPO route less and less attractive.

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View from Seed

APRIL 3, 2019

Original research on gender diversity and fundraising amongst HBS founders. Historically, there has been a general bias against MBA founders — a skepticism around their grit and hustle. of venture capital went to companies with only female founders (Pitchbook, October 2018).

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Many entrepreneurs I have mentored make big mistakes in this area, by hiring low-cost friends and family, with minimal skills or training, and expecting them to have the same work ethic , passion, and business knowledge as the founder. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/07/2020.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

“It has been awe-inspiring to see so many people take the leap towards business ownership as a means to change their lives and follow their dreams, especially in the face of such adverse conditions,” said ZenBusiness CEO and co-founder Ross Buhrdorf.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In previous blog posts I’ve written about the two main approaches to building a seed round syndicate – the subscription method (where an entrepreneur presets a structure with a convertible note or SAFE and recruits investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor) and a term-driving lead investor approach.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 11, 2020

by Nemanja Zunic, founder and CEO of IdeaBuddy. Nemanja Zunic is the founder and CEO of IdeaBuddy , an innovative business planning and modeling software that helps aspiring entrepreneurs and startup owners to develop their ideas and turn their passion projects into a successful business.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Friday, September 18 th from 10:00-11:00am MT – Mental Health Fireside with Brad Feld and Dave Morin : Dave is Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Sunrise whose mission is to cure depression, reduce suffering, and understand the brain. Come join us for some of these, or any of the other hundreds of events at Denver Startup Week 2020.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- To do it for myself. 2- To help entrepreneurs become financially independent. From that acquisition, I knew I needed to let out the entrepreneur spirit that was trapped in me. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

It’s been growth ever since, and in 2020 the company pitched for funding to scale up. In early 2020, Sutton set up meetings through cold and warm outreach over email, LinkedIn, and networking through angel and tech start-up groups. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 31, 2020

As an angel investor in startups, I’m a believer that smart investors invest more in you as the entrepreneur than the next billion dollar solution you are pitching. Even if you are still in school, and never started a company before, strong entrepreneur candidates can point to projects they initiated, led, that produced significant results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2020

In my work with new startups, I often find people who believe that the terms “ entrepreneur ” and “ inventor ” are interchangeable. In my experience, most successful entrepreneurs have indeed created a new product, but most people who claim to be inventors have a hard time starting a business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As a mentor to entrepreneurs, I tend to see many of the same obstacles appearing in every new startup, and since I don’t want to appear to be a downer , I’m not sure how to properly warn people ahead of time to be on the alert for these challenges. Too many entrepreneurs think that expert external advisors are suspect, or will slow them down.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 29, 2020

by Hema Crockett and Jamie Jacobs, co-founders of Gig Talent . In the past, working remotely was considered “normal” for entrepreneurs or independent contractors in the gig economy only, but organizations wanted employees, and consultants, to be onsite and working in the office. Larger Talent Pool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Even though I’m a big proponent of becoming an entrepreneur, it is definitely not for everyone. There is no better way to feel the pressures and unknowns, as well as the excitement, of a startup than to work in one as an employee, and realize that the highs and lows are even greater for the founder. Then be one later.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the antithesis of how founders want to build a business. But entrepreneurs entering regulated markets need to understand how the game is played, how they can play it, what their VC’s should be doing to help them, and how to win. [link] ) Let’s be clear, rent seekers and regulatory capture strangle innovation in its crib.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Pete Martin , founder of CEO of Votem , and classic rock drummer The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Paging Iowa elections officials! One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , Votem is a revolutionary election management company that aims to give democracy back to the people. What is your top goal for Votem for 2020?

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

We have done almost 90 roundtables so far and, based on this extensive experience of learning directly from entrepreneurs about their core issues, 1M/1M has just launched a new assessment tool for entrepreneurs. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Sapient’s Sam Parks and Martin Koch have developed a smart outlet system for commercial deployment The Forrest Four-Cast: January 28, 2020 If Sam Parks , CEO and co-founder of Sapient Industries , weren’t working for his startup, he’d be working as a scientist, using his background in nanotechnology as an applied physicist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2020

Although most people believe that being a successful entrepreneur is all about having the right idea, I’m convinced from my years of experience as a startup advisor and investor that’s it’s more about you as a person. The best entrepreneurs are not just dreamers of the next big thing – they have to be great facilitators and problem solvers.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 19, 2011

I met Ram Kumar during my visit to Chennai and advised him to look at the Bioscope project in my Vision India 2020 book. What I like about the dynamics of 1M/1M today is that we're starting to see entrepreneurs make definitive progress. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 4, 2018

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News At South by Southwest 2018, Ingrid Vanderveldt, chairman, and CEO of Empowering a Billion Women by 2020 movement, launched MintHer, a financial resources network for female entrepreneurs.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Nicole Price of the Chicago-based International Center for Breathwork. Our Festival started as an in-person event in Cabo last February 2020. And the rest is history! TSM: So how does breathwork impact work performance and the workplace?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2020

Milis Bio CEO and Founder Mike Sheehan winning the 2018 Bank of Ireland/IGNITE Business of Year prize. The Forrest Four-Cast: March 1, 2020 People are rightfully concerned about the threat of coronavirus, which has so far killed about 2,800 people worldwide. Mike Sheehan , CEO and Founder at Milis Bio, earned a B.S.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2019

This year, you may resolve to be more productive and do your best work in 2020. Charlie Gilkey is an author, entrepreneur, philosopher, Army veteran, and renowned productivity expert. Founder of Productive Flourishing, Gilkey helps professional creatives, leaders, and changemakers take meaningful action on work that matters.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

According to Blissfully’s report, overall spend per company on SaaS has increased by 50% in 2020 as compared to 2018. Often, SaaS company founders are not aware of steps, tools, and checkpoints they should follow while building their product. The largest cost component of establishing a SaaS company is product development costs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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