Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2015

Goldberg, founder of ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and co-author of “ A Whole New Engineer ” . The 11 th century design of universities, with upgrades in the 19 th century to further emphasize research activity and after World War II to feed at governmental troughs, leaves the university in a precarious state.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Saying things like, “You’ll earn a salary, as soon as we close our funding round,&# make me throw up slightly in my mouth. If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. While all of those offers have been very kind and very flattering, some have tended towards the bizarre.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 16, 2011

A bootstrapped startup also allows the entrepreneur to determine what the market really wants without having to lock in specific long-term expenses tied to a specific business model. The money we saved in overhead was money we were able to put back into our pockets and into growing the business."

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. It's not necessarily designed to give you insight as a business owner. Marketing Podcast with Marcel Petitpas.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. This week, we discuss how a philosophy degree compares to a much more conventional business background: the masters in business administration or MBA.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Back in 1986 when Barefoot was founded, my cofounder Bonnie Harvey and I pioneered what we call “worthy cause marketing” (WCM). Top-down thinking, when it comes to product, package design, and even promotion, can undermine what has taken years to establish. Think creatively about marketing. You don’t have to spend a lot of money.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2023

Additionally, it’s important to consider the power of strategic marketing alliances throught this model and how this can have the potential to bring fresh ideas from other industries into a business to drive growth and success. I mean, if, is there a way to scale a business model like that? For a full-time person.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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pandodaily.com

JULY 18, 2012

And the satisfaction of not only paying my own salary– which I’ve done for years on various book projects– but paying the salaries of others. More to the point, the relationships with vendors, know-how of product hunting and credibility in the design world took decades to develop. Share on Facebook. Sarah Lacy.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

The search giant recently took over the prominent Binoculars building, designed by famed architect Frank Gehry , in Venice. Because he cant compete with Google on salary, Citron says, he offers job candidates more responsibility — letting prospective engineers know theyll get to work on bigger projects. Advertisement. Most Popular.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

My goal is to some day get an honorary degree for kicking ass in business. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I’m studying design. you can hire for those.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. His passions are business process automation, surfing, and his new baby girl Maya. ?. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. As Paul Graham suggested, sometimes founders need to do things that don’t scale.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2020

I craved freedom to be responsible for my salary, not have someone else set it. I sat down and made a list of all of the things I loved doing and then launched a side hustle designed to allow me to do more of the things on the list every day. Today I am a full-time entrepreneur, my business is growing, and I couldn’t be happier!

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 10, 2020

He also had a natural talent for people and understood the power of human resources; therefore he prioritized his employees salary during the wartime like nobody else. It ushered in a new business model, and has since been expanding its network. Thanks to Mike Falahee, Marygrove Awning Co. ! #11- 7-Sir James Dyson.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

« Thanks but No Thanks – Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders Why is Cyber Squatter a Bad Word? Some have been as co-founder, most have been as a consultant with the possibility of becoming an paid employee, “as soon as we close our funding round.” The founder is very generous.).

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Up and Running

JANUARY 29, 2014

Amy Balliett, co-founder of Killer Infographics, offers entrepreneurs advice on starting a business. Amy Balliett and her partner grew their design company, Killer Infographics , into a thriving business in just three years. To do that, you’ll need to wear a lot of hats within your business.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The co-owners, including myself, put our heads together to create a first-of-its-kind integrated digital marketing and PR agency, catering to both start-up and seasoned franchise companies. I know you will see the simplicity in the design of the bag. So I turned the business model upside down. 26) The Great Recession.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

2010-06-19) # What about design mockups using eg. The programmer will probably not understand your business model, and therefore cant help you point out anything that doesnt make sense in the requirements. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 mockingbird?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees. Our slogan is, “We heart employees,” and everything that we do is designed around usability for the employees. We’re a time tracking system.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In that capacity, I co-founded the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels Venture Capital Access Program, a joint venture with the National Association of Investment Companies (“NAIC”), which helps women and diverse entrepreneurs raise capital. Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype. Are you politically active?

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Entrepreneurs such as Figma CEO Dylan Field, fellow investors including Moxxie Ventures founder and general partner Katie Stanton, and Coatue Management partner Jamie McGurk pitched questions to the duo. To guide the conversation, Reid and Harry solicited questions from Twitter ahead of the recording. You can listen to the podcast here.

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