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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. David sold his recording equipment for $50,000 and they borrowed the rest of their seed money from a bank. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So David’s advice.

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4 Tips For Startups During A Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. Contributing seed money to an employee’s HSA or 401K, or instituting a match program for contributions, can encourage employees to save. As the president of BabyScripts, Juan-Pablo has focused his efforts on business development, sales and fundraising.

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Instead of sticking a fork in the venture market, realize. there is no fork

This is going to be BIG.

The other day, I noticed an eye-catching headline: "Internet Funding Boom Ends as Fast as It Began". Did I mention it only took the founder a month? Television disruption seems right around the corner, with Apple working on the in home viewing experience and lots more consumers getting internet connected devices plugged into their TVs.

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Where to Get Feedback on Your Business Pitch

Up and Running

Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. The three who agreed to do it had some semblance of a relationship with the founders beforehand.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

Hopefully by that time you’ve developed the idea much further and in much greater detail – by talking to as many people as possible. The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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Figuring Out FourSquare

Seeing Both Sides

I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". 2) What was the magic of the foursquare system that drove rapid adoption that so many other consumer Internet companies fail to achieve?

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

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. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build. I want to get that last promotion at my current company first!