Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2013

Obviously, a key factor is always the state of the economy and the mood of the venture capital community. According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index® for the First Quarter 2013, the Q1 increase marks three consecutive quarters of positive sentiment among Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Now, as for today's entrepreneurs, first up today was Hardika Shah presenting Mesoloan, a small enterprise loan program for Indian entrepreneurs in the $2,000-$20,000 loan size bracket. David is also struggling with the notion of his community taking the transactions offline.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Whether opening a new business or expanding an existing one, when evaluating new markets, many entrepreneurs ask themselves several questions: Is there a demand for my product or service in the area? Boston, Massachusetts. Small business partnerships are key to creating a supportive environment for entrepreneurs.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. Recently, Disney was seen scoping out space in Kendall Square to set up a research lab.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support. iFood.tv.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs. While no comprehensive data about the movement exist, some prominent start-ups say their growth in the past year — in users, if not necessarily profit — affirms that the sharing movement is finding an audience beyond the technology hubs of Silicon Valley and Manhattans trendy SoHo district.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia. At today's session, therefore, all our entrepreneurs were pitching from Malaysia. global market a strong channel through Silicon Valley. ISA Innovation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Seshu Madabushi, from Irving, Texas, pitched Desi Sauda , a Groupon-like service catering to the South Asian communities in the U.S. Please note that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. Desi Sauda. Photo by Gisela Giardano. Discuss.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. they are all chasing talent.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford. Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S. Federal government.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It makes the following observation: When I first talked about the 1M/1M program, I had observed the need to contain the immense infant entrepreneur mortality prevalent in the startup ecosystem. That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. His firm invests in four. That's a 0.21% hit rate.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

I am sure most entrepreneurs have. Nwenna Kai then presented Food Is Our Medicine Vision , an online training concept through which she wants to teach community leaders how to create healthier living concepts like organic gardens, etc. I have, most certainly, drawn tremendous inspiration from him as a thinker and a visionary.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

6, 2011 we hosted our 64th free One Million by One Million (1M/1M) strategy roundtable for entrepreneurs, and the first for this year. As usual, then, I worked with three entrepreneurs working on specific businesses. In the Entrepreneur Journeys methodology, we focus on customer validation as early as possible. Mava Consulting.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Here’s a better idea: the Stanford Entrepreneurs. Investors, of course, want to know where to find the hotshot entrepreneurs. ” Are smart students soaking up community resources then leaving town to start companies and employ people elsewhere? Stanford University has a lot of smart people. As in the color red.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs , To Investors , and To The Media. The machines are $250,000 each, and as most dentists cannot afford them Benson wants to create Cone Beam imaging centers to be used by 20-30 dentists per community.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. Massachusetts.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 11, 2011

One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies outside Silicon Valley: lack of a reliable pipeline of deals. In many of these cases, the funds or the accelerators want to put in $100,000 to $500,000 in select ventures but are having a hard time finding mature entrepreneurs to support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). angels entrepreneur funding groups startup' Keiretsu Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. Although relatively new, they announced early last year that their community had already grown to more than 500 startups, and 2,500 investors. AngelList.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

If you were funded by VCs in Silicon Valley, Boston, or Bombay, it still paid to have your CEO and sales team have eyes and ears in NYC for two main reasons. And like all good entrepreneurs (the bulk of our membership are CEOs of mid-sized and small young companies, not Fortune 1000), they were looking for insights and opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

For those not familiar with the local geography, Palo Alto is the north end of what most consider “Silicon Valley” although nobody local calls it that. And it is one of the reasons that NYC is developing a vibrant technology community. Palo Also is about 35 miles south of San Francisco. Palo Alto is home to Stanford.

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Up and Running

JULY 21, 2016

Silicon Valley, California, USA. Coming in at number one (which should surprise absolutely no one) is Silicon Valley, California’s resident hub for startup and entrepreneurial innovation. If you’re interested in starting your company in Silicon Valley, check out these resources: Silicon Vikings Entrepreneur Resources.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 4, 2011

DemoTunes is proposed to be a LinkedIn of the music industry where a million plus musicians would be uploading music, getting feedback from their community, as well as, and more importantly, from talent scouts and connoisseurs who can help them further their careers. Please note, that I work exclusively with 1M/1M entrepreneurs.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? Sixty-three percent of startups currently scaling up are run by Israeli entrepreneurs with prior founding experience. We think so.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 13, 2021

She is also a co-founder and chairperson of the board of the national nonprofit called AI4ALL , focusing on training diverse K-12 students of underprivileged communities to become tomorrow’s AIs leaders. On the education side, HAI focuses on both educating our students as well as the community and the ecosystem.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. And because capital requirements are lower, entrepreneurs are holding onto more ownership, making it a lot easier to flip your company for less than, say, $30 million and become very rich. More cash equals more entrepreneurs who get to start companies.

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