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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

Both Sides of the Table

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I started showing my partners more deals that I found interesting and doing loads of analysis on the future of markets I thought were ripe for disruption. The market had tanked.

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

Up and Running

Don’t get focused on the tech or how to dominate the market, just identify a problem and set about solving it. The company operates on six continents and boasts more than 250,000 graduates worldwide. Along the way, the group brought on another classmate, Joe Miller, to handle the technology end. David’s advice.

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20 Entrepreneurs Share Their Business Goals for 2018

Hearpreneur

This means constantly looking for improvements to our automation technology, using that automation more, and diligently pursuing excellence for each client’s dream website. This year we will hit our 100,000th person on experiential tours of Detroit and launch a new program that shares lessons learned with other leaders.

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Investing Outside The Bay Area

Haystack

Yes, the concentration of entrepreneurial founding and management talent is here in the Bay Area, but so too is lots of private money, more and more large platforms which continue to grow in market share. I sort of feel mentored by Fred via his blog, which is pretty remarkable for just writing words on the web and sharing them.

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Bad Boys and the Fab Five: Business Lessons from Basketball History

Up and Running

ESPN’s strategy demonstrates the importance of being able to adjust your business plan in real-time as you receive positive (or negative) feedback from your target market. In April of 2014, ESPN released its latest entry in the “30 for 30″ series, telling the story of the Detroit Pistons during their infamous “Bad Boys” era.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Like many surprise entrepreneurs, I had struck upon a market that hadn’t been previously acknowledged–coupons. Gaining valuable skills such as sales and marketing can be applied to every single business and leveraged to build your own. 7- Solve marketing problems. Thanks to Liat Tzoubari, Sevensmith ! #7-

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Several years prior to this my wife started a newborn photography business, over time I became more involved in the back end operations of the business and within several years had helped her grow her business into a full-time professional position. Thanks to Sean Matula, Small Business Consulting Strategic Marketing ! #2-