Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

What About Us? If you’re starting a company in other, capital intensive industries, it’s no longer just about having great technology. Being acquired has lots of math challenges about your valuation, amount of money raised, percent of founder ownership, type of investor, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. This is often in the 5-7% range. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 15, 2010 Some IPO speculation Inspired by Steve Blank’s post today about the “lost decade&# of IPO’s , I’d like to make some predictions. By contrast, what I’m about to say is pure speculation. By contrast, what I’m about to say is pure speculation.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" And in the spirit of how to get your ideas to happen, they asked me to talk about entrepreneurship and the myriad ways you can "be your own boss." But, seeing it articulated so well and establishing a common vocabularly for us to talk about it is immensely valuable. You can also email us at ha@hackerangels.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 15, 2010

The Android numbers are growing fast, and this is just US figures. What has struck me most recently are the conversations I'm having with entrepreneurs and industry leaders about Apple. Android arguably has already established a superior position in the international market given their breadth of OEM and carrier partners.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 14, 2010

It weeds out the weak entrepreneurs, which provide more opportunity for profits for us stronger entrepreneurs. Incremental changes often bring about significant results. The way I see it, the fact that things don't always go smoothly or work at first is a good thing. There are lots of times when entrepreneurs must "go through hell."

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 15, 2010

Today, a jury selected by the Indian government picked a new symbol for the Indian rupee – to rival similar symbols for the US dollar ($), the euro (€), the UK pound (£) and the Japanese Yen (¥). What do you think about the new Indian rupee symbol? As you’ve read on our blog, the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 15, 2010

Today, a jury selected by the Indian government picked a new symbol for the Indian rupee – to rival similar symbols for the US dollar ($), the euro (€), the UK pound (£) and the Japanese Yen (¥). What do you think about the new Indian rupee symbol? As you’ve read on our blog, the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Bob Garfield was introduced to crowdSPRING when he crowdsourced the cover for his recently published book about the media industry – The Chaos Scenario. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment to this post. In my book, I expressed qualms about participating in this corner of the digital economy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Bob Garfield was introduced to crowdSPRING when he crowdsourced the cover for his recently published book about the media industry – The Chaos Scenario. Let us know what you think by leaving a comment to this post. In my book, I expressed qualms about participating in this corner of the digital economy.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 10, 2010

About a month ago, I was honored by the Asian American Development group, a nonprofit organization based in NYC, as one as a Top 50 Asian American in Business. Of course I now know differently — the political stability, along with the personal and economic freedoms the US provides continues to draw people from around the world.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 13, 2010

. —————————————————————————– Rather than pontificate further about why I think sharing doesn’t make something social but is rather a by-product of social and the true meaning of social is (..)

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JULY 16, 2010

My favorite part of the piece is where they describe his previous work at Columbia – highlighting that the folks who decided on his hiring knew they were about to open up a big can of innovation in the desert. The university abandoned its involvement with the project in 2003.

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Arizona Entrepreneur Engineer Hiring 39

Software By Rob

JULY 15, 2010

My time off consisted of 3 days completely disconnected, and then about 30 minutes each day of email and maintenance (easy to do when everyone’s asleep). I make a car payment to PayPal every month in commissions…that’s a lot of individual sales that I’m getting notified about, and a lot of emails I’m deleting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 16, 2010

Yeah, we learn math and science, but what about tools to manage stress? A lot of times, stress, insecurity, or maybe fear of the unknown prevents us from going after our dreams. Thousands of young people throughout the US and internationally have turned to YES+ as a way to be more efficient, happy and successful human beings.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 16, 2010

Yeah, we learn math and science, but what about tools to manage stress? A lot of times, stress, insecurity, or maybe fear of the unknown prevents us from going after our dreams. Thousands of young people throughout the US and internationally have turned to YES+ as a way to be more efficient, happy and successful human beings.

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