Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. " Study entrepreneurship, but major in something else. An MBA is helpful, but not required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. " Study entrepreneurship, but major in something else. An MBA is helpful, but not required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

We reasonably assure that they have oil for their engines, in the form of logistical, administrative, and professional support services that reduce their risk. To get the mentors and the seed money, the start-up teams must clearly demonstrate what I call Moxie, the strength of character to play the game to its conclusion.

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Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

But a depth of knowledge in a specific discipline, like computer science or engineering, allows you to understand that business as well as run it. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. ” Study entrepreneurship, but major in something else. Pick an idea, any idea.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The $50k seed money isn't a grant, but an equity investment by Capital Innovators. Matthew May is the Chief Project Engineer, and would consider moving the company to St. The first group of ventures moved in last month, and includes: Yojoe.com , a site for GI Joe doll collectors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. Michael Beattie , who launched MBM Consulting in 1995, knows full well the special combination of training, skills and, importantly, mindset it takes to succeed. He’s spent over 20 years nurturing them all.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

You dont need to know electrical engineering or computer science. Meanwhile our country is facing a crisis because we have a shortage of students in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and math. Maybe theyll go back to university and study medicine, or engineering. Share on LinkedIn. Like on Facebook. Like on Facebook.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

There are a host of companies that can be accessed through web-search engines that can provide both secured and unsecured financing. Factoring companies can help you with working capital needs when your business grows quickly by filling the money “gap” created between new billings and actual collections.

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M They can easily raise seed money because there’s a lot of willing investors in the ecosystem. Here’s why the good times will continue.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

In Paris today at the World Founder Forum he announced the top 10 student team winners who split $1 million in seed money prizes. Today Baum heads up a non-profit called Founder.org , where he’s applying the lessons he learned from his own startups to help student entrepreneurs launch their companies.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Such is its impressiveness, however, that Google released Django as the first supported language on their App Engine cloud computing platform, and a number of Rails developers are starting to transition over. We’ve written previously on the other technical challenges start-ups will face when working with agencies or developers.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. When we were starting Viaweb,I didnt know about the concept of an accredited investor, anddidnt stop to think about the value of investors connections.The reason I didnt take money from my parents was that I didntwant them to lose it.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. Our engineers are better coders. That doesn''t feel like the perspective you get from a lot of advice givers these days. A BD person at an aqui-hire will write a book on the art of the deal. Growth hacking?

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. The campaign goes on to plug Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, as “an honest search.” Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.

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