Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Successful entrepreneurs show up a lot and make their own luck. Both of these traits made all the difference for the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. Steve : … entrepreneurs make their own luck. … I’m not getting paid like an investment banker.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Entrepreneurs are understandably gratified to hear customer success stories. He has extensive professional experience as an investment banker and venture capitalist and has provided valuable strategic and operational guidance to nine fast-growing SaaS companies including Iowa-based Dwolla and BirdDogHR.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode, she’s sharing how she’s helped many entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. And we're gonna talk today about helping entrepreneurs buy and sell their agencies. So Amanda, welcome to the show.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

The fact that we’ve done all of that with no external investments (we’ve bootstrapped until now) and with no previous formal experience in education makes it even cooler (my business partner worked in infrastructure projects and I was an investment banker on Wall Street for five years prior to this). Daniel Pink.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. 6 – Investment Banker.

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 20, 2018

It's like walking up to the investment banker or a lawyer at a party who’s wearing a light blue button up, dark slacks, and brown loafers -- just like every other investment banker I've ever met. No number of articles written by entrepreneurs will get you the answers you need.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 30, 2011

Introduction I’ve been helping entrepreneurs raise capital as a securities lawyer for 17+ years, and there are certain fundamental legal mistakes that I’ve seen entrepreneurs make over and over again. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to share three basic tips for entrepreneurs in connection with raising capital.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2019

Successful entrepreneurs often come from very humble beginnings. Getting a job at an investment bank can teach you a lot of skills that will translate to managing your own company. Fundraising and building financial models are just some of the transferable skill sets that you will pick up working as an investment banker.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 27, 2020

Legal Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know. How to Engage an Investment Banker (with help from Golding Partners). We also significantly updated Chapter 2: Preparing for Fundraising and Chapter 19: Legal Things Every Entrepreneur Should Know (with help from Cooley). The new chapters in this edition are 11.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Increasing government regulations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Every investment banker I know is “number 1″ in something. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. It’s important to quantify the value of your product or service. I encourage it. You’ll do your best to market the benefits ethically while still emphasizing your strong points.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Increasing government regulations.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Although underwriting an IPO shares some similarities with ICOs, it’s only at the highest level and the details of executing — both technically and pragmatically — are quite different (for some insight think of old-line white shoe investment bankers versus millennials, and how and where they communicate differently).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. AskAnything.VC aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Those nice, encouraging and feel-good stories of self-made, successful entrepreneurs make you feel like you can do anything! And those feel-good stories of extremely successful entrepreneurs? But once you pull these factors all together, you’ll find out for yourself if you fit the equation of being an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

“Hi [entrepreneur], I hope all is well. I know the firm well and I know the entrepreneur & his business well. There is no chance they’re going to invest and it’s not even a close match. But if that’s all that they’re after then entrepreneurs should definitely be wary of taking these calls.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 1, 2011

I’ve suddenly become very popular with investment bankers and have been on the receiving end of over 50 emails that look something like the following: “We met once a long time ago when I was with firm X. Entrepreneurs beware. In the last month I’ve had the chance to make about 50 new friends.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. Based on our data set, we help our entrepreneurs measure, understand, and report their performance. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Anyone with a strong idea, a lot of luck, and even more hard work can succeed in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2018

You start getting entrepreneur of the year awards from Harvard Business School. Investment bankers are staking out your house.” You’re hiring sales and customer support staff as fast as you can. Reporters are calling because they’ve heard about your hot new thing and they want to talk to you about it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

While I wish my lawyers, accountants, and investment bankers offered a money back guarantee, I accept that isn’t changing anytime soon. After all, our mission is to help entrepreneurs. The only requirement is that you have to give us detailed feedback on what you didn’t find useful about Techstars.

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 27, 2020

During that period, I have seen numerous significant mistakes made by founders and entrepreneurs in the context of selling their company. Discuss the necessity of an investment banker with legal counsel (see this post here and tip #7 here ). Diligence the potential buyers (see tip #1 here and tip #1 here ).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Nature and nurture together shape successful entrepreneurs. That was the message from the two latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on Sirius XM Channel 111. a food entrepreneur who owns Challah Connection , an ecommerce site specializing in Jewish gift baskets, joined me in Sirius’ New York studio.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 12, 2014

The people in the room are the founders of the company, the executives, the board members, other major investors, the lawyers who worked on the deal, and the investment bankers – if any were involved. Tickets will be available for purchase the week of May 19 with proceeds going to Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

The United Kingdom is seeing a surge of creative energy from young entrepreneurs bubble up from all corners of the island. Tommy Williams is a young entrepreneur that followed a familiar path by many like him, he wanted to solve a simple problem he noticed. The new generation is made up of a diverse set of creative minds with a vision.

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The Next Web

JUNE 27, 2013

Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview. Arjun also serves as a member of the Young Entrepreneur Council, an LP at 500Startups, and is an angel investor and advisor to multiple Silicon Valley startups. Entrepreneur Insider United States Profiles and Interviews'

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

These topics were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern.) Look at the history of America and what has been the role models or the examples of a way out for a lot of underrepresented entrepreneurs minorities?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

I think this is an interesting question, because it seems to defy the logic (or conventional wisdom) that a VC with more operating experience should be better suited to help entrepreneurs. Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. Couple observations. First, consider the many counter-examples.

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The Next Web

JUNE 26, 2013

As part of the Young Entrepreneur Counci l’s #StartupLab initiative, a virtual mentorship program, Arjun will appear live via video chat broadcast on this site. Real Estate, and an investment banker specializing in the technology sector at Jefferies Broadview. Entrepreneur United States News' PT) Thursday, June 27th.

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