Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could somehow deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. So unless your business is well established, and ready to sell or go public (Initial Public Offering - IPO), you should steer clear of investment banks.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. For a specific startup this list is probably a few hundred names. Wide Adoption.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Many entrepreneurs end up taking their company in a different direction after some time spent testing your initial business model. Take the founder of Wrigley's chewing gum, who began selling baking powder and soap door-to-door and giving away gum as a bonus before discovering people wanted it a lot more than soap.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Almost immediately, people started to dig what we were doing: Digital Trends named Localeur one of their favorite new apps of SXSW 2013 and other press followed. Second, I went on to raise roughly $5 million in angel investments from 100 individuals who did listen to, understand, and value my experience as a black founder and CEO.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Domain Name/Basic Site. COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL. Software. -

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