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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt. Many of the industry funds were wildly successful (in sectors such as media communications, health care, consumer, etc.), The remainder failed as a result of the phenomenon of investing in the best deals in their region which typically were not competitive on a national or global scale.

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Swedish Immigrant Helps Reinvent the Mouthguard Industry

Hearpreneur

My background is in media. But as I tried to find my own path in this, it became clear that there are MANY resources for small startups in Ann Arbor, and today throughout Michigan. Your company produces solid revenue – what advice do you have for companies struggling to keep things even revenue-wise?

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Episode 3b: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

After you’ve organized all the global ad agencies in the world, then you can go after Enterprise once you’ve got that market down. I would work full-time making software all day, and at night I would go home and give ski instructions here in Michigan. We would rather chase revenue. Of course you should chase revenue.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. But once I made it to college I was lost.

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Clusters, Class, Culture and Unfair Advantages

Steve Blank

Forty years later when the Internet has made knowledge global, we’ve run into the second barrier – just knowing about things is not the great equalizer we expected. Detroit is an automotive cluster, Hollywood an entertainment cluster, New York City for media and financial services, etc. But once I made it to college I was lost.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The aim from the start was to shake up the industry – starting local and growing global. I eventually recruited my wife Evelyn to quit her full-time job and join me at Sunny Days and since then we now serve 200 clients, maintain nearly 250 employees and generate about $5 million in annual revenue in just five years.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Media & Marketing. Media Agencies. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Globaloney: Globalization Challenged. Management. Accounting.