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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves). It’s lost salary for a period of time. And I’ll take the risk.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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My dad’s father fled Jewish oppression in Eastern Europe as a teenager and ended up in South America. So I was intrigued when I read Thomas Friedmans’s Op Ed in December 2008 about the need to Reboot America. The world’s best brains are on sale. They would invent many more jobs than they would supplant.

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

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"When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Businesses For Sale |. Mexico/Central America. South America.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

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It took me half a year to find Ophir and Haim [ Haim Pekel , sales and marketing]. Because you ask people to quit their jobs and leave the security of a salary. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Adir: A huge problem was to find people that would do it with me. VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

It took me half a year to find Ophir and Haim [ Haim Pekel , sales and marketing]. Because you ask people to quit their jobs and leave the security of a salary. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Adir: A huge problem was to find people that would do it with me. VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue.

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Exclusive: Enigmai Helps SMBs Simplify Complex Workforce Scheduling on the Cloud [Interview]

VC Cafe

It took me half a year to find Ophir and Haim [ Haim Pekel , sales and marketing]. Because you ask people to quit their jobs and leave the security of a salary. VC Cafe: How to you manage new customer acquisition/sales? Adir: A huge problem was to find people that would do it with me. VC Cafe: Let’s talk about revenue.

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