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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

In our societies and business, there’re entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptional personalities and demeanor to pull it through business. Here are the entrepreneurs and business owners, other entrepreneurs considered to be successful. #1- Jessica Livingston is one of the most successful entrepreneurs on the planet.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016. Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out!

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. This can serve as a guiding light to other entrepreneurs and CEOs. But for some companies the secret sauce might be engineering or finance. CONCLUSION.

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Lessons From Defeat, A True or False Quiz

Up and Running

It launched late in 2006 as a web app to help people manage their personal finances. It’s a rare treat to get an entrepreneur’s own analysis of his own startup’s failure. Director of Engineering at Organic Online … CTO at Webstorm, where he wrote one of the Internet’s first shopping cart applications in 1994.

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Up until today, I consider all four a must-read for any entrepreneur or anyone looking into entrepreneurship. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Don’t be like us and ask other entrepreneurs for advice so you can overcome obvious pitfalls. For me, these books were great guides.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

Leading financial magazine Global Finance named Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer among the top ten World’s Best Central Bankers for the year 2010. The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991.