Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Venture capital dispensed quarterly to startups continues to decline, down to about $3 billion in the first quarter, which is the lowest level since 1997. This means smaller amounts given to more entrepreneurs who get a chance to prove that they can build great businesses. New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

The enterprise in company form offers a product, a process or service for sale or hires to professionals or individuals, contributing to a community’s overall economic development. Women Entrepreneurs in History. The number of women entrepreneurs increased up to 68% in U.S. from 1997 to 2014.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. Case Foundation didn’t have a website until 2005, although founded 1997. What is your model for working with social entrepreneurs?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. It is great for entrepreneurs and great for VCs. So here is what I have been telling entrepreneurs privately for the past 6 months. They have seen one side of a market where many of us have seen the ebb and flow multiple times. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs “why they started their businesses.”

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It’s easy as an entrepreneur to want to take risks. By 1997, the company’s penny stocks were valued at $4.4 You should avoid any type of offer that promises you success via a once in a lifetime invention or product. Penny stocks are tempting for potential quick returns but are notable for scams. Pump and Dump Scams.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Their help has aided in producing the next generation of female entrepreneurs and innovators! Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. Austin, this time?—?to

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2012

By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. 1997 was also that year that Microsoft was in the middle of the browser wars with Netscape. Explorer logo.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. You can ask around to startup lawyers and other entrepreneurs who know these things. What is total assets under management? -

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Since 1997, women-owned businesses rose by 68 percent. As a female entrepreneur who will soon celebrate my company’s 25th anniversary, I’m well aware of the challenges these brave new CEOs face. Advice For The Young At Heart business advice Marsha Friedman startup success women entrepreneurs women founders'

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

We are not growing entrepreneurs. No, not everyone can be an entrepreneur, but if we don’t have a goodly number of them, we’re not doing well as a country. in 1997 to 24.7 The percentage of new entrepreneurs who are women has also dropped significantly since 1997. We are not growing entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. The guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show explained how they’re working to do that. Javier Saade. Joining me on the latest show were.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

From the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s, Apple was a niche company with many product failures and a poorly defined vision. The transformation that turned Apple from a niche player into an industry giant started when Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997. This is a very important lesson for entrepreneurs and startups. The misfits.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. Rather than write long exhaustive documents, entrepreneurs can rapidly prototype their product and get immediate user and market feedback. In the 1990s, business plan competitions were all the rage. Related articles.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2021

For many fledgling entrepreneurs, trying to start up their own business can be an admittedly exhausting and arduous task. Were you to ask any entrepreneur what their most pressing concern was regarding their product or idea, they would most likely unhesitantly reply “money” — or, rather, the complete lack thereof.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Provide pet owners with the information and education. I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. Photo credit: Dr. Tim Shu.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Even in 1997, during the dot-com boom, Bezos’s anti-pitch was stark and to the point: “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.”. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion' What’s more —with an anti-pitch, you’ll stick out from the hiring crowd. Image Credit: Getty.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. That ‘cut’ still left me with over 40 potential thick-skinned budding entrepreneurs. And Zignal Labs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Be Connected & Productive Anywhere, Any Time. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. How can an aspiring entrepreneur improve his or her own readiness to be a business founder? How can entrepreneurs develop a market orientation?

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. We listened to their feedback and started adding features to the product accordingly. The product worked. Not so fast.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

It’s helped me accomplish much in my life as an entrepreneur. Positive psychology is, in fact, a whole discipline centered entirely around the study of positivity and its effect on well being, productivity, and success. “If If you’re an entrepreneur, positive thinking is really a must-have. They are also less productive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. No amount of persuasion would work so I asked simply if I could be staffed on one of his projects to teach some of his MBA geniuses about computer networks since they were working on defining telecom product offerings for the Internet age. He took me.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Part of my problem was that my reality distortion field encompassed my relationships. The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. You urge entrepreneurs to cultivate “focused flexibility&#. Bradberry: Some entrepreneurs are fiercely focused. What exactly do you mean? What a great question.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2019

“Innovation is widely regarded as the single most important ingredient in today’s economy ,” according to entrepreneur Faisal Hoque at Fast Company. A sustaining innovation improves existing products. Other sustaining innovations are breakthrough, leapfrog-beyond-the-competition products. Sustaining Innovation Defined.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Didn’t he have that supremely important sense of how to design, market, and deliver products and services that we all really wanted ? And in his greatest trick of them all, didn’t he and Apple really give us products and services that we then found out that we really needed as well? And then go and to do better work still.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. At the same time, I was also working on the product. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

The entrepreneurs and companies that will prosper and outpace their competitors during the next two decades will be those that outthink their competitors strategically, not outmuscle them operationally. What new products or services could you innovate? Conversely, too many companies try to compete by imitating their competitors.

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Those that worked, we added capacity, services, as needed, thus variablizing the entire product development process. For someone like me who grew up in the Internet of 1997, to watch this was nothing short of revelatory. And by doing so dramatically expanded what was possible for entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And, rather than rational and helpful thoughts for entrepreneurs, it often brings out the schadenfreude in even the most talented people. We entrepreneurs have been spinning that line for decades in every boom cycle. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” It’s simply not true.

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