Steve Blank

MAY 5, 2016

Founders will always encounter naysayers, shut out the voices and listen to the customers instead. Two lessons from the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Joining me in from the studio at Stanford University were: Guido Kovalskys , co-founder and CEO of Nearpod , a learning platform.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Email address: Home. These days, start-up entrepreneurs like Parker do sometimes use equity not only to motivate key employees but also to help pay for consulting and other services. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Newsletters.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2017

As an entrepreneur, instead of looking for an internship or part-time job while at school, I found that leveraging the available collegiate resources such as professors’ advice, library, connections, and things as little as a printer to pursue a startup venture was a great extracurricular activity. Keep a cash cow: Your monthly revenue goal.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. Want to learn more about me?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. It’s like a dam has broken and now there is a flood of new entrepreneurs, investors, and big companies moving to Texas. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Matt is an entrepreneur and the Vice President of Marketing & Communications at Lulu.com, as well as a self-diagnosed collaboration junkie. Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Nudge, hosted by Phil Agnew. 00:50): This is John Jantsch.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. “Email” is not the answer. Your emails are probably misinterpreted 40% of the time, by the way.) Recruiting.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

thought it would be helpful to put some of my thoughts into a blog post and hopefully spur some conversation in the comments and over email. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. More tiers = more complication = more confusion. Dying at 70? Dec 26, 2009).

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Are you a first time entrepreneur and looking for angel funding for your startup? They want to “touch and feel” their investments, so email blasts are out of the question. Not only are angels not interested, but it is much more work for you to do follow up with the thousands of people you sent an email to.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. How much would an extra $1000 or $2000 per month help during that time? It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

A reminder that it is important for all entrepreneurs is to remember to be careful about “deal drift.” My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. We need more.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. Co-workers arent’ comfortable with commandeline/Tortoise. Enter VisualSVN.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So he and I exchange emails and ideas, especially when it comes to storytelling and oxytocin and all that good stuff that he does the. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. Connect with Carmine on LinkedIn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

As a result, sitting here on this plane, Ive been pondering what message I want to deliver on behalf of startups and entrepreneurs. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? So what are good entrepreneur-friendly policies? September 10, 2009 4:37 AM Dale B.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. So you want to be an entrepreneur, huh? I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. So you wanted to be an entrepreneur, huh?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. It’s free. During this year they.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. He started by using email (send your eCard to a friend) and there he sees 3-4 clicks back per share action. Here’s the link.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Instawork was cofounded by Sumir Meghani in San Franciso and was a member of the 2015 Y-Combinator class. If you are a founder who is excited about starting a new marketplace, there are two caveats that are important to remember.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. for college students and recent grads to work in startups.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- After the birth of my daughter. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. However, as most entrepreneurs will experience, when equity and pay come into play, relationships tend to warp. Photo Credit: Lisa Cash Hanson.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 8, 2013

William Hsu is the co-founder and managing partner of MuckerLab. Investment stopped, and entrepreneurs focused on other categories. It turns out that network effects can be broken – Amazon and StubHub took on eBay in the mid 2000’s. Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion How-To''s'

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. That’s the entrepreneur we are looking for.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each entrepreneur and brand. The system is used by over 2000 companies in 30 countries, helping them to achieve better results in almost every digital marketing and sales field. My journey as an entrepreneur began at N.C. Tell Your Business Story! .

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. How did you go from VC to founder?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. I’ve been an entrepreneur for almost as long as I can remember. My founders and I started the company about three years ago.

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