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Business Lessons Often Ignored In The Heat Of Passion

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience, creating a new business is at least as difficult as creating an innovative solution, and it takes a knowledge of finance, operations, customers and the marketplace. For example, the personal motorized scooter Segway was announced as disruptive technology way back in 2002, but is still not a successful business.

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The Guide to Your Nonprofit Whistleblower Policy

Board Effect

Whistleblower policies date back to 2002 with the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act , which came about as a result of corporations that misled their investors relating to fraudulent financial reporting practices. A whistleblower policy is more than a core policy for nonprofit organizations. Detail the compliance officer’s duties.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Or worse yet they may never get financed. That happened a lot in 2002 and again in 2008. That asset class need not represent the broader market. Have a cushion.

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4 Best Business Brokers To Sell A Business

YoungUpstarts

What it means for a seller is a quick and easy sale because those buyers are already qualified with financing in the works. His team understands what it is like to own and operate a business and will use that to attract the right buyer. With 19 worldwide locations, they are definitely a company that gets it done.

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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. the shift of America to a majority minority country by 2050. VCAP© provides our members with a pipeline of unique opportunities.”

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

But it’s a very challenging question to answer because what it would cost to build is a small number while operational costs are enormous.”. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! Others would say one million or a much bigger number. 4) WhatsApp.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo!

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