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How Baby Boomers Fit In The Realm Of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Member of the Advisory Board. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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Startups Are Not Just The Realm Of Young Generations

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Member of the Advisory Board. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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More Successful New Entrepreneurs Are Baby Boomers

Startup Professionals Musings

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Supportive co-founder and executive positions. Member of the Advisory Board. Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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Resilience is the Only Sustainable Edge in Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Ask Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen about their first business, Traf-O-Data. More recently, most people think of Mark Zuckerberg as the creator of social media, but few remember his earlier efforts at creating video games, a music player, and Facemash, the last being his idea of a great dating app.

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The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs

www.instigatorblog.com

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards.

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech in 2018

BeyondVC

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap.

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