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Second Startups: Why Founders Often Struggle to Find Their Second Act

View from Seed

However, I find that none of this is really the case, and entrepreneurs face especially tough challenges in the very beginning of their process of finding that second company to start. But some of the most successful serial entrepreneurs realize they have unfair advantages in markets they know and just keep coming back (e.g.,

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NextView’s Greatest Hits

View from Seed

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. ” (Lee Hower). ” (David Beisel). ” (Rob Go).

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Beauty On Demand

YoungUpstarts

Serial entrepreneur Samar Singla is the founder of Click Labs , a technology solution provider with 5+ years of industry experience in developing enterprise grade solutions with focus on mobility. Click Labs excels in product development outsourcing in general and building On Demand platforms in particular.

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Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

If you were built to lead instead of follow, a career as an entrepreneur might be right for you. In addition to giving our customers the power to generate and aggregate audience response data in real time, Turning Technologies has been able to collect and use customer feedback to hone our product development efforts.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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From Dyslexia to CEO: How my learning disabilities taught me to be a successful entrepreneur

The Next Web

Now that we are off the ground, I am often asked what advice I would give to other aspiring entrepreneurs with learning disabilities. Then, I would combine the aggregated data of these 2,000 or so willing students into a spreadsheet to help notify them a week, a day, or a few hours ahead of upcoming exams. Teachers are busy people!

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. And what of the product development team?

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