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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

And a few teams of super talented, educated and bright entrepreneurs make a few mill. I look for entrepreneurs who set out on their journeys to do exactly that – build big businesses. I don’t blame entrepreneurs who go for an early exit when it comes up. in their 20′s. What could be more capitalist than that?

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.

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Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name

David Teten

As an entrepreneur, you can identify un-monetized or under-monetized domain names, and then approach the owner with your startup idea. I mentioned earlier World Accelerator.com , a unique accelerator program which helps entrepreneurs build value on top of premium domain names. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.

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Are Investors Being Unreasonable? - Startups and angels: Along the.

Tim Keane

Take a look at this  article. Who the entrepreneur takes money from (see this post ) is always more important than the terms. "  The problem has been that too-high valuations and too generous terms have spawned painful down rounds that squash the entrepreneur and his early investors. 

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How to value your company for sale (Part 2)

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Most entrepreneurs would love to be in a position to have to decide! But this article is about selling, so I’ll assume that, like me, you’re like the woman in the old G. I just coached an entrepreneur who couldn’t decide whether to accept an offer for selling his business of nine years. At what price?

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Sunil contacted me asking if he could apply to become a columnist on Entrepreneurs-Journey. I asked him what are the highlights of his “career&# as an entrepreneur so I could be confident in his credibility and he had stories to tell that we could all learn from. It turns out Sunil has done a few things.