Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Passion for sport and entertainment industry. My dad was a serial entrepreneur and had a business in the home security industry. 12- Solve a problem in international B2B payments. 22-Attract back young entrepreneurs.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. For example, Point Nine Capital focuses on B2B SaaS and marketplaces at the seed stage, across many industries. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . 4) Entrepreneur-defined funds. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g.,

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

A big piece of the solution lies in the scalable impact of entrepreneurship and an increase of successful entrepreneurs. Max continued, “That’s why I’m really interested in ways of optimizing the entrepreneurship ecosystem to allow more entrepreneurs to go from idea to reality. I was feeling pretty old.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Ernest Hemingway One of an entrepreneur’s greatest strengths is their relentless pursuit of a goal. Watching others try to solve problems reminded me why entrepreneurs are different. Entrepreneurs are Relentless Jim’s goal was to get other companies to put their software on an unfinished, buggy computer with no customers.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital. I spoke with Steve about innovation in the movie industry, and to Venk about his journey from bureaucrat in India to entrepreneur here in the U.S., and his work helping other Indian entrepreneurs through TiE, the Indus Entrepreneur network.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction | Wired Opinion - crowdspring.co/1g2t41F. 5 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Slopestyle - crowdspring.co/NteRRZ. 12 Examples of Brilliant B2B Logos (and What Made Them So Great) - crowdspring.co/1fQJCJO.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

25 Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding Their First Startup – [link]. Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder | Inc – [link]. Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore – [link]. Should Your Startup Go Freemium?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. It was a compliment.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 19, 2013

Find More Customers for Your B2B SaaS Product with These 5 Distribution Hacks – [link]. Billions have been spent trying to replicate Silicon Valley, with little to show for it. | Richard Branson on Business Lessons From Parenting | Entrepreneur – [link]. Mobile traction is getting harder, not easier.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Standup Comics – [link]. New Research: The Skills That Make an Entrepreneur – Bill J. In Silicon Valley, Hardware Is Hot Again | Businessweek – [link]. Inside the IPO pipeline: It’s all B2B, all of the time | GeekWire – [link]. Losers exist.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

But, it is likely the major differentiator between a win and a loss whether you are selling B2B or B2C. I’m aware of a sophisticated venture investor asking an entrepreneur about his CAC, and he had no answer. You probably can’t answer that with clarity until you have acquired 10,000 customers. No further conversations ensued.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

Schramm, author of “ Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do “ If I asked you to describe the prototypical successful entrepreneur, you may share a story mythologized in our culture of a brilliant young man with an idea so good and so disruptive that he just can’t waste any time finishing college.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We ARR of $500K+. ScaleWorks. “We

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

500 Startups founder and entrepreneur Dave McClure created this model as a way for growth hackers to optimize the speed of their sales and marketing efforts in generating results. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki. Guy became Chief Evangelist of Canva.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2019

Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers. The housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay area is particularly severe, given the boom in Silicon Valley hires since the 2009 recession.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I am both an avid entrepreneur and book worm but must admit to having not read most of the books on your list. This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. It is certaintly a great list to motivate me to get reading again. Keep up the great work!

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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Hippoland

AUGUST 20, 2017

This is an exciting time to be a software entrepreneur and investor. When most people think back on the late 90s, they think the dot com era was exciting because it put tech entrepreneurship on the map in a big way, and lots of entrepreneurs made a ton of money. B2B companies are also consolidating.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From expert AMAs tailored to your pre-seed needs to hands-on mentorship from relevant, established entrepreneurs within the NextView portfolio to founder-only sessions that create a safe space for sharing and supporting one another, our programming is created to meet you where you are and propel you forward in the direction we believe you can go. .

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. Silicon Valley founders and executives routinely say, “well the banker said we have to do this, or we can’t do that.” The others are all B2B companies.

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

It was one of those first meetings where you’re instantly impressed by an entrepreneur and the ambitious vision they’re pursuing. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. I first met Matija Kopic, Farmeron’s co-founder & CEO, a few months ago. link] aweissman. Good stuff Lee.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 1, 2013

Some had once argued that software is not a competitive advantage – that all the old dogs will learn new tricks and there will be little left for valley entrepreneurs and VC’s to pick over. Ironically, they are most likely not the Ivy League or Stanford grads that Silicon Valley VC’s love to back.

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Agile VC

MAY 21, 2012

On the B2B SaaS side or enabling services (e.g. Included are some of the large companies above like Google and Microsoft but also active on the B2B/enabling side have been acquirers like Salesforce.com (Radian6, Heroku notably) and Apple (Quattro Wireless, Siri). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

9 that are B2B. The others are mainly in Silicon Valley with some exceptions. Although the resumes of these founders differ quite a bit, for the most part, we back entrepreneurs with deeply authentic founding stories and a strong focus on product. We are split pretty much down the middle on consumer vs. enterprise.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

We will open our network of successful entrepreneurs and investors to offer invaluable experiences to you. Many of our mentors are entrepreneurs who have built, from scratch, a successful business. Some entrepreneurs come from a history of winning business plan competitions. JFDI is a mentorship-driven accelerator.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

For entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies on a rapid trajectory, raising larger scale venture capital rounds is likely a necessity at some point after the initial seed funding. Also a lot of other entrepreneurs frequently ask us questions like “What milestones do I need to hit to raise a Series A round from a larger VC fund?”

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I was in Singapore last week, and I was blown away by the amazing opportunities that Southeast Asian entrepreneurs have ahead of them. B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. more on this below).

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Hippoland

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

I was in Singapore last week, and I was blown away by the amazing opportunities that Southeast Asian entrepreneurs have ahead of them. B2B, for example, hasn’t even even really started as a category yet. This really resembles the era when in Silicon Valley we had Yahoo, EBay, and Craigslist. more on this below).

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Rather these firms know that there are countless bright, hard-working entrepreneurs out there thinking 24/7 about the next big thing and so they remain open to these innovative ideas even if the firm hasn’t previously formed a specific investment thesis about that space. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

Even when you’re a small fish, it’s just easier to find your way around,” he said in an interview with The Next Web on the sidelines of Silicon Beach Fest. Miller did, however, note that Cornerstone had to adapt to hiring based on potential, rather than experience, because it was hard to find candidates with B2B software experience in LA.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

There are countless B2B companies pursuing big data opportunities as well, and at NextView we think this is an incredibly exciting area of innovation. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. But “data” isn’t fundamentally a new business model, especially for consumer web companies.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. Using this model, entrepreneurs build products and plans based on what they think about their target market, then present the offer after the fact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Using examples drawn from his own experiences in the startup hub of Silicon Valley, Eric Ries unravels the myths and misconceptions that guide most startups, and paints a picture of a new way forward for the industry. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Twitter about it or post it to a social media site?

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Just under half our portfolio is B2B in nature, slightly more than half is consumer-facing in some way. As I’m fond of saying to entrepreneurs, startup fundraising isn’t about convincing the skeptics but rather finding the true believers. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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