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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

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On June 18, Aswath Damodaran , a finance professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “ Uber Isn’t Worth $17 Billion. This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” Different Economics.

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ProfessorVC: Bootstrapping 101

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I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. com The site connects to my blog on the same subject and to Amazon,where the book is sold. Blog Archive. My Blog List.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Small Business Blogs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. The Franchise King Blog. The Global Small Business Blog. Blog powered by TypePad. « Lawyers and CPAs Blogging | Main.

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ProfessorVC: Why I Hate Convertible Debt.Let Me Count the Ways

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My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. We werent able to declare a winner, but I did agree to write a blog post on the topic. This can make it much more difficult to get any bank financing, new investment, and trade credit. Thursday, April 7, 2011.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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With that in mind, I created a new course at San Jose State last year, the Entrepreneurship Lab (E-Lab). If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. blog internships. This is a great blog,this website provides very useful tips.we

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

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Once the point is reached where you want to move ahead, we put the sales hat on and convince our partners about the incredible opportunity that we are lucky enough to be able to invest on the ground floor. I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class.

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ProfessorVC: How Much Diligence is Due.

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Blog Archive. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. My Blog List. June 28, 2011 3:41 PM. Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post. Feld Thoughts.