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Entrepreneur Raef Hamaed On The Professional Impact Of Personal Growth

YoungUpstarts

As a successful entrepreneur and business owner, Raef Hamaed has steadily grown his specialty pharmacy business from scratch. From inception, he has focused on creating a feasible and scalable business model, thoroughly educating all team members, and setting up the infrastructure for success. Success Starts Within.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. redemption, revenue share, etc.) Liquidity is achieved through a predefined mechanism (e.g.,

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Ardent War Story 6: Listen more, talk less

Steve Blank

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. But there was one fatal flaw. More in the next post.

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Does Elon Musk + Peter Thiel = 3 or 1.5

Professor VC

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). It takes time for the business to catch up to these market expectations and valuation. For those interested in an entertaining look back at Silicon Valley history, you can find that business plan here.

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