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[Review] Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets

YoungUpstarts

Pick the Right Business (and Business Model). Known for sticking to long-term rather than short-term investments, Buffett prefers to address the fundamentals rather than adopt technical analyses of businesses (he poo poos much of the investment banking community). It is divided into five key sections: 1.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says. Journal Community. Top Groups In Small Business. Journal Community.

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Open to All: Scholarships for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

We’re interested not only in bringing folks to San Francisco, but also in helping Lean Startup communities take root beyond Silicon Valley. Individuals can apply, but the scholarship application form is designed for a community leader to bring in a group from a geographic area or from an incubator/accelerator program.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Menlo Park and The Silicon Valley Renaissance

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To those in our eco-system who are facing this problem around the globe, I have the following suggestion: Instead of giving $100,000 to one startup, give $1,000 each to 100 startups, and put a larger number of entrepreneurs in your community through 1M/1M.