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17 Entrepreneurs Celebrate Summer Business Accomplishments

Hearpreneur

While many were going on vacations and traveling, business was still being completed for many entrepreneurs and business owners. We decided to ask them what their best business accomplishments as we head into the fall: #1 – Busy Season. Summer is over. We look forward to Cosmoprof every year!

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 25: Nigel and Vaughn Caldon and Kerry Frank

Steve Blank

Entrepreneurs refuse to take no for an answer. The latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere shared what they learned from having their ideas rejected and how those lessons propelled their businesses forward. We had to back-end our way into, figuring out, where is the business (model) in that? Nigel Caldon.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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Open Angel Forum NYC Recap

This is going to be BIG.

Six companies and twenty angels were able to connect up without the friction and artificial scarcity created by the “pay to playmodel and it was all made possible by the good folks at Joyent , Cooley , and Winter Wyman. Three of the six companies were led by female entrepreneurs. Hopefully, it’s a trend!

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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