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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

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Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Steve is also the author of Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. John Jantsch (02:29): So I'm curious, how did you get into the business of advising startups?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 75th Session Spotlights The Midwest

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First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant, she writes the blog Sramana Mitra On Strategy , and is author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series and Vision India 2020.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Guerrilla P.R. & SEO Most Profitable Customer Acquisition Strategies

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Nifty idea, but the business model is predicated upon selling merchandise that is curated from affiliate networks like Commission Junction. My question was around the size of the catalog that can be pulled together that will render affiliate commissions and will meet quality standards of this business.

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

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The last blogger in Silicon Valley. My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? ProfessorVC. Thursday, April 7, 2011. ► January. (1). ► 2010. (7).

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

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But Viddy isnt based in the technology hotbeds of Silicon Valley and San Francisco. "It It would have been a lot more challenging to create a business like this up there," OBrien says. Theres also eHow parent Demand Media, streaming video site Hulu, car-shopping site TrueCar and one dominant player from Silicon Valley: Google.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While Silicon Valley covers a large amount of turf, it is very small. If you have a reputation for cutting corners, not treating employees or partners right, it will become very difficult to do business. ProfessorVC. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

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ProfessorVC: A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal

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The last blogger in Silicon Valley. In this case, LinkedIn was the only logical one that came to mind and didn’t see a viable business model short of that result. I first contacted my friend, Manu Kumar, who incubated the company, coming up with the idea and finding the founders to build the product.