Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Is business school really necessary? As I read stories of college dropouts who had successfully sold tech companies, or entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who made it big on Shark Tank, it became clear that there was no set path to startup success. Business school provides a foundation in business principles.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

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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Berkonomics

MAY 22, 2014

A Private Placement Memorandum (PPM) is a special business plan defined to meet an SEC exemption. In most cases, those entrepreneurs choosing to raise capital using PPMs retain specialists (many of whom are lawyers) to write their PPMs – a rather expensive undertaking. Raising money'

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. Talk to other entrepreneurs - These are tough questions.

Equity 40

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Interestingly though, I think things end up looking pretty similar for the entrepreneur. but she will most likely now be sitting behind a $25m liquidation preference and have taken on new investors who want to exit the company for at least $240m (to get 3x on their investment). Exits Startup general interest Venice Project'

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur long before I could even spell entrepreneur. While I was still in college, I co-founded a business with a friend that made iPhone covers. So I applied and was lucky enough to be accepted at Harvard Business School, where I started in the fall of 2013.

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