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

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. 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. times at six years.

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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.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Interestingly though, I think things end up looking pretty similar for the entrepreneur. In this case the investment is largely in the form of time committed to the startup, and hence the downside is the time lost to other opportunities. Locking into arrangements that demand a high exit is a form of rigid business plan.

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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.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

million for the SaaS startup I founded because sometimes we see success coming out of the blue, when really that person benefited from a broad network of support. I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur long before I could even spell entrepreneur. If you want to run a startup, go with what you know.

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