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How Successful Entrepreneurs Launch A Startup In A Recession

YoungUpstarts

In my time as a Fractional CFO , I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly of entrepreneurship. Here is what I have seen successful entrepreneurs do: Tell everyone your idea. You will find valuable connections in the most surprising places – for example, my first referral came from a co-worker I had not seen in 5 years.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. However, those templates were usually ugly and limited. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' Viktor Marohni? Again, simplicity and ease of use wins in a long run.

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Be a Benevolent Dictator (And Eight More Lessons For Getting Your Stalled Start-up Off The Ground)

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, to many would-be entrepreneurs, getting past the dreaming phase and into the doing phase seems insurmountable — especially in a shaky economy where quitting your day job seems foolhardy and funding seems scarcer than, well, pay raises and affordable health insurance. Many a great entrepreneur has been derailed by burnout.

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Surviving The F-Word

YoungUpstarts

The majority of small businesses don’t make it past the first five years and most entrepreneurs must proceed with their career working for someone else. Mike McQuary , co-founder of Mindspring and founder of Wheego electric cars, did not expect his largest consumer base would be retired people. Force a Process.

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). One of the best things about being an entrepreneur is that there are no rules.

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. We can learn to see. Bring your questions.

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Introducing Mucker Academy: A Discussion With Jerry Jao

Mucker Lab

We’re pleased to announce the launch of Mucker Academy, a new initiative meant to help entrepreneurs understand and master the brass tacks of building a great company. Leading the way, we have a discussion with one of the first founders Mucker invested in, Jerry Jao, the CEO and founder of Retention Science.