Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition). They know that these entrepreneurs don’t have the skill or resources to defend themselves. Software technology changes rapidly.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2018

It’s easy as an entrepreneur to want to take risks. Reverse Merger. Although some reverse mergers are legitimate, many are not. Investors typically purchase these stocks because they the demand for these stocks are huge. Penny stocks are tempting for potential quick returns but are notable for scams. Mining Scams.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

By focusing on reducing human touches and automating the sales and recruitment process, Angelichio and the Judge Group are able to minimize the cost associated with hiring additional internal staff while meeting their market demand in record time! Susanne Mariga is a graduate of the Ohio State University and the daughter of an entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. The job changes from creating a “work of art” to operating a “cookie cutter.” So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). They know that these entrepreneurs don’t have the skill or resources to defend themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Entrepreneurs love the art of the start. The job changes from creating a “work of art” to operating a “cookie cutter.” So here are the most common exit strategies and considerations these days for planning purposes: Merger & Acquisition (M&A). Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But why don’t you start by kind of giving a little bit of background on you and your journey as an entrepreneur and maybe tell us a little about your work. So I helped, I was one of his first employees and wound up becoming the chief operating officer and running part of the firm and we grew at our peak to around 50 people or so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” every patent can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors, or for M&A exits (merger and acquisition). They know that these entrepreneurs don’t have the skill or resources to defend themselves.

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Software Intellectual Property Algorithm Valuation 228

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2015

With the daily demands of running a business along with the financial pressures and challenges inherent in early-stage companies, a business valuation may not be the first thing an entrepreneur thinks of when he awakes each morning. by Janet Chase, Kaufman Rossin.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2022

The word solopreneur is a combination of two terms solo and entrepreneur. What is an entrepreneur? An entrepreneur is a businessperson who organizes and operates a business venture bearing most of the financial risk. This means that entrepreneurs don’t necessarily have to be skilled in the area of their investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. If the entrepreneur plans to grow the company into a family business, or keep it private, they will either never be interested in buying out investors, or will certainly not be motivated to provide the 10x return that investors are looking for.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2015

So that’s why we are excited about 2016 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses. Here’s something other entrepreneurs look forward to:: #1 – Reflection. Because my work involves merger & acquisition consulting, transaction schedules are notoriously unpredictable, and are constantly being compressed.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

The company has a large press event, and Marketing launches a series of programs to create end-user demand (trade shows, seminars, advertising, email, and so on). Assuming no early liquidity (via an IPO or merger) for the company, more fund raising is required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yet crowdfunding is no panacea for hungry entrepreneurs and startups. Crowdfunding may look easy, via popular sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo, but their cost in time, effort, and money by entrepreneurs is daunting. In fact, there are many types of crowdfunding, including donations, reward, pre-orders, loans, and equity.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

This article picks up from that point onward, discussing the challenges we ran into once we went into operation mode, the invaluable lessons that only first-hand experience can teach, the exit strategy which was the $250,000 sale of the website, and finally my overall concluding thoughts on the entire experience. This was a huge risk.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The realization of my idea started on an international trip when I was working as a consultant in mergers and acquisitions. by operating online). In further pursuit of this idea, I came to learn that designer merchandise is a high-demand market. We tried to leverage our small operation as much as we could.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system. Enter Facebook.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

And entrepreneurs who think that way may be hobbling the future growth and overall success of their ventures. He is also a thought leader on demand planning who has employed it with other strategies to help companies of various sizes succeed with their change agendas. But Jonathon Karelse says they couldn’t be more wrong.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 21, 2011

Sunil contacted me asking if he could apply to become a columnist on Entrepreneurs-Journey. I asked him what are the highlights of his “career&# as an entrepreneur so I could be confident in his credibility and he had stories to tell that we could all learn from. It turns out Sunil has done a few things.

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