Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? It only seemed logical for Akos and his partners to bring this concept to the US.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It was my first time in the city and I must say that I was immediately taken by the energy of the city and of the entrepreneurs that I met at the conference. One of the big data team collected and analyzed all the data of accidents on Route 101 linking San Francisco to San Jose.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Cool student entrepreneur story out of San Jose State University where students and recent alum use the school’s business plan competition to raise basic funding and launch a beta product for their student note sharing service. New Web site lets students share notes from SJSU classes – News.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

Raising the minimum wage in Silicon Valley (beyond San Jose which has already done so) is a very important and rational thing to do for the economic health of the valley, California, and the USA economy as a whole. Let’s put politics aside for a moment and pretend the minimum wage is not a party-centric issue.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In 2016, Miami posted a startup density of 113 small tech firms per every thousand companies, and the city’s rate of new entrepreneurs is nearly 0.5 percent, higher than San Francisco. The City by the Bay has earned the title of being the new heart of Silicon Valley, a distinction once bestowed upon San Jose.

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Agile VC

JUNE 24, 2014

Success in the World Cup, just like success as an entrepreneur, depends on a mix of skill, hard work, and luck. As a tech entrepreneur you know that the odds are long from the outset, that most startups are ultimately unsuccessful. Those of you who know me are probably aware that I’m a rabid soccer (football) fan.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

I moderated a panel discussion last night on one of my favorite topics, bootstrapping, as part of our Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship Eminent Speaker Series at San Jose State. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 2, 2011

During today's roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and also had a segment on our yearlong engagement with incubators around the world. As for the pitches, first , Eddie Godshalk from San Jose, California, presented QuantGeo , a geospatial data service for real estate investors, property buyers, banks, etc.,

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2013

For a long time I’ve suggested that an interesting measure of entrepreneurial density would be ((entrepreneurs + employees of startups) / total population). The Connection Between Venture Capital and Diverse, Dense Communities. In it, he looked at Venture Capital financing (total dollars and number of deals) on a per-capital basis.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This really hit home while I was walking in San Jose and came across a Tesla storefront. Now, as an entrepreneur, I have recognized actions you can take in your business that play into the hard wiring of your customers minds. Sure you’re better than the competition, but how are you different? A retail storefront for their cars.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we put a special focus on entrepreneurs in the northwestern part of the United States, and we had three presenters, all from Washington. We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. Wise Mind Studios LLC. Social Pulse.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Fantag was started in San Jose and moved to Sacramento to take advantage of this ecosystem. I met Brian Dombrowski and Scott Bennett, who had been building the company in San Jose. I made an introduction to John Stone, a local investor and entrepreneur, who had founded software company PowerSchool that sold to Apple.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Roughly 1,200 miles away in the heart of Silicon Valley, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. Entrepreneur Insider United States Analysis and Opinion' We couldn’t agree more. Image credit: Evan Meyer /Shutterstock.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

What’s your favorite thing about being based in San Jose, Calif.? If you are an entrepreneur, check out the SXSW 2020 Startups Track , which runs March 13–17. That was actually the reason for me to get into computer science, but somehow I never crossed the path with the game industry. Don’t be stressed?—?tomorrow

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2020

Harmonate, based in San Jose has developed private fund data operations tailored to the complexities of tracking social impact investing. There are fintech companies that are especially well equipped to help best practices and morality rise to the top. I’ve had the chance to work with many of them to see it firsthand.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2010

Let’s start with a high level discussion in the San Jose Mercury News article titled Startup boot camp illustrates dearth of women in tech. If you are interested in this issue, I have three articles from the last 24 hours that I encourage you to read.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The Changing Face of Entrepreneurs. The Connected World of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur Magazine Blog. San Jose Mercury News: Maker Faire Mixes Business With Wackiness. Business Week: Twitter for Entrepreneurs: 20 to Follow: Steve King. immigrant entrepreneurs. Defining Small Business Innovation.

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 18, 2013

As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. Business Funding Business Plan entrepreneur entrepreneurship VC Venture Capital' Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

At a high level, I definitely agree that being an entrepreneur and being in school dont necessarily mix. Most of us know of Exhibits 1 ( Bill Gates ) and 2 ( Mark Zuckerberg ) from Harvard, but I have met dozens of other successful entrepreneurs who felt a greater need to get going on an opportunity than to wait around to complete a degree.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

However, I have seen some blog posts posing the question about whether the same principles of valuing baseball players could be applied to entrepreneurs. I encourage entrepreneurs to give it a shot and let me know what you think. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. September 27, 2011 5:09 PM.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MARCH 6, 2014

EGFS presenting in day-long “Equipping Entrepreneur” workshop at Googleplex to support startups in the autism space. San Jose, CA (PRWEB) March 05, 2014 Autism Speaks is holding its second annual Autism Investment Conference (AIC2014), March 4 and 5, 2014 in San Francisco.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 20, 2012

And I’m in Austin, not San Jose, where there’s 100x fewer customers I could land at meetups. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. And there’s no Twitter or Facebook (or even a strong culture of blogging) to enable my few zealous fans to spread the word.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) May 19, 2015 Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) is pleased to announce its first-ever panel event focused on cannabis-based businesses. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 12, 2017

All of their headquarters sit in a 50-mile stretch from San Francisco to San Jose. In this week’s Masters of Scale podcast , we ask this of Linda Rottenberg, the CEO and co-founder of Endeavor, which selects, mentors, and accelerates high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. of the world’s population!

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

This will also serve as a good pointer for all the entrepreneurs who ask why I am not interested in their company led convertible note financing round. Ive seen a number of entrepreneurs, angels and VCs fall into the trap of providing debt in small pieces. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

While spending time with the entrepreneurs and championing the deal through the group, you tend to become emotionally attached. In most cases, the entrepreneur hasnt hidden anything, it is just buyers remorse kicking in and the realization that the hard work is beginning. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 8, 2021

Due to the accelerated growth in 2020, the imbalance between real estate supply and demand has increased, opening opportunities for entrepreneurs for investments in both residential and commercial real estate. Investment real estate can include houses in San Francisco or San Jose. How Does Inflation Impact Real Estate?

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. I let him know that he just accomplished two things - left a bad taste with the entrepreneur and opened the door for the next investor to ask for a multiple preference that is senior to yours.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Natural language statements examples such as “download album #8832” or “take ABC to airport” make it easy for entrepreneurs to get up and running.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2008

Im going to continue to follow the paths of entrepreneurs turned VCs turned entrepreneurs again and see how it evolves. Labels: entrepreneur , entrepreneurial finance course , venture capital. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Steve Bennet. at 12:47 PM. Email This BlogThis!

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The NIF (in its 5th year), is essentially a science fair for entrepreneurs. Here are a few of the budding entrepreneurs that I chatted with at the event: Jeff Gibboney, a graduate mechanical engineering student, developed a battery operated skateboard for cruising to school or work.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Do you have the right make-up to be an entrepreneur? You need to be true to yourself and many people arent cut out to take the personal and professional risk associated with being an entrepreneur. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. One group charges entrepreneurs "an administrative fee" to present to the group. Touched by an Angel. for a total of $10.5M

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Gust

AUGUST 8, 2012

I’m no UI/UX designer or product manager, but I do work with entrepreneurs daily. Entrepreneurs building new products and services are passionate about them, wanting more than anything to beat the pants off the competition and dazzle potential customers with their creations such that they willingly part with their hard-earned money.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

For firms that dont have access to the most successful entrepreneurs, trying to predict an individual or individual teams success rate based on experience, personal attributes, intellect, etc. might very well be a good way to find some promising first time entrepreneurs. The darts seem to be doing quite well over the past few years.

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