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Why 80% Of Being An Entrepreneur And Business Owner Is About Mindset

Duct Tape Marketing

Why 80% Of Being An Entrepreneur And Business Owner Is About Mindset written by Sara Nay read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What led you to work specifically with entrepreneurs and coaches as your target market? Agency Spark Podcast with Petter-Erik Nyvoll. How do you manage your team when they are in so many different countries?

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Is a $100 Million Enough?

Steve Blank

After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups, while teaching 1,000’s of students how to start new ventures. I wonder if it’s different for today’s entrepreneurs.

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A Crash Course In Startup Labs: What Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

Led by a powerful team of entrepreneurs that takes a major role in the entire lifespan of the seed stage startup, a Startup Lab provides the backbone for its startups by building and developing a strong foundation. What really sets a Startup Lab apart is that the entrepreneurs running the Lab take a genuine role in the company.

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[Review] Startup Asia

YoungUpstarts

Asia – especially in countries such as India, China, Vietnam – is fast becoming the place where many entrepreneurs, whether locally born or lured back from Silicon Valley, are setting up shop. Finally, Fannin offers strategies for success for the aspiring (or current) entrepreneur.

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Are You Properly Managing Your Core Competency?

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, it is no secret that software pirating is still very common in China, Vietnam, and other cultures. core competency entrepreneur near shoring offshoring outsource startup' Despite some recent advances, there are still some cultures which have less regard for patents and other intellectual property. Marty Zwilling.

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Why The Government is Isn’t a Bigger Version of a Startup

Steve Blank

In the middle of the Vietnam War, student riots protesting military research forced the end of classified work on most college campuses. In a startup cluster (Silicon Valley, Beijing, Tel Aviv) a failed entrepreneur is known as “experienced.” In a government agency, they’re likely known as being out of a job.

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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, 90% of the software used in China and Vietnam today is pirated. Overall, I believe that the demise of software entrepreneurs has been greatly exaggerated. If the software is ancillary to your mission, proceed through the rest of these considerations. Intellectual property content. Protect your intellectual property.