Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 30, 2011

After you have heard a few startup success stories, like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, you may be tempted to invest some money yourself, maybe by pooling your funds with other investors who claim to have a great track record. My advice is to leave the investing in startups to the professionals (or friends and fools). By commission?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

Why is Collaborative Consumption Becoming a Hot Trend for Startup Companies? Consider the case of Tradesy founder Tracy DiNunzio who could only launch her startup by giving up her bedroom for a year and earning $28,000 that allowed her to not have a full time job that year. You can watch the 20-minute video of my talk if you want here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2010

See this LA Times article from last year about a likely scammer closer to startups, and an ongoing saga of events from the victim’s perspective. So what can you do, and what are the “red flags” to look for as you do your due diligence before pooling your money with other investors, or accepting money for your startup from investors?

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2016

And they have been selling these systems to other countries (Iran, Syria, Egypt, etc.). Today, China can do this in the Pacific and to a limited extent, Iran has this capability in the Persian Gulf. And yes, like any complex project they still manage to be over budget and miss their delivery schedule.). And not just one.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2018

We regularly share our favorite posts on entrepreneurship, small business, marketing, logo design , web design , startups, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! How Shyp Sunk: The Rise And Fall Of An On-Demand Startup – [link] pic.twitter.com/GQQduPHOq6. Shyp's model never was.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

The Office of Foreign Assets Control administers and enforces various economic sanctions programs; you may be familiar with the restrictions and embargoes that are placed on countries such as North Korea or Iran which are designed to put foreign policy pressure on those and other governments. Check with your banking or financial institution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

Then I checked the NY Times and realized this that the US has passed an historic nuclear deal with Iran and since for me Twitter is a real-time news platform I figured I would Tweet what I was thinking. Iran deal reached. tl;dr version courtesy of Tuvia Elbaum which made me laugh so I’m adding it after the fact.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 31, 2016

Today Dr.Zarik Boghossian shares his personal story of being born in Iran and moving to the US, the hardships he faced because of his accent, having no money and how he moved on to successfully develop a software that does the flight navigation for the international space station. Also Available On. Show Summary. Zarik holds a B.S.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Today’s Startups grow faster and with less investment needed than ever before. The teapot dictators in Iran and North Korea may get all the ink, but it is the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian technocrats with their quiet defense of free markets and trade that make hay. Here’s why: 1. Facebook that of Google. Twitter that of Facebook.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 10, 2010

This is likely the least hungover you’ll be during your time in Austin, so take advantage of it with a 9:30am panel, Innovation Overseas: The European Startup Environment. Four excellent sessions at 11am: - 2009 Iran Election will hopefully settle an ongoing argument I’m having about social media’s true impact on real-world events.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In the 21st century you need a scorecard to keep track of the threats: Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, ISIS in Yemen/Libya/Philippines, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, hackers for hire, etc. That approach doesn’t work anymore. Innovation then becomes a continuous cycle rather than a bottleneck.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” All of these are false.

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Mucker Lab

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Sam is a Persian Prince – and you know I am deeply proud of our shared Iran roots – and Theodor is Swedish. Sweden is pretty much my favorite non-Iran country. Why are Swedish startups blowing up so hard? One of the main reasons I got involved with Everipedia is that I really like the ethnicities of my cofounders.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

No matter on which side of this month’s debate over the Iran nuclear agreement you happen to fall on, we all agree that talking beats destroying and even the most ardent foes of President Obama’s deal with the Iranian government will surely agree that the attempt at an agreement is preferable to a military option.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

based founders, 35 were white* American; four were white immigrant/first generation, from France, Ukraine, Russia and Iran; and four were Indian immigrant/first generation. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Of the 43 U.S.-based

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. The Twitter Ecosystem for Startups & Investors.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. From entry-level employees to managers to entrepreneurs, the only way to create long-term sustainability is to develop people who will continue to lead. That still feels like a huge and worthwhile objective to me. 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Each time in the past that we have invented such technology, we have found new and unique solutions to manage that emerging communications medium to help us create a stronger, better society. A step change in technology requires a step change in our approach to managing its effects. The Challenge of Social Media.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. We at Remagine Ventures completed a new investment deal, continued working with our portfolio companies and in general saw IPOs, startups fundraising and succeeding at unprecedented levels. Photo Credit: AFP. But we see encouraging signs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And of course any kind of application could be written to run on this infrastructure including things like a file management system that could compete with Dropbox, a database or raw storage company that competes with Amazon’s AWS or something that doesn’t exist already in today’s world. This sounds to me like fraud, pure and simple.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. His name is Tomas Pueyo. He was not a famous author. He wasn't a media star.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

According to CFD brokerTradeFW.com , the Forex market has been affected by the Iran sanctions, when President Trump decided to withdraw the United States from the Iran nuclear deal. appeared first on The Startup Magazine. This division created a rupture in the U.S.’ This division created a rupture in the U.S.’

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