Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2019

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Those who come to this country with little more than hope to their name know that to get what they want they must work harder and longer than anyone else. Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

startups and small businesses. In the last 6 months, we have advised clients and investors, in no particular order, from Kenya, India, Italy, South Africa, Germany, China, Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, the U.A.E., Canada, England, South Korea, Japan, and Uruguay. startups and small businesses. So from 95%+ U.S.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Africa is a huge and diverse continent, and over the last few years, it has emerged as one of the world’s hotspots for startups. In fact, African startups secured almost a $1bn in investment funding in 2018. In Africa, entrepreneurs have serious, intractable problems that western startups don’t face.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Startup DNA. He reached out to younger founders and offered to help via his network at AT&T, Google, media agencies … you name it. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated. Media relationships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2017

including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W. Those who come to this country with little more than hope to their name know that to get what they want they must work harder and longer than anyone else. Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we talked to Mr. Tony Lakier. And what characteristics do you have that particularly contributed to your ability to jump from a startup success to a scale up success? Growing up in South Africa, I had a pet giraffe named George that followed me around.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Our startup checklist can help walk you through the steps to getting your business up and running. If you’re looking for information for specific business planning or startup resources in your country, there are a few ways to do that. Try variations on this formula: [industry name] business incubator/accelerator in [city, country].

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Segnit has an iconoclastic background under his belt, having studied engineering at Oxford University, held positions at Ogilvy & Mather and Saatchi & Saatchi, co-founded a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup, and made a minor name for himself as a radio personality at the venerable Capital FM, London’s most popular radio station.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

We wanted to share some other trends we observed; Countries have startups that play to their strengths. Brazilians like to fiesta and have a huge bar and restaurant industry, startups like our Rio finalist We Go Out are helping people to find the best parties and events to go to tonight by showing you where your friends are checking in.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Yarina, Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global, was recently named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Healthcare, one of many awards the company has received for its work. What has the startup experience taught you about life? The name of our company, Sisu, means, in Finnish, persevering in the face of adversity.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2013

It all started with the great startup entrepreneur Bobby Jones and the Wall Street venture capitalist Clifford Roberts. Remember, he’s 77… Just like any startup entrepreneur, Bobby Jones needed to raise capital to make this dream a reality, enter Clifford Roberts, the New York City financier. Let me explain….

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

Started in 2015, Backstage has now invested nearly $5M into 100 startups led by underestimated founders and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, Inc., This panel will discuss the diversity dimensions: gender, culture, age, abilities, sexual orientation just to name a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. We made some changes and things are going better. Then he devastated me.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

These are the top 5 smartest ways to generate leads for your startup… so listen in, get clued up, and start making your small business more money! Did you allocate a budget for marketing in your startup business plan ? Keeping a business blog and guest blogging on other websites are other ways to get your name out there.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My wife and I were driving home from North Dakota trying to think about a cool new name for our mattress company. Image Credit: Jeff Quinn.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags advertising , google adwords How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

While our data does apply to a US audience, the reasons for starting a business really aren’t going to be that different, whether you’re in Canada or South Africa. Do you want to tie your name to an oil industry, or offer a service that you may not be brilliant at, but that will attract a lot of customers?

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 9, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags advertising , google adwords How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic?

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I read this quote by a guy named Parker Palmer, who is an author and an activist. I learned through this process of studying companies, and individuals, and entrepreneurs, people like Walt Disney, and Mother Teresa, and hundreds of people whose names I didn’t know until I started undergoing this study of writing this book, The Art of Work.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 29, 2012

Bring up social entrepreneurs and one of the first names you’re likely to encounter is that of Muhammad Yunus. Harrison says he regards charity: water as a for-profit startup that has no profits, saying, “We give away 100% of our profits. Muhammad Yunus. Willie Smits.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 23, 2015

business #startup #entrepreneur #quotes #quote. As a Director of Marketing in the startup world, never a day goes by that I’m not awash in new ideas, techniques, and concepts. So, that day, all I did was pick a name for the podcast. Below are some of those quotes sent in by entrepreneurs throughout the world. 1) The Dark.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2013

On StartupBus a team of strangers, traveling at 60mph, have about 72 hours to conceive, build, and launch a startup. That’s just how we roll in the Startup Community. Some guy named Humberto Ceballos is the “ documentarista “, whatever that means. Why they gave me the megaphone? All for one & one for all.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

B efore we literally kick off the first ball in the 2010 South Africa World Cup, below is a collection of interesting links on Israeli startups and more for the week of June 11th: Interesting startups of the week. Each week I’ll be profiling 2-3 startups that caught my attention. Miscellanous.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 14, 2018 From all around the world, 50 diverse startups will come together to compete at the 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event on March 10 and 11. The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. What is GoTech’s competitive advantage?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2016

This morning I’m going to talk about the Mobile App ecosystem and why it’s led so many startups astray. You can change your name if you want to be called something else in the app. Below your name (and that of others) is a number and it took me for freaking ever to figure out WTF this was.

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