YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

I was thrilled that what I did employed 50,000 people and did business in every state but Vermont, with international operations in China, Japan, Brazil, and Mexico. Like many successful entrepreneurs and operators at this stage, I live to work rather than work to live.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. . There was a lot of interest.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

After OfficeMax’s first year, we’d actually grown nicely and were operating stores in Ohio, New York, and Michigan. Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors. Better yet, we’d done so with no real casualties and just a few wounds.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

How to recognize when it’s time to pull the plug on your startup idea, and why founders can’t operate afford to operate in a vacuum were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Seen was recognized as the “Innovation Game Changer” at the 2012 Ohio Interactive Awards. . There was a lot of interest.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 3, 2011

This protocol not only accelerated our growth but set a management style for executives to operate in a similar know-what’s-happening fashion. It’s always a good idea to treat your team as participants and partners in whatever you’re doing… not just as people to blame when something goes wrong. Use your negatives sparingly.

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Up and Running

MAY 5, 2015

When MeCam set up manufacturing operations in Taiwan, CEO Drew Martin had never been there and had never met the people in charge of the operation face-to-face. ” Virtual meetings are undeniably cost-efficient when it comes to discussing business with clients, employees, and business partners.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Check out this article in Time Magazine : Restricted from operating independently in India, foreign institutions have been able to get a toehold by setting up joint ventures with Indian colleges. From Northwestern to North Dakota State, hundreds of foreign schools have found partners.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar. Marketing/Sales/Partners. Sales channels, sales and marketing partners. – No partners identified. ++. Key partners in place. Competitive products are weak. — Haven’t even discussed sales channels. ++.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2015

Hopefully, you’ll be inspired to find the path that makes the most sense for your specific operation. For starters, before you can think about opening another location, you need to make sure your existing ones are operating like well-oiled machines (i.e., See Also: How to Find a Business Partner. Expand to new locations.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

It’s time for the nation’s education leaders to start operating like scrappy entrepreneurs. Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors. After opening initial laboratory test stores in Florida and Ohio, a national roll-out is now underway.

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

He owns and operates his pizza consulting business – Michael ShepherdConsulting, LLC – helping existing and aspiring pizza operators with their pizzerias. Michael Shepherd is also owner/president of 70X7 Incorporated that operates Six Hundred Downtown, a full service pizzeria, in Bellefontaine, Ohio.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. the previous year. Comcast Corp., and Verizon Communications Inc. Of the 6,613 U.S.-based

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States. Seven years later, they've trained about 5,000 students and created over 1,000 new technology jobs in Fresno.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2011

You should instead lead as a benevolent dictator — “benevolent” being the operative word — who always puts the company, the employees, and, most importantly, the customer, first. Michael Feuer cofounded OfficeMax in 1988 starting with one store and $20,000 of his own money, a partner, and a small group of investors.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

We are encouraging all of our companies to put in place a dual-class share structure if and when they go public, said Marc Andreessen, a general partner at the firm, which has taken stakes in 156 tech enterprises over the past three years. In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 POST A JOB.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

My research was valuable enough for a large corporation that is known for creating a popular operating system to give us about $250K in funding. I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. I was a Ph.D. student working towards becoming a research scientist with a large R&D lab. Photo Credit: Steven Randall.

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