www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The Small Business Administration and the digital services agency 18F are trying to help entrepreneurs build successful companies and the 21st century digital government. The guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show explained how they’re working to do that. Javier Saade. Joining me on the latest show were.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

And, rather than rational and helpful thoughts for entrepreneurs, it often brings out the schadenfreude in even the most talented people. We entrepreneurs have been spinning that line for decades in every boom cycle. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” It’s simply not true.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Finance weenies not geeks. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur. I introduced myself as a serial entrepreneur. I was a serial entrepreneur. You’re a tech guy. We take MBAs. You know, business people.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. At the same time, I was also working on the product. Besides I was a young, first-time entrepreneur at the age of 23. The latter was fine by me since there was no money in the company for me to draw a salary any way.

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Those that worked, we added capacity, services, as needed, thus variablizing the entire product development process. For someone like me who grew up in the Internet of 1997, to watch this was nothing short of revelatory. And by doing so dramatically expanded what was possible for entrepreneurs.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

No matter the tale, the background behind each and every business is what fuels each entrepreneur and brand. business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Newfoundland’s Glen McKay has had a long and successful career in several industries, including construction, finance and mining. In 1997, McKay co-founded junior mineral resource company, Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. Carl Foss and Keith Phelan take care of the operations side, while I handle finance and administration.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

Legendary tech entrepreneurs, startup celebrities, and even the creators of Twitter itself are on the service. photomatt : Social media entrepreneur Matt Mullenweg is doing a little bit of everything these days, tweeting about his roles with WordPress, Automattic, Akismet, and more.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

When entrepreneurs gather to swap war stories, whether they’re meeting in person or virtually, one of the biggest categories of horrific tales are bad board stories. Every entrepreneur I know has them; I’ll even share a few of my own in this essay. They were right that I was a baby entrepreneur and had made a lot of mistakes.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

This includes matters of personnel, matters of financing, matters of product strategy, matters of goal sizing, matters of marketing. Why should I buy your product? Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. Some employees make products, some make sales; the CEO makes decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? All of these are false.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

We should have a really nice crowd of entrepreneurs, designers, and funders there and expect a great discussion. What does that mean for today’s would-be entrepreneurs? We’re so enthralled with finally getting to touch our products. It means now is the best… ([link]. 02:00 PM: Is Innovation Fair?

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Not to be outdone, on May 20, Robinhood announced , “Today, we’re starting to roll out IPO Access, a new product that will give you the opportunity to buy shares of companies at their IPO price, before trading on public exchanges.” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. NPS would soar.

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