Steve Blank

JULY 6, 2016

How and why the State Department is involving the nation’s top innovators in its efforts was the focus of my interview with Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. From 2002-08 Sec. Blinken was Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 29, 2018

I came up with the name Flauk (like a flock of birds) because our business centers around being the entrepreneur’s team, or flying V. In 2002 we bought roughly 150 domain names, most of which we still own. Funny, I don’t think in 2002 it was called crowdsourcing, but that is how DesignAShirt got named.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Luck, timing and social engineering are bigger components than most entrepreneurs care to imagine,” adds Werdelin. Now that the barrier to entry to start a business is so low — $100K in many cases — entrepreneurs are faced with a different problem: standing out from the crowd and getting their product into the right hands at the right time.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Support families. My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. Photo Credit: BJ Nickol.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Provide pet owners with the information and education. I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company. Photo credit: Dr. Tim Shu.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 27, 2019

We knew that entrepreneurs have the best playlists and we decided to ask them their favourite tracks. #1-Break I’ve been an entrepreneur for a little over three years now, and Cardi Bs’ Bodak Yellow is most definitely my motivational Jam. It also embodies what every entrepreneur deals with. 3- Bodak Yellow.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! Entrepreneurs and executives that build sellable companies embrace the role of luck in business success. They Are Lucky.

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Mike Michalowicz

MAY 23, 2016

Chock full of tips and strategies that are applicable to any entrepreneur of any level, regardless of your background, welcome to Episode 90 of the Profit First Podcast! He moved to San Diego in 2002 and taught Engineering at Morse High School for five years, despite never having an Engineering degree. Our Guest .

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2002, the city established Medellín ACI at (Medillín ACI.org), is the Agency for Investment and Cooperation. The government creates programs to help entrepreneurs. Companies promote international relations. The company fosters development by promoting strategic international relations and foreign investment in the city.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. Australia Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion Investigations Lists Roundups'

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Up and Running

JULY 23, 2014

Aside from the investor-oriented exit strategy, which is a factor in every outside investment, you’ll occasionally hear about a different kind of exit, when the startup founders, the entrepreneurs themselves, sell their company and turn their ownership in a business into money.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 23, 2014

Eric’s keen intellect, his experience as an entrepreneur and CEO, his depth in infrastructure and enterprise software, and his infectious optimism about technology make him an ideal Benchmark partner. Eric is one of the up-and-coming stars in the technology industry, and we are very excited he is becoming our partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 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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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

By Trevor Blake, author of “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life “ I have found that many entrepreneurs struggle with the same basic difficulties. It is only when we revert to selfish gains that we neglect the most important entity of entrepreneurism, which is the customer. Fourth is your purpose.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. Lastly, angels want to serve as mentors to the next generation of entrepreneurs. However, those angels constitute only about 4% of the estimated 7.1

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

I’ve come up with my business name: Ebooks4fashion, because I wanted to create a platform of fashion marketing that helps fashion entrepreneurs, most women to start or to grow their business, through ebooks and online courses. #5- Align with the purpose. Photo Credit: Maristella. 10- A name after a creek behind the building.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I was in the middle of that with Interliant (I was a co-founder) – we bought 20+ companies, at one point has an almost $3 billion market cap (on $200 million of revenue – recognize the multiple), but went bankrupt in 2002. In this case, Coding School Rollup definitely rhymes with all the rest.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here’s the responses. #1- In every field, from medicine to real estate, the limits of VR are being tested as entrepreneurs find new ways to engage with customers. 1- Virtual reality. Photo Credit: William Griggs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. We were based in London.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2020

by Wayne Titus, author of “ The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being “ Some of the most compelling stories of the coronavirus pandemic include the those of entrepreneurs who saw a new opportunity and jumped in with both feet. For most entrepreneurs, their business is their passion.

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thebarefootvc

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This hustle is familiar to entrepreneurs worldwide. One of the most Modi, who won in a landslide election with a clear mandate for economic reform (despite controversy surrounding his role in sectarian riots in 2002), is fully aware of the lofty expectations of those he governs.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? If you can and if you want to – you should.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The company’s founder, Amir Peleg, is a serial entrepreneur who previously also founded Yadata, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008, Unipier, and EVS, which went public in 1991. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Until 2002 – when the Oakland A’s’ baseball team took advantage of analytical metrics of player performance to field a team that competed successfully against much richer competitors.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. Before diving in completely in the beginning of February, 2012, I'd had a handful of false starts learning to program dating all the way back to high school.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Boris is currently based in Vancouver, Canada and has been since 2002, after his own company, JustBooks, was acquired by AbeBooks. His almost imperceptible German accent my only indicator of his personal background. This is not a man that blows his own trumpet. The inextricable link between you and your idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. Bring your questions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale " in the Harvard Business Review. This is generally a required quality for a successful entrepreneur, but it can turn into an unhealthy stubbornness during the scaling stage. Absolute control.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2019

Entrepreneurs are getting younger these days. If you’re a young entrepreneur looking to diversify your investment portfolio , you should consider investing in coins. Now that you know how investing in coins work, find out why young entrepreneurs should start diversifying their investment portfolio with precious coins.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

A different but related issue: Some former entrepreneur family offices like to talk about their hot hedge fund manager on the golf course. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. Such individuals can become addicted to the chase. Our value in the past has come from big tactical asset allocation bets.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. 10 – Obsessed with Entrepreneurs & Music. I am obsessed with entrepreneurs. Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc !

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale." " From my experience, here is my interpretation of that work, identifying some strengths of an entrepreneur during early startup stages which can become problems for scaling: Perseverance. Absolute control.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition to being a co-founder of NextView Ventures, Lee was an early member of PayPal and a founding team member at LinkedIn, so he speaks as both a former entrepreneur and a VC. For example, when we started LinkedIn at the end of 2002, each member of the founding team essentially had a couple chunks of founders’ common stock.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My Experience Back in 2002/2003 I spent hours writing a sales letter and emailing it to 15 local design firms, offering my services as an outsourced development staff (I coded in PHP,NET and Java at the time). Check out my book Like this post?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. Paddy Cosgrave was a young entrepreneur in Dublin and a couple of years after the crash was talking with a mate of his who had a brand new hotel opening but had no clue how he was going to attract visitors. It will not.

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