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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. This one claims to be the world’s largest angel investor network, with 850 accredited investor members throughout twenty one chapters on three continents. New England Investment Network. Keiretsu Forum.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

Both Sides of the Table

We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. I was in the midst of sizing the mobile handset markets in 3 regions: US, Europe and Asia.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , retired Army Colonel; and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania; and William J. The teaching team consisted of myself and: Pete Newell , retired Army Colonel and ex Director of the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force, now CEO of BMNT.

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HBS Entrepreneurs Founded the Most Startup Unicorns of Any MBA Program

View from Seed

Perhaps most famously, Guy Kawasaki quipped that the value of an MBA to an entrepreneur is “probably about a negative $250,000.”. The question is, can MBA entrepreneurs really think big? Key Insights. 38 unicorns, or 1 in 4 (24%), have at least one MBA founder. 63 MBA founders are represented among the 157 unicorns. Shazam (GSB, Haas).

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

Joe Felter retired Army Colonel and former deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. We were lucky to get a team of mentors (VC’s and entrepreneurs) who selflessly volunteered their time to help coach the teams.

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[Review] How Asian Women Lead

YoungUpstarts

Developed from Horan’s doctoral dissertation, the book is structured as a “multicultural narrative inquiry” focusing on the leadership experiences of women in Asia. Co-opt the inclusive network approach epitomized by Ms Chin’s ability to match work groups, family, sport teams, board activities and social groups.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

I previously touched upon the Passion/Product Fit of an aspiring entrepreneur. Once the answer is found, the entrepreneur needs to do serious research on the market he/she will be addressing. As a startup in Asia, the top 2 markets to start from are China , and India. This is by no means easy. Product/Market Fit.

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