Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2010

I’m a strong believer that investors invest in people, before they invest in a business plan, or an idea. But until now, I’ve never seen a study of exactly how that plays out for startup founders for current venture-backed companies, specifically: race, age, experience and the number of founders per company. No surprises here.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

Davis Hairdressing, a Massachusetts-based hair salon, offers a free visit to clients who prepay for a certain number of visits. When it comes to subscription businesses, key selling points are value for money and ease of use. New York startup Vive has tapped into this market. Take business to the next level.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

In its goal to make the world a better place for mothers and babies worldwide, Maternova has enjoyed landmark achievements since winning LivePlan’s $10,000 Boost business plan competition. A contract with the Center for Global Health at Partners/Massachusetts General Hospital. Eugene, OR (PRWEB) February 14, 2013.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

ViVu is also a startup (funded by DFJ, and seed funds Inventus Capital, Quest Venture Partners, and Amidzad), and true to our philosophy, we're using the 1M/1M program to give them visibility. It is very much my intention to provide similar visibility and customer access to a large number of startups through 1M/1M. Photo by svilen001.

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Up and Running

JULY 30, 2018

You must also consider other aspects such as your local market, whether to offer new and/or used cars, what startup expenses you will be facing, and how to develop a solid business plan. You’ll need to account for all of these areas and more if you want your business to take off strong and keep going for a long time.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

Big Government - or Small Business? And just a few years later - in the early 1990s - two demonstration projects (allowing people to start businesses with their unemployment benefits) were created in Massachusetts and Washington state. To some startups an unemployment check may seem too small and trivial to make a difference.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. Entrepreneurship is about more than just startups. And that might be in a startup, it might be as a founder of a startup, it might be as an early employee, as a startup.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Using crowdfunding for your startup venture is much like crowdsurfing a rock concert — and also carries the same hazards that, at any moment, someone might drop you to the ground. So why shouldn’t you skip traditional investors and take your business plan straight to the people? Traditional investors, however, can.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

In between events, Mark gave a talk titled “How Does Venture Capital Work”, Sameer gave a talk titled “Business Plan 101”, and I gave a talk titled “Do You Have The Balls To Start A Company?”. Josh Runge ‘07 and Zach Clifford ‘08 are working furiously on a task management/task optimization startup called Lazymeter.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 29, 2018

You don’t need a huge company, lots of employees, or anyone but yourself (except in Massachusetts, where you need to have two owners). Create a business plan. Use your business plan to create an operating agreement for your LLC. Who can form an LLC? The good news is that just about anyone can start an LLC.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Fortunately, social impact startups (for-profit and non-profit) are feeling the love, too, thanks to springboard organizations like Skoll Foundation , Scwab Foundation , Echoing Green and Ashoka. Here are three more programs worth considering if you want to accelerate the growth of your social-impact startup.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Here I had an entrepreneur telling me with a straight face that he was leaving the most basic business decisions for the investors to make. I am still kind of rattled today trying to figure out how entrepreneurs can be given some basic lessons on startups and funding. Tags: StartUp 101. Absurd, but most of all it scared me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

billion to work across 731 financing deals with US startups, a 50% increase over Q1 2009. To me, this indicates that venture capitalists (VCs) are looking for business, but they are clearly moving away from early-stage (pre-revenue) deals. Angels are also moving up-stage, leaving a bigger and bigger black hole for new startups.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 18, 2017

There are enough founder dynamic issues in startups that this definitely doesn't need to be part of the mix. Global EIR's will be conducting workshops on a variety of startup topics and holding office hours to work directly with students' projects and startups.

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