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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. The reality of most startups is about survival.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Alice Brooks is the co-founder of Roominate.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 42: Tina Fitch and Alice Brooks

Steve Blank

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Tina Fitch , co-founder of Hobnob , an app that lets users send and manage event invitations via text message. Alice Brooks is the co-founder of Roominate.

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Read This Excerpt From Steve Case (AOL)’s New Book

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Melissa Moore, co-founder of Lean Startup Co. AOL co-founder Steve Case , who just released his new book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future , is one of the big thinkers we’re excited to team up with. We billed ourselves as an international mail-order company.

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What negotiation tactics does Dave Mcclure use? #500strong

Scalable Startup

My Answer to Quora Qeustion: I’ve advised several founders from 500 su and they’ve all said Dave is fair, honest, easy going, and lets you know when you’re cheating yourself. By design his operation is humble (I know, I’ve lived on Castro Street twice!). Remember, this thing didn’t exist a few years ago.

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Austin and Virginia Beach ranked most business-friendly cities

entrepreMusings

In contrast, small business owners gave Hawaii, Maine and Rhode Island an “F,” while California and Illinois rounded out the bottom five, both earning a “D” grade. The relative ease of running a business where I live is a direct reflection of the way our city and state operate and enforce the rules.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.