This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

If I was optimizing for cash, I would have been an investment banker a long time ago. Plus, when I look at my risks--is the risk that a legal term will shoot me in the foot or that these two founders and a prototype run this business into the ground. I have a desk in a co-working space--that''s $5k a year.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Phil Randazzo , is the founder of American Dream U , a national entrepreneurship and coaching program that helps transitioning soldiers find work or start their own business. Derek Andersen , is the founder of Startup Grind , a 200,000-person entrepreneurial community with chapters in 75 countries run by more than 1,000 volunteers.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

After I graduated from Ithaca College, I turned down a position as an investment banker because I wanted the freedom of entrepreneurship, just like my dad did. As a co-founder of a digital marketing agency, I'm already planing forward to expanding my marketing reach through other ventures. 13- Versatile.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amanda is the Co-founder at Barney an M&A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space. 17:49] Have you ever experienced a transaction where a Founder sold the company to their existing team? [18:35] She's the co-founder at Barney, an M & A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Most importantly, we have regular meetings with later-stage VCs and enterprise clients both in the US and internationally to discuss our companies which fit their investment mandates. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Carolyn Rodz co-founded a free digital platform that connects business owners with the resources they need to launch and grow. She serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. What's your history like?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. But there is also negotiating a sale, letting go of a co-founder, switching business models, rapidly scaling or rapidly cutting costs, etc. Fred Wilson (Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare) has been a VC for almost his entire career.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2017

Jamie Potter is founder of Flexciton, a company that is breaking into the new potential offered by artificial intelligence and using it at that to take a crack at the persistent problem of environment waste and emissions. Using his financial background working as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs, he launched All Shades Covered in 2016.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

6 – Investment Banker. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how early should the founders pack their bags and ship out to the U.S.? Israel has been branded the “startup nation.”

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me this week at the Stanford University studio were: Wayne Sutton , co-founder of BUILDUP VC. Dave Kashen. We had this mission.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank Rimalovski , executive director of the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute joined me in the studio to discuss how the Entrepreneurial Institute is transforming the culture at NYU; and Frank Sculli , co-founder of BioDigital Inc shares what he wishes he’d known before he started his company. Frank Sculli.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 4, 2018

There’s almost always a closing party where the board, prime investors, attorneys and investment bankers all get together to celebrate the victory. I can tell you with great enthusiasm that the high gain exits are by far the most enjoyable in every way. It is an exhilarating ending to a great journey.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. Startups are surrounded by mentors and by other founders, and can get the resources they need to be successful. Founders exited with millions of dollars, and were ready to reinvest in new startups in the city. But not for long.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations, and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

André Flórido , Betmarkets’ Co-Founder & COO of Betmarkets, answered questions about his company, shared some book recommendations and explained why he thinks obedience is overrated. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

If you’ve dreamed of being an investment banker or consultant to Fortune 1000 companies since you were 10, then Goldman Sachs or McKinsey is looking for you. If you want to be an entrepreneur, working at an investment bank or consulting firm for a while is pointless. Get your ass out of your chair and just get started.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of BaubleBar , previously worked at American Capital Securities and UBS Investment Bank. I wasn’t challenged.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)? Gregg is an ex Investment Banker and Wharton MBA. Gregg founded the company with an equal partner – his brother Evan. It works well because they always had well defined roles. It was a marriage that worked well from day 1.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Such a model is particularly helpful for those founders looking for a co-founder or key employee. While working on my most recent startup, Navon Partners , we were fortunate to have Raul Trevino , a star former Citi investment banker and Columbia MBA, interning with us.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

There’s almost always a closing party where the board, prime investors, attorneys and investment banker all get together to celebrate the victory. I can tell you with great enthusiasm that the high gain exits are by far the most enjoyable in every way. It is an exhilarating ending to a great journey.

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readwrite.com

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

And nobody is loving this more than Aaron Levie, the 27-year-old co-founder and CEO of Box, which sells cloud-based data storage and collaboration software to enterprises. Yes, suddenly the enterprise is cool again.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 29, 2009

The rules of the game for the start-up's ultimate goal, accessing the public market through an IPO, were set by the investment bankers and sales desk traders on Wall Street. And, secondly, NYC is where the big capital was - that is, after the company had matured past the VC financing stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

by Courtney Reum and Carter Reum, co-authors of “ Shortcut Your Startup: Speed Up Success with Unconventional Advice from the Trenches “ Too often we see leaders who have the entrepreneurial instinct to move quickly go wide before they’ve nailed the most crucial early steps. You minimize risk.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

The Co-Commerce Revolution – Well it isn’t really a revolution, more of a devolution. The co-commerce era is here and defined by the 3 C’s – Collaboration, Conversations and Creativity. So I thought I might pull all these thoughts together in a new edition of Soundbites from the Future – The 2013 edition.

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