YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 21, 2014
Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit venture development organization Start Co. “I’m looking forward to seeing this cohort of early stage entrepreneurs take the stage at the Orpheum Theater to showcase their work and share their experiences from the Summer of Acceleration with the community,” shared Mathews.
Hearpreneur
APRIL 8, 2018
Coming up with a business name can be one of the most challenging tasks that an entrepreneur will ever face. I’ll be honest, when I’m naming a business or a blog (I’m a bit of a serial entrepreneur), I always turn to a process I call ‘drunken brainstorming.’ Thanks to Corey Schwartz, Loanatik ! #5- Photo Credit: Richard Taylor.
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Ben's Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2010
Gaurav Dhillon was one of the great enterprise entrepreneurs of the ‘90s and early 2000s. Ordinarily, we would automatically disqualify an entrepreneur with such a massive financial success from funding, so when he came into pitch us on his new company SnapLogic I was skeptical. Informatica is currently worth over $4B.
Steve Blank
APRIL 27, 2009
Every movie I had seen – 12 O’clock High, Memphis Belle, etc. – assumed that there were no electronics other than radios on these bombers. This lack of information meant that every World War II movie or book that had airplanes on bombing missions in it was wrong. Every one of them. (To
Hunter Walker
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
investors don’t care who else is in the round In fact, the experience of founders in Manchester, Montreal and Memphis are far more alike than they are different (at least, according to the numbers). I gave this advice to a couple entrepreneurs once that were killing themselves trying to find away to keep their company from going to zero.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 22, 2012
Lest you think these lessons are mere ideas, Averwater is clear to provide an example in many of the 427 lessons that occurred in his own experience with his own music retail business (Memphis-based Amro Music Store, if you need to know, and now one of the largest musical instrument retailers in the U.S.).
YoungUpstarts
MAY 12, 2014
One of those real-world examples is FedEx, the Memphis-based delivery company. When I visited Fred Smith, chairman and CEO of FedEx, at his Memphis headquarters, he said strategy was his company’s top priority. Karlgaard hails FedEx for being strong on all three sides of his triangle of lasting success.
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