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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs are inherently risk takers.

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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 is a series of templated websites for matching angel investors seeking investment opportunities with entrepreneurs seeking capital.

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Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment

Steve Blank

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. In my short time in Chile, I spent time meeting with: Chilean entrepreneurs ; as part of Santiago’s Startup Weekend as well as EmprendeUC - DUOC New Ventures Contest Awards ceremony. Creating the Next Silicon Valley – The Chilean Experiment.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs. As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family.

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Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma – Customer Development in a Big Company

Steve Blank

We spent two days of analyzing and exploring their customer discovery visits just completed across South America, Africa and Asia. There’s an Overhead Cost to Being an Entrepreneur in a big, established corporation. Their copies of the Four Steps were dog-eared and marked with sticky notes.

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Entrepreneur Runs Coding Academy To Help Students Gain Real-world Software Development Skills

Hearpreneur

Ricigliano is a stubborn entrepreneur who doggedly pursues the “why” behind every thought. Our team, all the way from the US to South America, works together sharing the same values, vision, and approach. Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? towards finding a new job in the field.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Colombia, South America. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. Then everyone just started calling me a serial entrepreneur.

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