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EntrepreneurFinder.com – Helping Entrepreneurs Find Talent, Investors And Each Other

YoungUpstarts

Entrepreneur Finder ( www.EntrepreneurFinder.com ) is a free interactive resource for entrepreneurs, skilled professionals, students and investors to find each other and designed to help startup companies grow. The idea for Entrepreneur Finder came to Deering from a pain point he suffered as an entrepreneur himself.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. B2B marketplaces will be particularly useful in heavily fragmented verticals where companies can source from a myriad of suppliers.

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Want To Scale Effectively? Start Thinking Like A Ten Person Team When You’re Still A Solopreneur

YoungUpstarts

by Mario Peshev, author of “ 126 Steps to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur: The Entrepreneurship Fad and the Dark Side of Going Solo “ Running a business alone is challenging, but this is usually not the end goal for beginner entrepreneurs.

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Ardent War Story 5: The Best Marketers Are Engineers

Steve Blank

Other advisors provided marketing with industry-specific advice in our initial vertical markets (computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, finite element analysis, and petroleum engineering). Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.

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How to Find and Close Angel Investors from a Standing Start

View from Seed

Whether an entrepreneur is raising a smaller (pre-)seed round entirely from individuals or she has a seed-stage or larger VC firm involved in (leading) the seed syndicate, it’s somewhere between necessary and optimal to have multiple individual angel investors involved. First and foremost, angels can provide capital. Affinity by industry.

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5 Things You Should Know Before Hiring A Development Shop

YoungUpstarts

Most dev shops are good at one technology over another, or focus on UX or even a vertical like healthcare. She is also cofounder of Entrepreneurs Unpluggd and an MBA candidate at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Most have an emphasis. This should give you insight into which firm is best for you.

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Don Estridge, IBM PC Father, Startup Role Model

Startup Professionals Musings

IBM had traditionally done all its own vertical technology development, so this outside vendor thing broke all the rules. Mbps, a factor of 5000x As with many successful entrepreneurs, Don Estridge was a humble man, who was actually embarrassed by the size of his office, as his stature and rank grew in IBM. mHz, now 3.0 Marty Zwilling.