Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2023
Dual-Use Technology As the war was winding down, the leadership of the Navy Computing Machine Lab in OPS-20-G was thinking about how they could permanently link commercial, academic and military computing science and innovation to the Navy. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Paul when the Navy team met John Parker.
Up and Running
JULY 24, 2014
Having worked previously as an investment banker, Fancy knows the importance of sitting down and creating a feasibility plan for a business, and took the same approach when it came to starting a nonprofit venture.
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Hearpreneur
AUGUST 11, 2021
The necessities will be driven by execution and leadership. The key drivers of tomorrow's entrepreneurs will be people management and leadership. 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. 13- Versatile.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.
Duct Tape Marketing
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
So yeah, I just recognized, gosh, there's this huge gap above a business broker below an investment banker. Do you have a leadership team? That's just living in, uh, no man's land. Are they all SMBs small businesses or do you have enterprise really big clients? What does your sales and marketing team look like?
YoungUpstarts
MAY 7, 2012
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at The Independent , May 16, 2006: As an economist, Nigeria’s Minister of Finance and current World Bank presidential candidate brings something completely different and equally valuable to discussions of entrepreneurship than CEOs and investment bankers. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Organizational leadership is rarely vested in the lone genius, a.k.a. There’s the example of one of my clients, a highly successful investment banker, who told me that nearly one-quarter of all his lifetime revenue had come through one law firm partner he had developed a close relationship with early in his career.
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