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. My father loved the freedom of entrepreneurship, and I’ve had an entrepreneurial spirit since my youth when I would go door-to-door selling greeting cards and vegetable seeds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). I’m an investor at [Big Name, Large Fund VC] and recently came across [Your Company]. It's big, well known & we've invested in all of these really cool companies]. Looking forward to speaking, Name [redacted]. What fits your schedule?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

In-house, brand-name guru. There’s also a huge amount of luck in timing and amount of exits, so it’s also hard to compensate an internal “M&A investment banker” fairly for expediting an exit, given they may deserve zero credit. . Advantages. Disadvantages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

They’re the mortgage brokers and real estate agents in the housing bubble, the investment bankers and technology press in the dot.com bubble. While Shills have no credibility, Promoters have “brand-name” credibility that makes the Marks trust them. They know others will. The Shills are the middlemen in a bubble.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Gregg is an ex Investment Banker and Wharton MBA. It works well because they always had well defined roles. Evan is artist who is the creative genius who was working with the low-cost film medium in the late 90′s. It was a marriage that worked well from day 1. How do you keep the momentum after 11 years?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Questions I ask Amanda Dixon: [1:14] What’s the story behind your company name? [1:57] John Jantsch (01:14): So I have to start with the name. Amanda Dixon (01:33): Know what, there is not a story, but I need to make one up because everyone asks the story is we needed a name and a domain. So Amanda, welcome to the show.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. If anything it’s the tame version.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. You wanna tell people, obviously we've mentioned the name Hello Alice, but uh, you want to tell people where they can, uh, connect with you and find out more about Hello Alice? Scroll back to top.

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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. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

Goldman Sachs recently sold shares in Facebook at a value of $50 billion , a price greater than that of Nike, Target, eBay, and General Motors, to name just a few. Yet the blogosphere is abuzz with how Facebook usage rates and advertising effectiveness are already starting to plateau.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . Originally designed for investment bankers, it’s now also being used by VCs to help portfolio companies with fundraising.”. 10) Report.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. At the time all investment bankers secretly wanted to be VCs and many did just that. If anything it’s the tame version.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

With entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys, and investment bankers from over 18 countries represented - from places as far afield as Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain (and Santa Monica and Silicon Valley!) - it was a truly international gathering. How concentrated is this phenomenon?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Out of college, he briefly worked as an investment banker in New York, but before long heard the siren song from Silicon Valley. Here’s what happened: I started my career in Chase Manhattan Bank … then quickly made my way over to Bear Stearns because I really wanted to be an investment banker and do mergers and acquisitions. …

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

…I turned my attention away from the investment world and focused on building SoapStandle from an idea to a viable product to a legitimate company. . How did you come up with your business name? The name sums up what it is: a combination of stand and handle for bar soap — SoapStandle.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2011

There was a strong influence in my household to rack up fancy degrees, get nice jobs at brand name firms, and rise the ranks in an environment of “safety” I certainly haven’t had the most non-traditional career (unfortunately!) But as we’ve seen in the last few years, that is simply not true.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Some will be well-known names, others will be findable using a directory. An experienced investment banker will have experience with a wide enough group of capital providers at every appropriate level. And others may not be findable at all with any level of confidence.

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Jeff Hilimire

JULY 8, 2018

” My second problem is, this book is great about telling the facts (hence the name,) but light on what to do with that information. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. just to name a few! So he covers a ton of ground for industry knowledge and M&A chops. If you want to learn more about Seksom you can read his TechCrunch interview here.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

A friend calls me up from “you name it&# city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. I’ve had this conversation so many times it’s painful. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.&#.

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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 planned a nine month transition where I began working on cultivating my business’ name, plan and initial client work. Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. Admittedly, many Omaha investors are still wary of early stage investments. If you answered “cornfields” or “Warren Buffet,” you’re probably in good company. But not for long.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Research coverage for small-capitalization companies in particular has dropped dramatically.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

Example companies: Dollar Shave Club, Bonobos, Warby Parker and amongst our partners Spoke and Lost My Name. Shoreditch locals don’t want to shop in the same places as investment bankers a mile south of here. Few traditional retailers are nailing it online.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

” The story includes quotes from former National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) chairman Dixon Doll of DCM and investment banker Paul Deninger, who is the vice-chairman of Jefferies & Co. While today these companies are household names, when they went publicthey were largely unknown.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. You can't even know everyone's name. We all can name some companies that probably the crazy founder blew it up a little bit too much. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2023

She is a “recovering” investment banker; entrepreneur; speaker; economic, business, and financial commentator; content developer; and a New York Times bestselling author. So I had somebody who was quoted in the book, his name was Andrew a Egan and he's an estate planning attorney. That's dtm.world/certification. (00:55):

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