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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. ” So I wrote a 9-page charter of what I thought we should do.

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Why You Need Business Development w/ Hunter Boyle of AWeber

ConversionXL

Channel Partners. Partnering with too many companies with customers aren’t similar enough to yours could have a dramatic negative impact on your conversion rates. Take for example, New Jersey chocolate makers Chocomize. ” His answer, “I’m a big fan of the lean startup methodology[.]

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: SignNow.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Our first week of launching NotaryNow, we received multiple threats via message boards, forums, and I even got a call from a notary threatening to “Wring my F*ing neck&# and to “Stay the F*ck out of New Jersey&# if we did business in there. This is how we found crowdSPRING to do some logo and website design work for us.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

14:06) Jen gives a New Jersey local government example of how the USDR works and how the organization is working at "The speed of need." (16:54) My partner has a start-up and we went to his office and borrowed a bunch of office equipment and set up some real home offices. 4:48) Jen and Raylene's best quarantine tips. (5:50)

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. I think there are some real virtues to that, however, when I talk to my business partner, Ishan [Sachdev], about it, I use a slightly different metaphor: I talk about Jiro [Ono], Nobu [Matsuhisa], and Benihana. On Deciens’ Lean Operation.

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Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

As she recalls, "once we as a team and ecosystem of stakeholders got our plan together--and a big part of that was our incredible school partners, who said, 'We are going to feed as many kids and families as we can,'-- within a week, we were building at light speed what would be the next iteration of Revolution Foods and our feeding system."

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. New Hampshire. New Jersey.