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1044 Articles match "Entrepreneur"
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
At a recent Club Entrepreneur lunch in downtown Minneapolis, I had the opportunity to meet one of the cofounders of a unique startup. The Guest post by Graeme Thickins of Tech Surf Blog
The name of that cofounder was Ion Skillrud, shown at right in the photo. The The name of his startup is Socurio , which is a new kind of "creative marketplace and community for fine art." I
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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Passion, yes, every entrepreneur has heard by now they must show great enthusiasm for their endeavor, but show me how I can get my money back someday, too. This is so much easier to say to the entrepreneur instead of "you blew it, you're too early". Worst of all, you mean it when you say it even though you know the chances of an entrepreneur re-entering the process is infinitely small, because next time I see you something With a nod to Garage Venture's Guy Kawasaki and his Top Ten Lies of Venture Capitalists , I offer my Top Ten Lies Angels Tell . When I showed a draft
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Tags: demo conference investedin phonehalo xpenser tastr startup entrepreneu Four Southern California firms are headed to Palm Springs for the DEMO launch conference next week, according to a list of the presenters released Friday. According to DEMO, Thousand Oaks-based Invested.In , Santa Barbara-based Phone Halo , San Diego-based Tastr , and Los Angeles-based Immitter will all be presenting at the technology launch conference.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Tags: Entrepreneurship entrepreneu 1. Rosalind Resnick - Founder of NetCreations
Why Why listen: Rosalind bootstrapped a company that she eventually took public. You’ll learn the trial and error that went into finding that golden idea.
2. Timothy Sykes - Author of An American Hedge Fund
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
8221;) I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done. Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. This is part of my Startup Advice series.
I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). These would-be entrepreneurs are best classified as Wantrepreneurs, as discussed in Entrepreneurial Enterviewing .
This is a reposting of a ‘classic’ popular post.
“You You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tags: entrepreneur stealt If you’re reading Mixergy, I know you routinely work hours that most people don’t know exist. Imagine if you spent all that time building your business–plus risked your money–and customers hated what you built. Want to learn how to protect yourself from that devastation?
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Henk didn't invent Tetris, but he's the entrepreneur who went into the Soviet Union to win the rights to the game, and he's the man who made it a world-wide phenomenon that's still going strong, even though the game was invented back in 1984.
This is my entrepreneur coming through. Listen to how Henk kept pushing just a little further When I asked Henk Rogers how he made Tetris a hit, he said "crazy persistence." If you listen to this program, you'll hear how his persistence kept helping him overcome obstacles that would have made others quit.
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie Andy Liu is the guy that past Mixergy guests recommended I interview because he helped them build their businesses. When I interviewed Ben Huh , he said that Andy recommended that he buy ICanHazCheeseBurger.com, and that Andy both invested in the business and helped him strategize. Neil Patel told me that Andy isn't just his business advisor, but a life mentor too. In this interview, you'll see why they rave about Andy.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie This is the story of an idea that started out as a series of conversations on message boards and quickly became a marketplace that facilitated $5 million in design work.
What I’m most eager for you to see are the steps the founders took to ensure that their new business proved itself and earned money right from inception.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Within 2 months, the entrepreneurs were profitable. From the company's About page: "We started out as GotVMail Communications in 2003, after identifying the need for an easy-to-use virtual phone system for entrepreneurs that wouldn’t break the bank. ... As And that’s exactly what our service does for entrepreneurs like you: gives you the tools to propel your small business forward."
If you like my interview, please vote for it on my favorite news site. --Andrew Andrew
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Monday, November 16, 2009
And one of the requests that I keep getting from people who watch interviews with me talking to venture backed entrepreneurs or to venture capitalists, is, they want to hear from people who built a business from nothing. Guys who are really in there, who were scrappy entrepreneurs. So if an author wants to think of himself as an entrepreneur and get a following Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mike Michalowicz is a serial entrepreneur and the author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur . Many wannabe entrepreneurs give up at that point. Housing is often an entrepreneurs’ the single biggest personal expense. Entrepreneurs don’t have those luxuries. You can complain that you don’t have enough money, connections, etc, or you can be scrappy and find a clever way to use the limited resources you’ve got.
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