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397 Articles match "Companies","Ideas"
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
The DEMO conference announced the lineup of 65 companies that will share their products and value propositions to the technology community at DEMO Spring 2010 on March 21-23 in Palm Desert, California.
Judging by the companies he has selected to launch on the DEMO stage he certainly is off to a great start.
DEMO has also brought back the Alpha Pitch program that features DEMO has officially started today and we will be there starting tomorrow. For For DEMOfall 2009 we pretty much hit it on the nose for the DEMOgod award winners , let's see if we can nail it again this year.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
Large companies can be strange sometimes. As I’ve observed the following scenario in both of my companies and in countless others I’ve advised or invested in:
- your company becomes moderately high profile in a few press articles
- They negotiate a “master agreement” to work with your company with some maybe This is part of my ongoing series on Startup Advice
As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Are you an "Ecopreneur" with an early stage clean technology company? The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today's most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. Just by entering you'll immediately start receiving resources and support to grow your company into a successful, sustainable business. Thursday, March 25, 2010 -- OCTANe and Cleantech Open: 2010 Competition Breakfast Briefing. Enter the 2010 Cleantech Open Business Competition.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
An aspiring entrepreneur on Hacker News recently asked, “I want to start a startup, but have no ideas. Mike Jones told us how he built a chat application for a consulting client and then turned it into userplane, a company that he sold to AOL.
Bring an existing idea to a different platform
What should I do?” 8221;
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Monday, August 24, 2009
The first company he founded failed, but now Darrin Clement is running a multi-million dollar mapping business that he founded and bootstrapped. How did he go from having to close down his previous company to winning so many customers at this one?
His first big leap into entrepreneurship was launching Optiwave, a fiber optic consulting company. The simple answer is he learned to sell. This program will show you how he did that and what YOU can learn from his experience.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Bob is a Director and long-time member of the Pasadena Angels, has been investing in early stage companies for 5 years, and has been held numerous “C” level positions at private and publicly traded companies. To set the stage, as an early stage investor, I look to invest in a “perfect storm” company. I’ll leave the discussion of what comprises a great idea and a great Following on the heals of last week’s post from Andrea Belz, we have another guest blogger, Bob Aholt. Bob also teaches graduate level finance courses at Antioch University.
By Bob Aholt
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Such ideas require little-to-no capital, usually last for a relatively short duration and are of nominal size.
Note that I am not purporting that these are particularly amazing or unique ideas. This mini adVenture did so well that not only did the student earn enough money to travel to Europe after graduation, the entrepreneur franchised the idea to a lower classman, who then sold the same prints the following year and split the profit with the entrepreneur who originated This is a reposting of a ‘classic’ popular post.
When viewed from The Fringe, the world
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
know that, if you absorb the lessons from his experience, you'll avoid making similar mistakes as you build your company.
The company underestimated how hard it is to get customers
had no idea. You can never lose sight of, "Okay, what's our company supposed Somehow, as Luke Burgis raced to build his business, he ended up selling fitness bars, cereal, pet supplements and "sexual enhancement" products. At the same time, he found himself running an online message board and a YouTube-like video site.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly that is an “in-stream advertising” company currently focused on monetizing Twitter. Traditional media companies published their stories on the web. 8221; Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation
This has prompted many people to question whether advertising “in stream” and on Twitter is a good thing or a bad thing.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
What would you do if you built a tremendously successful internet company and sold it?
interviewed Ryan Scott to find out what he did after he sold Netcreations, the email list management company that he co-founded. (Curious think there are two kinds of entrepreneurs: The “wannabes,” who try to build companies so they never have to work again. I Curious about how Netcreations was built?
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Jeff Fluhr and his friend from school got together and created a company called StubHub which they built up and sold to eBay. But, you know, I think it wasn't until after my first real company StubHub that people, I think, thought of me in that light.
So I contacted the owner of the company and proposed to him that I be a distribution outlet for their product in retail channels outside of the Massachusetts area and began to help that company get In 2000, people had all kinds of assumptions about buying and selling tickets to events. They assumed it was illegal or
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
This technology is still in its early days, but I asked Dennis to talk about how the idea evolved and why it's finally starting to catch on.
The original idea for Dodgeball, foursquare's predecessor, was to create a smarter city guide similar to Yelp.
- Dennis says going to NYU's ITP program helped sharpen his startup's ideas. If you like this interview, you can submit it to my favorite news site . --Andrew Andrew
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
The problem with this approach is that a large majority of the investors you pitch are simply not appropriate for what you are doing or where you are as a company. Entrepreneurs spend a lot of time researching their market and customers. But, when it comes to raising money, they tend to approach anyone with a heartbeat! So, any time you spend
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