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

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. Andrew: I remember one of the things we talked about, you spoke at a live Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew

See how Ben subtly stands out at events. Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie If you like this interview, vote for it on news.ycombinator.com --Andrew Ben Huh came to Mixergy to talk about how he raised money to buy a blog about LOL cats, called "I Can Has Cheezburger," and how he turned it into a growing publishing company that own over 20 sites, including Fail Blog and This is Photo Bomb. His network has over

Today I've got with me one of the pioneers, one of the leaders, one of the early Internet, excuse me, software entrepreneurs, before the Internet was even out there, I've got Heidi Roizen with me and she and I are going to talk about how she built an early company called T/Maker, how she built one of the early spreadsheet software, and we're going to talk about her career going through Apple and how she built relationships for Apple back in their tougher times and how she went on to become a venture capitalist. My dad was an entrepreneur in the video field. The Harvard Business School Case Study on Heidi Roizen talks about the dinner parties she hosts for tech leaders like her personal friend, Bill Gates, and how people skills helped her build one of the most admired careers in Silicon Valley.

So that’s just a tremendous milestone and just an event that changed my life, changed the scene and the open source ecommerce market. Tags: Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship Intervie Roy Rubin was a student trying to make extra money on the side when he founded Varien, the company that went on to launch Magento, an ecommerce platform that enables billions of dollars in online sales. He came to Mixergy to talk about why Varien grew (it had a lot to do with focus) and how the company launched Magento (his developers pushed him to do it).

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This is part of my new series on what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. wanted to also post the series here to have it as a resource on my blog for future entrepreneurs who stop by.  So what skills does it take to be a successful entrepreneur?  If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I

Another busy week in Los Angeles with a few good events to check out. Brought to you by the team who produces Startonomics and Dealmaker LA, this hands-on “workshop-style” event will allow entrepreneurs to drill down on the key issues we face when laying the foundation to build and fund their company. New Noise brings together music industry professionals, music technology professionals, entrepreneurs, artists, artist managers, agents, producers, lawyers, publishers, and fans. Tuesday October 6th Dealmaker – The Workshop

This is part of my new series on  what makes an entrepreneur successful .  I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur :  Tenacity .  I When looking for great entrepreneurs for me it’s not If you haven’t spent time over there you should. I