Entrepreneur (16)
- Getting the Startup Equation Right - BusinessWeek
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Deciding which Great Idea to pursue is just the first step, says Caterina Fake. The next essential is forming the team that can make it happen
Tags: entrepreneur, startup, article - view - prasanth - 02/24/2010 - 09:12 - - -
- Entrepreneur DNA
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I will be posting a series on what makes an entrepreneur. There will be 11 posts in this series. Click on the links below to read any of the posts.
Tags: business, entrepreneur, success, articles, list - view - prasanth - 01/14/2010 - 17:44 - - -
- Milestones to Startup Success
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When your startup accepts outside money (such as venture capital), you are obligated to focus on maximizing long-term shareholder value. For most startups this is directly based on your ability to grow (customers, revenue and eventually profit). Most entrepreneurs understand
Tags: business, entrepreneur, marketing, startup, strategy, article - view - prasanth - 01/06/2010 - 14:37 - - -
- The Essential Startup Reader: 10 Lessons in Entrepreneurship – GigaOM
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As a blogger, I spend most of my time writing. But it’s time spent reading that’s most satisfying. Here’s a short (and by no means a complete) list of 10 articles that encapsulate the art of the startup.
Tags: business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, startup, startups, article, list - view - prasanth - 01/05/2010 - 11:02 - - -
- A VC’s Advice On How To Pitch VCs
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The one thing I do know is how to give better advice on pitching VCs now that I’ve sat through hundreds of pitches and made 8 investments. I gave some advice in an earlier post—this one builds on it at a deeper level (three years later)
Tags: business, entrepreneur, pitch, startup, vc, article - view - prasanth - 12/13/2009 - 20:16 - - -
- Learn the five secrets of innovation - CNN.com
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Coming up with brilliant, game-changing ideas is what makes the likes of Apple's Steve Jobs so successful, and now researchers say they have identified the five secrets to being a great innovator
Tags: entrepreneur, innovation, startup, article - view - bharath - 11/29/2009 - 09:44 - - -
- Selling for Survival
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Forget the used-car-dealer image. The ability to show people that your product helps them succeed is a basic skill crucial to any venture
Tags: business, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, startup, article - view - bharath - 11/29/2009 - 09:41 - - -
- Influential Marketing Blog: 7 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Twitter's Success
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By any measure, the growth and popularity of Twitter has been phenomenal. To say that Twitter has hit mainstream isn't really the right metric to use. It's more powerful to note that for a large group of Twitter enthusiasts, to spend even a day without using it would be as bad (or perhaps even worse) than not having email.
Tags: entrepreneur, marketing, socialmedia, startup, twitter, article - view - bharath - 11/14/2009 - 11:33 - - -
- Joel Spolsky: Setting the Right Priorities
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In my last column, I told the story of the humble origins of my company, Fog Creek Software. My co-founder, Michael, and I envisioned the business as a high-end Web consulting shop, until the implosion of that industry forced us to change plans.
Tags: advice, business, entrepreneur, programming, startup, article - view - prasanth - 11/06/2009 - 18:58 - - -
- Redeye VC: Yogi Berra wisdom for startups
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My first company was called Infonautics. I co-founded it in 1991 when I was an undergraduate at Penn. This was back in the dark ages of online services -- when people used 1200 or 2400 baud modems. Our initial product (called Homework Helper) was one of the first consumer "search engines"
Tags: advice, entrepreneur, startup, strategy, blogpost, tips - view - prasanth - 10/03/2009 - 22:28 - - -
