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3 Keys to Navigating the Entrepreneurial Maze

Entrepreneurs' Organization

My mentor’s advice felt like a parental reprimand. Many successes (and even more failures) later, the advice still rings true. His advice for business leaders is simple and follows in the same vein: Follow your effort, not your passion. Mike started working at Vector Marketing in 2000 as a student at Boston College.

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How Do You Reference Check a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

So my first advice is not to rush in the fund raising process. Don’t take my advice, take Eric Clapton’s. My chips were down in late 2000 / early 2001. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Not so in venture capital. You’re tied at the hip to your VC.

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Can you be an adaptive business leader?

Berkonomics

Why would I spend so much time networking with other CEOs, discussing mutual problems and solutions? It was an Internet CEO roundtable in early 2000 (almost a year before the crash of the stock market) where it became obvious before the public was aware, that the bubble was just beginning to burst for such tech businesses.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. For new fund creation, you essentially have to already be tied into existing networks of capital. scratches bald head]. and now croudfunding sites.

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JOBS Act Title III and Crowdfunding: What We Know So Far

Onevest

Join the rest of the nation including equity crowdfunding platforms like 1000 Angels , the private investor network that connects startups with investors, where currently only accredited investors are allowed to invest. Onevest does not give investment, legal or tax advice. Photo credit: Getty Images. will increase from 3.5

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Venture Capital Q&A Session

Both Sides of the Table

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur. Tags: Start-up Advice. I eventually needed more money.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. I was baffled. It was 2007. They were envious. Let me explain.