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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

You know this isn’t likely to lead anywhere and frankly you didn’t quit your job to pursue your life dream of being an entrepreneur to sell 12 months later in an acquihire. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. Startup Advice' They see the dollar signs and the victory.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Today marks the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week, an annual initiative that shines a light not only on the value entrepreneurs bring to our communities and global economy, but also the importance of building infrastructures that make it easier for them to start and scale their businesses. Entrepreneurs new “home” in Central Florida.

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APRIL 4, 2011

I ran my first marathon in London this way in 2003 raising $3,000 for Parkinson’s disease (and finishing in under 4 hours – my publicly stated goal). And given your stage of development you sure better at least know what your goal is. No metrics = high level, more generalized advice. That’s not acceptable. Is it 4/1,000?

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AUGUST 15, 2009

I believe that it is part of the DNA of an entrepreneur – being so competitive that you’re practically sick when you lose. Entrepreneurs are neurotic about it. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. I hate losing.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. You develop a cynicism that the future will be better. I think we started working together in 2003 when he was new in the UK from South Africa. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

12:00 It seems like there’s a shift in the VC world to more ex-entrepreneurs. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica? 57:45 Nate: The differences between Gaikai and OnLive’s development. 8:00 Is your model still a hands on approach?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly. A standard entrepreneur retort I heard back then (2008-09) was “I don’t know what my company is worth now.

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APRIL 27, 2010

If you want that advice please click on the link. Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. The things you learn in tough environments. million, then $5.9m, $7.7m

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MAY 20, 2021

Ramon Ray, entrepreneur and founder of SmartHustle.com, had a discussion with Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox all about this and more. So, I sort of grew up as a product manager at Google in the early days of the company working on Google AdWords, when we just launched AdWords, I think back in 2003. Developer / Programmer 101.

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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