Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

This is part of my series on what makes an entrepreneur successful. I originally posted it on VentureHacks , one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs. I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Entrepreneurs play to win and they take losing seriously.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 18, 2023

Founded by Ashok Babu Kunjukannan, Harishankkar Subramanyam, and Maharajan Veerabahu in 2003, e-con Systems partners with key sensor makers like Sony, Onsemi and Omnivision, and lens makers like Commonlands and Corning, and ISP partners like NVIDIA and Socionext. For more information on e-con Systems, please visit their website at www.e-consystems.com.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

LMS365: Tracking and reporting Image Credits : LMS365 The story so far LMS365’s history can be traced back to 2003, when dentist Bjarne Mortensen founded a company called Elearningforce that was focused squarely on on-premise deployments of Microsoft Sharepoint.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

From 13–19 November 2017, we’ll share exclusive content designed to inspire and inform every entrepreneur—whether you’re in start-up mode or you’re a battle-scarred founder. Fear of failure can be paralyzing, but determined entrepreneurs conquer those fears and act anyway. Shelley joined the EO Brisbane chapter in 2003.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 17, 2021

By: Emily Angold, ACA Marketing Manager As an entrepreneur and seasoned angel investor, Bill Payne understands the critical importance of education to make well-informed decisions that determine the success or failure of a startup. In 2003 he was engaged in the formation and startup of the Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 15, 2017

With more than 12,000 members in 161 chapters and 50 countries, the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) continues to make a mark on the lives of those entrepreneurs who are transforming the world. In 2003, Moisés started a food voucher business, Vale Panama. Moisés Cohen was born in Colón City, Panama, in 1967.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

His recently published works include contributions to Renewable Energy World, BPlans.com, Entrepreneur Architect, and Tech.co. Berkeley in 2003 through the Interdisciplinary Studies Field program, Andrew writes and consults for numerous clients in the field of product design, software, and professional services. A graduate of U.C.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. I know what I don’t know.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As an Impact Hub entrepreneur, I see opportunities to really give momentum to what we have built – to bring our impact makers to scale, evolve our network into a strong ecosystem that leverages complementarity across our diverse contexts, and widen access to a range of community partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We Many of us had experiences of asking entrepreneurs, “Why are none of our candidates women?” Ours is: upfront.com/inclusion. Well, did you ask them to???”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

While building a company here between 1994 and 2003, I saw the Texas ecosystem firsthand and was excited about what it offered,” Smith told TechCrunch. “It We’re constantly meeting entrepreneurs that are at the frontier of things because they’re running into technology issues that others don’t have,” Engineer added.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. McGee Award and was the 2003 Journal Record Woman of the Year. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Oklahoma is very friendly to entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

They started their first joint venture, Blue Moon Pizza, in 2003. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) helps the world’s top entrepreneurs learn and grow through peer-to-peer learning, once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and connections to experts. In Their Industry. Discover EO today!

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 5, 2020

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) has been helping entrepreneurs achieve transformational growth since 1987. Beth Chernick was EO New York’s chapter manager from 2003 to 2020. Beth Chernick was EO New York’s chapter manager from 2003 to 2020. But this network of support and growth goes beyond members.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 21, 2019

Founded in 2003 and acquired by current management in 2011, THG Energy developed and markets the Energy Intelligence Suite platform that collects electricity, gas, water and waste data for more than 50,000 commercial accounts in all 50 states, providing best practice benchmarking and analytics. About THG Energy Solutions, LLC.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2012

It was June of 2003. The problem is that the program simply attracts only "the best"--a group of entrepreneurs who, at first, self select and believe they fit this criteria and then displays whatever patters Paul Graham and his team believe to be indicative of success. She had flower sleeves of spectacular color. They need attention.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 16, 2021

Entrepreneurs David Romani II, Kelly Farmer, and Sofia Soldevila always knew they wanted to bring great stories to life through animation. Part of the proceeds from ’Stached will support, griefHaven®, an organization that has provided grief support and education since 2003. Grief is seldom talked about. www.griefhaven.org.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

We need more entrepreneurs creating more business plans to produce more products that many, many people in large international markets will buy. She was the first of many strong and independent women in our family — my great-grandmother, grandmother, and ultimately my mother — who had and continue to have such an impact on me.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. (5:00 5:00 – 5:55).

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

Most businesses collapse due to financial factors such as the entrepreneur running out of cash , being incapable of paying workers, or not supplying enough goods to stay afloat. Many small-business entrepreneurs start their businesses with their own money, but you may also seek additional funding from investors or borrowed capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 11, 2018

2003 / Great service really does win business. But in 2006, I found my peer group by joining the Entrepreneurs Organization —and it was a game-changer. Ruby had grown and changed, and I was still leading like the scrappy entrepreneur that got us through the early years—namely by being in everyone’s business. I certainly did.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

At the same time, he added, “high interest rates may also increase the demand for venture capital when bank lending is less attractive to entrepreneurs.” Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If coming on as Overlooked’s first institutional investor.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

Martino outlined essentially two types of outcomes for this financial crisis from a historical perspective: “In 2001-2003, there was a depression in Silicon Valley. Being a consummate entrepreneur, Martino decided to turn it into a script and see if he could make a go of turning it into an actual movie. The risk paid off.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 28, 2021

16,500+ change driven entrepreneurs in 100+communities, 450 incubation, acceleration and scaling. scaling programs to impact-driven entrepreneurs last year alone. communities of 16,500 change-driven entrepreneurs in 60 countries across five continents, Impact Hub. programs, across 60 countries to India.” Impact Hub builds.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

I remember just a decade ago in 2003 when we all laughed at how dumb people in the 90′s were talking about the race to “capture as many eyeballs as possible” before your competition. I start to notice when bad behavior creeps into the system as a whole. I have seen much of that behavior over the past 2 years get worse.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs.

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Guy Kawasaki

MARCH 3, 2015

The implication is that entrepreneurs should start with megalomaniac goals in order to succeed. From Forbes FYI, Winter 2003) Steve Wozniak built the Apple I because he believed there was a better way to access computers than having to work for the government, a university, or a large company. Why doesn’t our company do this?

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others).

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . A Deal Executive (sometimes called an Executive in Residence or Acquisition Entrepreneur) looks for a company to invest in or build, and typically serve in as CEO.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Though he still sings and teaches music today, Ian’s true passion lies in helping entrepreneurs succeed. He co-founded Select Performers with his dad in 2003. He is the founder of the Confident Live® Marketing Academy, which coaches entrepreneurs and business owners on how to use videos to build impact, authority, and profits.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. There is no such thing as a uniform price.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Facebook, which did not exist in 2003, is now valued at nearly $100 billion. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people.

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Source Link

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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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

In my 15 years as a CEO in the technology industry, I have witnessed the rise of the smartphone and the evolution of the digital age from behind the scenes.

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GCUC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For us, it started in 2003 when we started Pacific Workplaces and coined the term ‘Workspace-as-a-Service’ in a blog and incorporated that key phrase in our vision of the workplace, which has not changed that much in 15 years. What advice would you give to someone thinking of becoming an entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

It’s two young guys who both dropped out of college to pursue their dream of becoming entrepreneurs. And as I wrote in this post, I think you need to be willing to take calculated risks to be a successful entrepreneur. One was at Yale and the other at Boston College. I don’t have a WakeMate yet but I plan to buy one soon.

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