TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Practice Ignition was founded in 2013 by accounting entrepreneur Guy Pearson and product designer Dane Thomas, who grew frustrated by antiquated manual processes and late payments from clients. Pearson said its platform was primarily a tool for accountants and bookkeepers, who are still a big part of its customer base.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Since the ATC program’s inception in 2013, 2,900 investments totaling $872 million have been approved to support 141 New Jersey companies. The two highlight New Jersey entrepreneurs with a proven record of successful business growth in the state. The NJEDA approved 207 investor applications in 2023, for a total of more than $8.2

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Knowing everything I’ve gained, I think that the main enemies of any business are: A wrong strategy: Sometimes, entrepreneurs pay too much attention to competitors’ strategies and try to create “something different” instead of focusing on their own vision. At other times, they just copy someone else’s strategy and try to implement it.

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EntreWorks Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Many such efforts also revolve around the development of kitchen incubators or commercial kitchens, where entrepreneurs can produce food products at scale, and learn the ins and outs of business development. This is the third such study, with previous releases in 2013 and 2016. An excellent new compendium, U.S.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

And still, only about 3% of venture capital goes to female founders—that number is even lower for BIPOC female entrepreneurs with an average funding rate of less than 1%. Lori’s advice to women entrepreneurs seeking funding? In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). So we went for it.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

DECEMBER 12, 2021

After graduating from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kene was working in healthcare consulting when he started his first company — an apparel business. It was a 2013 New Year’s Eve party in Atlanta. We are in the first cohort of ACT Tulsa with entrepreneurs who are working hard to build businesses in several fields.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 24, 2018

Dave is a co-founder and partner at Fathom , a strategy and creative consultancy based in Connecticut. An EO member since 2013, Dave is also a former national champion and Olympic Trials finalist swimmer who continues to train and compete at a world-ranked level to sustain his mental and physical endurance. Written by David Louden.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

The GitHub Student Developer Pack offers more than $200k in developer tools/training for student entrepreneurs or any students. LawCloud offers free legal documents through the Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization. The Emerging Entrepreneur Scholarship Grant is “to help entrepreneurial students who have innovative business ideas.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In 2013, when I started the company, I wanted to focus on a niche instead of being all things to all people. Having expertise in VA loans allows our loan officers to be advisors and consultants rather than salespeople just selling a mortgage. What would you share with other entrepreneurs contemplating bringing on a second-in-command?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The funding is being led by a strategic investor, Accenture Ventures — the investment arm of the systems integrator and consultancy behemoth — with Alexander Capital Ventures, Saatchi Invest, Ronald Lauder and other unnamed investors also participating. Or, it was simply not the right time for that technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. By now everybody has a big stake in your success and would like to feel consulted on the major decisions you’re making with their money. I know there are bad investors who do bad things.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

In contrast, entrepreneurs in most other fields risk a more significant portion of their own capital in their new venture , better aligning incentives. We wrote the first version of this research with Brent Beardsley , formerly a Partner with Boston Consulting Group. Contributors. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. And stop effing around trying to create a product company.&#.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Meaning I’m looking to be an entrepreneur, I got fired and I want to have a full time business like some of our friends, the Pats and whoever it may be of the world are. Shane Sams: What happened was, man, I had no training as an entrepreneur. In July we do our back to school sale, big launch, we make $15,000 in July of 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2013

Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. You need to consult your lawyer and decide for yourself. But in 2013 it can also simply be, “Company X raises $2.2 ” Why?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 13, 2023

At that point in my life, I was living in a hotel room four to five days a week as an e-learning consultant. Many entrepreneurs like to say they don’t pay attention to competition. Entering the e-learning market when we did (2013) was nothing short of serendipitous. More selfishly, it was about creating a “lifestyle business”.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I talked about creating a sale-ready business on a handful of podcasts , shared my story and booked one-off consulting calls with founders ready for a new challenge. I co-wrote a series of children’s storybooks in 2013 and a book on raising entrepreneurial kids in 2018 to give entrepreneurial role models to people without any.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 5, 2018

While there is no how-to guide for navigating the successes and failures you’ll face as an entrepreneur, there is plenty of brilliant advice and insights to be gained from individuals who have survived their own setbacks and gone on to thrive. The post How 5 Expert Entrepreneurs View Success and Failure appeared first on THE BLOG.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

It’s that time of year, where I — as a committee of one judge, but now in consultation with my Haystack colleagues Ian and Aashay — select one startup in the tech ecosystem that “broke out” and has the makings of an even larger outcome should things continue to go right. There are many reasons for this.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

I’m concerned that we’ll wind up with something akin to another de Blasio administration—because a progressive Mayor who cared about inequity was what we were supposed to get in 2013. At this point in the 2013 race, de Blasio was a distant third being Weiner and Quinn. We’re trying to get our voices heard.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. Angel and venture capital investments are made into women entrepreneur-led companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

According to Briter Bridges , another publication that tracks VC investments in Africa, only 3% of the total funding raised by startups in Africa since 2013 has gone to all-women co-founded teams. I think more female investors definitely means more female entrepreneurs, which is a great thing. Today, only 2.8%

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