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Advice from an entrepreneurship expert, with Professor Michael Goldberg

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

The YLAI Network hosted Michael Goldberg , a professor of entrepreneurship and an expert in international business development, for a Facebook chat in November for Global Entrepreneurship Week. What advice would you give to entrepreneurs and professionals looking to finance their business?

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Lessons from the Trenches: One Founder’s Candid Look at Bootstrapping

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Reflecting on my own journey with Equifund, I aim to shed light on the trials and triumphs of entrepreneurship, especially for those who, like me, choose not to rely on outside funding. This experience allowed me to identify a critical void in financing companies: building healthy capital stacks and navigating the public offering process.

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Leave Your White Guy Behind

This is going to be BIG.

The men were all slightly older finance types that were exactly the kind of guy you would think someone would choose to connect them to financing. I'm not your finance bro. Yes, straight white males are getting most of the funding, but they're also most of the pitches. Not a single investor turned her down.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. Most B-school pitches I see involve “Step 1, hire a tech guy to build it.”

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Should every startup get funded?

This is going to be BIG.

” Fred Wilson seconded that opinion , citing that “We need more entrepreneurship, not less.” ” I’m all for more entrepreneurship, but I think it’s a slippery slope to tie together funding an increased number of companies with a better innovation landscape or even a better economic.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

MyEO DX attracts EO members who are looking to transform or reinvent their business strategies or overall engagement with entrepreneurship. There’s a lengthy application and vetting process for EO members or Accelerators to qualify to pitch. The 20 or so people selected will participate in a pitch workshop breakout session during DX22.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. New York will feature five this summer alone--Techstars, DreamIt, Startl and the NYC Seed/EDC Media and Finance incubators. If you've got an idea good enough to get accepted to Sprout Box, the team there will actually build your app.