I have an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. It was some of the best experiences of my life. I met fabulous friends, learned from incredible professors, and developed in many important my ways. My entrepreneurship professor, Gregg Fairbrothers, is one of my all-time favorite teachers and he taught me a lot about doing start-ups right. The professors and administrators at Tuck never
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You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur
Posted by admin 46 days ago (http://steveblank.com)
Who is an entrepreneur really? It turns out that there are four distinct types of entrepreneurial organizations; small businesses, scalable startups, large companies and social entrepreneurs. They all engage in entrepreneurship. Yet entrepreneurs in one class think that the others aren’t the “real” entrepreneurs. This post looks at the differences and similarities and explains why there’s such co
Like a Klingon starship de-cloaking in the middle of Europe, Lars Hinrichs the founder of LinkedIn competitor XING who exited for €48.3 million last year is putting his efforts onto a new startup investment vehicle dubbed HackFwd. But although the web site for the new venture is packed with advisors and mentors, HackFwd will take 27% of a company it invests in – that’s a sizeable chunk.
Startup Life, Visualized (Infographic)
Posted by admin 50 days ago (http://techcrunch.com)
Always delighted to see savvy entrepreneurs and investors in Europe launch initiatives that can help young tech startups, wherever they're located, go from idea to product without going bankrupt and disillusioned even before making it to the prototype phase. Hence, I am completely in love with what XING founder Lars Hinrichs is doing with HackFwd, a new-style, product-oriented startup investment
Yes. Europe Does Produce Big Tech Companies
Posted by admin 51 days ago (http://blog.awesomezombie.com)
After spinning through a few in my head I came to the same conclusion as he did following a few responses. That most of them are b2b. There are the big enterprisey giants like SAP and Sage, and then there are the industry specialized ones. There's no shortage of big chip manufacturers (STMicroelectronics, ARM, CSR, Wolfson Microelectronics)...
Three Steps to Getting Your Startup Funded
Posted by admin 51 days ago (http://roachpost.com)
Getting funded is tough. Whether it’s angel investment or venture capital you’re after, your chances of actually finding investors are slim. The following are three ideas for helping you secure the capital that your startup needs.
Paths to $5M for a startup founder
Posted by admin 52 days ago (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com)
Most entrepreneurs don't do it for the financial reward alone, but it's generally a primary goal in the life cycle. And yet I think many entrepreneurs, especially first-timers, don't pay close enough attention to the impact various decisions have on their personal financial outcomes.
Toronto’s transformation to Silicon Valley North
Posted by admin 53 days ago (http://www.theglobeandmail.com)
The city that missed the Internet boom is making up for lost time. For a group that’s just seen a buyout in its midst – a buyout that might have been worth as much as $30-million – the entrepreneurs at Extreme Venture Partners seem impossibly young. So young, it’s hard to tell who’s an entrepreneur and who’s a university co-op student. “Hey, everybody!” shouts Farhan Thawar, vice-president of eng