InfoChachkie
JANUARY 27, 2014
Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. Celebrity investors aside, I am a fan of high net worth individuals who are willing to allocate some of their risk capital to foster a startup''s success.
InfoChachkie
JANUARY 18, 2012
As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. free weekly Infochachkie articles! The youngest was 15.
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InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2009
Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is so highly valued in the Western World that some people try to convince themselves that they are an entrepreneur, when in fact they would be better off at a Big Dumb Company (“BDC”). Entrepreneur Does Not Equal Inventor.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 13, 2010
The net result of my posts plus the comments forms a tighter view of my evolving belief system. If I had link bait with stupid ideas then entrepreneurs wouldn’t want to work with me. But the reality is that most “conventional wisdom&# is a bit like Hollywood films. Life is complex.
socalTECH
AUGUST 10, 2015
Our interview this morning is with serial entrepreneur Tony Farwell , the Executive Chairman and co-founder of GovX (www.govx.com), a San Diego-based online marketplace aimed at current members of the military, veterans, and government employees, including first responders, police, and others. We are close to 2 million members.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
Some of the all-time greatest business deals involve entrepreneurs who viewed the scope of their negotiations in terms of decades, rather than years. Too often, entrepreneurs negotiate deals which consider a relatively short-term time horizon. However, shrewd entrepreneurs look beyond a deal’s near-term impact.
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
When you began your teaching career, did you plan on eventually being an entrepreneur? What guidance can you give to anyone in a financially safe career who longs for the exciting life of an entrepreneur? But throughout the transition I had my safety net. We always focused on making the story bigger.”.
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