2010 Competition Entrepreneur Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” We’re all socially connected (so great businesses spread faster). Why is this?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2010
Let me assume for this discussion it’s a garden variety 2010 IT or Internet business (as opposed to something requiring capital equipment or a life sciences project). I’ve seen too many entrepreneurs try to do things on the cheap. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice Startup Advice.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
These days that’s not the case and it’s a great outcome for entrepreneurs and for innovation. A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. A: Only because it’s a nicer branding for entrepreneurs. I totally agree and have been arguing this to entrepreneurs for years.
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 8, 2010
This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.
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JANUARY 12, 2010
I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. This product seems to be dead-ended the way that Microsoft products become when they have no competition.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 31, 2012
According to a recent study done by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were 565,000 new businesses created per month in 2010 in the US alone, which is a 15-year high. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? People are more distracted than ever, and competition has never been greater.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 15, 2016
Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012. You get in a line with executives on one side and EITs (entrepreneurs in training) on the other.
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