Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Here are my thoughts on the right focus at a college or university: Take entrepreneurship courses, but major in a more specific discipline.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Business advisors need to be ready to help at every stage, and I see it beginning to happen. Utilize business content curators and coaches. The wealth of online education offerings is a great start, but is not enough.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is an a skilled public speaking coach. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I of course agreed to get involved. A great trade! If I missed you, tweet me.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our focus is on helping entrepreneurs build businesses that focus on social and environmental challenges. After 20+ years of building my own businesses from scratch, I finally figured out that I love helping entrepreneurs build their businesses! Help build many companies! We build and invest in startups with impact.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Business advisors need to be ready to help at every stage, and I see it beginning to happen. Utilize business content curators and coaches. The wealth of online education offerings is a great start, but is not enough.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I of course agreed to get involved. Of course not, but I wish I could.

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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. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year. So we went for it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Business advisors need to be ready to help at every stage, and I see it beginning to happen. Utilize business content curators and coaches. The wealth of online education offerings is a great start, but is not enough.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It helped balance the forces between people trying to create value and create jobs and create companies and people trying to make money from those initiatives. The Founder Institute was set up to help entrepreneurs around the world be more successful at launching companies that have a shot at changing the world. Instead) we focus on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. It’s one thing to invest in a later-stage (say a C round) to help with growth, it’s another to fund companies who are already valued in the billions.

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