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Entrepreneurs Love Celebrity Investors While VCs (Usually) Hate Them

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A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Entrepreneurs typically embrace celebrity investments, while most sophisticated investors prefer to avoid famous entertainment or sports personalities on the cap table. What’s the cause of this incongruence? Share and Enjoy.

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United Dwelling is one startup building something to solve California’s housing crisis

TechCrunch LA

The United Dwelling houses are equipped with the latest appliances and their insulation and electrical ranges, washers, and dryers mean that the apartments have net zero energy consumption and a net zero carbon footprint, according to Dietz. When you can match that latent supply with latent demand.

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Is Venture Capital A Path To Riches?

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Who makes more money, entrepreneurs or venture capitalists? If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Jason’s comments caused me to compare my career as an entrepreneur and a VC with Rincon Venture Partners.

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7 Failures of Corporate Executives as Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

I agree with the seven survival challenges from Michael Fertik, in an old Harvard Business Review article , for executives making the transition: Empire-building skills are counter-productive. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation.

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If Your Passion Is Saving The Environment, Start Here

Startup Professionals Musings

Al Gore, by just talking about it, still seems to be leading the way in monetization, having amassed an estimated net worth reported recently as around $300 million. The ideas are endless, but we need more smart entrepreneurs to implement them. Choose Energy, and others highlighted in this recent Investopedia article.

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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? Every Successful Entrepreneur Should Expect The “Million Dollar Question”

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Entrepreneurs who experience promising initial success also play a similar game. free weekly Infochachkie articles! Nearly every successful entrepreneur is offered a relatively modest amount of money for their adVenture during its early days. The payout was also unique. Million Dollar Offer.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

I even prefer to fund entrepreneurs who have experience some level of set-backs in their careers or startups because I think it brings a humility to decision-making that I find healthy. You also ran the risk that if you hired employees quickly and then demand wasn’t as strong as expected it was incredibility hard to fire people.

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