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If you’re lucky enough: Celebrate your exit!

Berkonomics

You no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Others are diluted by subsequent investors to the point where there was nothing for them to celebrate at all in a sale.

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Entrepreneurs: Take the time to celebrate your exit.

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] First there comes a sense of relief, knowing that you no longer need to worry over daily cash or threats to your net worth. Not many founders or entrepreneurs do experience the success of a favorable sale of the business they dreamed would make them rich. Many fail multiple times.

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Entrepreneurs Need Experience More Than An MBA

Startup Professionals Musings

In some reputable surveys , as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so a specific education level is at least irrelevant. During his ten-year tenure, Apple''s sales increased from $800 million to $8 billion. John Scully, former CEO of Apple.

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How Great Entrepreneurs Spell Continuous Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

But these still need coaching on the unknowns, and ongoing education to keep up with the industry and the technology. They benchmark their ideas against competition, use metrics to track acceptance, sales growth, and return on investment. Net result and reward. Idea management. Innovation is not a one-time thing.

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How PointPredictive Is Using Machine Learning To Uncover Fraud, With Tim Grace

socalTECH

What we typically see when we implement or test our scores against applications they have previously funded and taken a loss on, is that we could have reduced net chargeoffs from 40 to 60 percent. For larger lenders, that might represent $40M to $50M in carveout of losses that they can reduce. That's one of the bigger reasons.

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Don’t Delay Your First Startup to Get an MBA Degree

Startup Professionals Musings

In some reputable surveys , as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so a specific education level is at least irrelevant. During his ten-year tenure, Apple's sales increased from $800 million to $8 billion. John Scully, former CEO of Apple.

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Skip the MBA if Entrepreneur is Your Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

In some recent surveys, as many as two-thirds of entrepreneurs felt that their entrepreneurial spirit was more ingrained than learned, so a specific education level is at least irrelevant. During his ten-year tenure, Apple's sales increased from $800 million to $8 billion. These probably feel that their MBA was worthwhile.