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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

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Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc. Unfortunately, the 2012 QS TopMBA.com Applicant Survey notes that, on average, MBAs expect to earn $153,000 upon graduation.

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money and equity for qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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Is Crowd-Funding the Answer When Investors Decline?

Startup Professionals Musings

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money for equity in qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

Tech Zulu Event

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. We asked if he was willing to take a pay cut for more equity.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

Tech Zulu Event

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). ” The large social media screen is Enplug, five iterations later. We asked if he was willing to take a pay cut for more equity.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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Darren Clark: It was officially May 9 of 2012, when David and I and others within YP and AT&T decided that given where we were with AT&T, their core focus on wireless, we should figure out how to take the business out of AT&T, so that we would not be constrained on our investments, and we could go after markets in a more strategic way.