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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

It was one of my favorite books as a child, although the moral, which impacted me, was not the obvious one (i.e., What intrigued me was the fact that the pigs left the comfort of their home and entered the “wide world” to “seek their fortunes.”. followed by, “What’s a fortune?” Lighting The Match.

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Do Not Seek Your Fortune, Create It: How The Three Little Pigs, Illiterate Miners and Pink Floyd Guided One Entrepreneur’s Journey

InfoChachkie

It was one of my favorite books as a child, although the moral, which impacted me, was not the obvious one (i.e., What intrigued me was the fact that the pigs left the comfort of their home and entered the “wide world” to “seek their fortunes.”. followed by, “What’s a fortune?” Lighting The Match.

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On Funding?—?Shots on Goal

Both Sides of the Table

Consider: When GOAT started it was a restaurant reservation booking app called GrubWithUs … it’s now worth $3.7 We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million.

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals

InfoChachkie

Their primary intended reader is a “first-time entrepreneur”, but clearly other stakeholders within the startup universe can also benefit from the book’s hands-on advice. Examples – The book is filled with text excerpted from actual funding documents, rather than the generic templates usually found in academic textbooks.

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Tech.Co Has Been Acquired by Global Digital Media Business

Tech.Co

Jen Consalvo and I expanded the national footprint of events, hosted conferences and festivals, created monthly leadership summits, hosted an interactive educational speaker series, wrote a book, and launched a daily news and resource platform with a new brand – Tech.Co. Needless to say, very little of it was easy.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

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8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? from the Wharton School.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

8 ) Although you wrote an excellent business book ( The Map Of Innovation ) that is consistently well received by my UCSB entrepreneurial students, I know you are not a huge fan of most business books. With that said, what books, blogs or other resources do you recommend for emerging entrepreneurs? from the Wharton School.