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6 Ways To Make You An Entrepreneur Before The Product

Startup Professionals Musings

Many of the entrepreneurs I advise or invest with spend considerable time on the Internet, keeping up with technology, customers, and competitors, but very few feel the need for an early personal presence. Invest your time in networking online, as well as offline. Every future entrepreneur should start by networking.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). In that article I linked to I outline the difference between gross margin & net margin. ” I highly recommend reading it. Valuation.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. The Partnership on AI , formally unveiled Wednesday, includes Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Google and its 2014 acquisition DeepMind.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

InfoChachkie

free weekly Infochachkie articles! If you are charged for every nanosecond you spend with your lawyer, consider finding one who is willing to “invest” more aggressively in your success. Your lawyer is a trusted advisor, but in the end, you run your business, your lawyer does not. Substance Over Form. Do not do it.

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Why I F **g Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed

Both Sides of the Table

On average they have taken 9-11 years to reach this status and most of our investments have never gotten there. Do you know how many people I meet these days who are “packaging up money in SPVs (special purpose vehicles),” or raising syndicates or doing secondaries or advising high-net-worth individuals how to get into unicorns?