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With Greathouse Comes Great Responsibility

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These courses all proved to be serious influences on turning the dream of starting their own company into a reality. The biggest motivator for starting brightblu was John Greathouse’s Entrepreneurship class. Fall quarter of Sr. Along with taking Sr.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. In the Early Days. Reviewing financial & operational performance.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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The world’s largest skateboard company, Skate One produces many of industry’s best-selling brands, including Powell•Peralta Skateboards , BONES Wheels and Mini•Logo Skateboards. George spent the first ten years of his career, gaining experience in the aerospace industry, before founding his skateboard company in 1976 at the age of 33.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

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Some channels will be expensive but highly scalable, such as direct response radio, while others will be less expensive, but more difficult to scale, such as search and affiliates. In addition, you must consider your customers’ lifetime value by channel , as there can be a great deal of variance between various clusters of customers.

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Roping in the Legal Eagles

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Such attorneys can also add tremendous value in your negotiations with Big Dumb Companies (BDCs), as they can ensure that you focus on the deal points that are of most significance to a small entity. It is surprising how often entrepreneurs forget this simple fact. In Search of an Oxymoron – The Ideal Lawyer.

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Are You an Entrepreneur?

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“You are forty, out of a job, a newlywed, your wife is expecting a baby, you don’t own your own home, you have no specialized qualifications, the only company you ever launched went bankrupt and you have just been sentenced to one year in jail.”. Hint: He was an entrepreneur. The same is true of entrepreneurs.

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Forget Cash: What Will You Really Make At Your Startup?

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For this reason, I encourage my young entrepreneurs to fully understand what they will "make" at their venture, beyond monetary riches. In the powerful poetry performance embedded below, he describes a dinner party during his teaching days in which a smug lawyer asked him, "Come on, be honest, what do you make?" Passionate Problems.

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