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8 Entrepreneur Attributes Proven To Attract Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor in early-stage startups, I’ve long noticed my peers apparent bias toward the strength and character of the founding entrepreneurs, often overriding a strong solution to a painful problem with a big opportunity. Developed a higher level of mental complexity. In both cases, the beliefs tended to become realities.

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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Incorporating a business entity early through online services.

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7 Grants For Black-Owned Businesses to Apply For in 2024

Tech.Co

However, despite growing optimism, the path to success for Black entrepreneurs is still paved with systematic barriers in 2024. Power Forward Small Business Grant Black Founder Startup Grant Powershift Entrepreneurs Grant NAACP and Lelsie’s Certification Boost Grant U.S. 🌎 Or appear as if you're in another country?

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Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Respected More Than Loved

Both Sides of the Table

Of if your VP Sales isn’t complaining about marketing she’s trying to get the function reporting to her. They review competitors offerings and analyst reports. Your most talented developer quits because he thinks his boss is a fuckwit and he can’t work with her any more. More developers? What do you do?

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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program

TechCrunch LA

In an attempt to boost diversity and inclusion efforts and civic engagement between the growing technology industry in Los Angeles and the community that surrounds it, over 80 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs joined the city’s mayor, Eric Garcetti, and the non-profit Annenberg Foundation to announce PledgeLA.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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How Bill Gates Was A Role Model For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

At that time I couldn’t imagine a startup succeeding that was first called Traf-O-Data to process raw traffic data into reports, later changed to Microsoft to sell Basic Interpreters to microcomputer manufacturers. In my opinion, Bill Gates would have failed without his partners Steve Ballmer, and Paul Allen. That’s real viral marketing.

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