Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Most entrepreneurs wait too long to start thinking about their exit. I recently met with two bright entrepreneurs who are building a company in an exciting niche market riding on a long term trend. These entrepreneurs were too young to attract the amount of capital they’d need to compete in this new environment. By Basil Peters.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Female entrepreneurs can apply anytime by telling their story, however, details about your company, industry, and market will help your case seem more competitive. You can unsubscribe at any time. Fortunately, the program doesn't require a lengthy application.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. This is the easiest one for most entrepreneurs. But most good entrepreneurs do this naturally.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

One of the hardest things about the fund-raising process for entrepreneurs is that you’re trying to raise money from people who have “asymmetric information.” As an entrepreneur it can feel as intimidating as going to buy a car where the dealer knows the price of every make & model of a car and you’re guessing at how much to pay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2012

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. Don’t wait for journalists to find you; they all publish their email addresses, and they’re looking for something interesting to write. Because of human nature, controversy gets people’s attention much more quickly than total agreement. Give it to them.

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socalTECH

JULY 23, 2010

For StyleHive, in particular, we're adding a daily email newslette rprogram, and are reaching out to hundreds of thousands of email newsletter subscribers we have who have been underserved. Tags: entrepreneur startup social shopping thisnext edelman matt. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2011

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. Don’t wait for journalists to find you; they all publish their email addresses, and they’re looking for something interesting to write. Because of human nature, controversy gets people’s attention much more quickly than total agreement. Give it to them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2010

As an entrepreneur, it’s never too early to start selling yourself and your idea. Don’t wait for journalists to find you; they all publish their email addresses, and they’re looking for something interesting to write. Tags: entrepreneur startup business. People forget your early mistakes if they haven’t bought your product yet.

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Startup Writing Newsletter Blogging 90

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. And it’s true that I still take a whole lot of first meetings with entrepreneurs.

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InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 2, 2009

As Marketing Guru Guy Gabriel of Idea Engineering points out in Max Brand , viral marketing has made many an entrepreneur terminally ill. Some might be from banner ads and others may arise from an email campaign. . In many cases, editorial content in an email newsletter is an effective manner of acquiring customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It’s sharing features built into your web site content like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters. Do them all.

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Social Media Content Startup Web 93

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It’s sharing features built into your web site content, like social bookmarking, emailing, or auto posting and interactive features like comments and voting. Online advertising is the promotion of your site and content on other sites, such as pay-per-click contextual ads, banner ads, rich media ads, and ads in newsletters. Do them all.

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Startup Social Media Content Paid Search 96

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2010

As the standard gained popularity more people started “subscribing&# to output of their favorite content – either as an email newsletter or as an XML feed into their RSS Reader such as Google Reader. Feedburner, founded by now-Twitter-CEO Dick Costolo. It’s at the core of what Delicious was.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 WSJs Lauren Schuker Blum shows us around. More Mansion Videos.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Vator, Bambi was an award-winning columnist and correspondent at Dow Jones MarketWatch, where she had 400,000 subscribers to her newsletter. Richard Rosenblatt.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. Or “I’m a new entrepreneur, why would I offer advice on how to run a startup?&#. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

before which is second-time entrepreneurs. 1 2 3 next › last » February 2010 login or register to post comments Print Email Newsletters Browse current issue › Subscribe to Fast Company › Digg StumbleUpon Facebook Buzz Up! So, we have been very successful in the area of innovating business models.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2016

Too many entrepreneurs still believe that “if we build it, they will come.” Every entrepreneur needs a strategy, and some metrics to measure what’s working and how much it costs. Every entrepreneur needs to market a brand with something to say, something that stands out and ignites everything the brand does.

Marketing 58

Marketing Startup Social Media Newsletter 58

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Juno provided a free email service. Eventually, Juno provided free access to browse the internet in addition to sending email.

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