Entrepreneur

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I say no to entrepreneurs a lot -- easily 200 or 300 times a year. There are a number of reasons I give: bad timing -- it’s too late in the investment cycle or too early for the startup to get funding -- or the business model is a poor fit for our st

Inc.

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WHEN ELIZABETH SOPHER and Caroline Portis decided to commit full time to their Denver-based bedding business, QuickZip, they knew pay cuts were in order. As established professionals in their 50s—Sopher was an environmental scientist and Portis was a

Entrepreneur

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The effort required to launch a new venture can seem daunting. Of course, specifics vary based on the type of business you're establishing; manufacturers face unique challenges, as do retailers and consulting firms. But once you have your concept and

Inc.

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DAVID S. ROSE, ENTREPRENEUR, INVESTOR, mentor, and author of The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business, has been present at the birth of businesses for decades. He knows what makes them grow—or not. Rose shares the simple, p

Harper's Bazaar India

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“My journey to becoming an entrepreneur found its genesis in a personal struggle, when my one-year-old daughter developed a skin reaction to the chemicals in her moisturiser. That was when I realised that there was a dearth of natural, safe, and effe

The Atlantic

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A lack of personal savings, competition from abroad, and the threat of another economic downturn make it harder for Millennials to thrive as entrepreneurs.

Fast Company

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Silicon Valley billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya, dressed in slim-fit ripped jeans and a caramel-smooth leather jacket, drops four pills out of a small ziplock bag: aspirin, cod liver oil, Lipitor, and vitamin D. The pills are his daily wellness cockt

Inc.

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I’m a big fan of children’s literature. In terms of sage advice for entrepreneurs, it’s hard to top Aesop’s fable about the dog and his bone. And Dr. Seuss’s Yertle the Turtle can’t be beat for conveying an invaluable lesson about how to treat the ot

Entrepreneur

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Five years ago, I sold my startup and started working in venture capital. And while that sale made me very happy, it didn’t make me all that wealthy—especially not compared with the deals I see now, where big funding rounds and lucrative exits carry

Rotman Management

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FOR SEVERAL YEARS, ABRAHAM HEIFETS had worked on applying recent advancements in artificial intelligence to drug discovery. Developing a new medicine takes an average of 15 years, and Heifets had devised a way to shrink the process to a fraction of t

Entrepreneur

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The food revolution has a new champion. Venture capitalists are stepping in with billions of dollars focused on agriculture and food ventures that reduce waste and use of chemicals, conserve resources, accelerate distribution and—at least theoretical

Techfastly

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A venture capitalist (VC) is a private equity investor that provides funds or capital to startups and companies exhibiting high growth potential in exchange for an equity stake. It could be funding startup ventures or supporting small companies wishi

Fast Company

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Tyler Haney was fed up. Last November, she was trying to fill an executive role at her athleisure company, Outdoor Voices, and had brought in an external recruiting firm. Haney had been clear about what she was looking for, but the recruiters seemed

STAT

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A new San Francisco venture capital firm here is betting that overworked, unhealthy startup founders are bad for the bottom line.

Los Angeles Times

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In early 2017, Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son gave Adam Neumann the kind of advice no entrepreneur can afford to ignore. Son's investment firm, Softbank, was on the verge of pumping more than $4 billion into Neumann's office subleasing start-up,

NZBusiness and Management

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NZB: Looking back over your 18 years with The Icehouse, if you had to pick two standout personal moments, what would they be? ANDY: Starting at the beginning on both our key target markets. For the start-ups, day one was the 11th of June 2001 at th

Inc.

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Starting any fast-growing business is difficult. Starting one while female, as the flood of headlines about #MeToo and VC funding shortfalls illustrates, can seem nearly impossible. “I was told I was too female, too old, even too blond: ‘You do not

TechLife News

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A young venture capital firm based in Greenwich believes it has a big competitive advantage. Founded in 2016 and launched last year, 1843 Capital — led by Tracy Chadwell and Alison Andrews Reyes — specializes in technology startups, but it differenti

Inc.

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By 2017, Buffer co-founder and CEO Joel Gascoigne was facing a painful decision: His social media analytics firm was heading into the red, and he could either cut costs, by laying off employees at his San Francisco startup, or he could try to raise m

Literary Hub

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The coronavirus pandemic is dramatically disrupting not only our daily lives but society itself. This show features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the deeper economic, political, and technological consequenc

Entrepreneur

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Despite the lack of funding, black women are the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs today. Here's why.

Entrepreneur

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We found the nation's most livable, viable cities for entrepreneurs to be successful and enjoy life. Come take the tour.

Inc.

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With its pro-business climate, exceptional resources, and unmatched quality of life, Florida is proving to be an ideal location to start a business.

Inc.

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Inside the infrared cedar sauna at Epic Entrepreneur House in San Diego, aspiring startup moguls can strip down to their core assets, generate a little sweat equity, and, finally, focus. At Epic, you see, nearly all distractions (friction, in product

Inc.

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No. 50 Buffalo Few cities can take advantage of a catalyst like the Buffalo Billion, the development plan New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced in 2012 to invest $1 billion into the region. The program’s impact has been widely felt: Today, Buffalo

AppleMagazine

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A young venture capital firm based in Greenwich believes it has a big competitive advantage. Founded in 2016 and launched last year, 1843 Capital — led by Tracy Chadwell and Alison Andrews Reyes — specializes in technology startups, but it differenti

Inc.

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Corporate venture funding is on the rise. These founders explain how they made the choice to take corporate investment—or not

STAT

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The pivotal financial decisions that determine which biotech companies will survive and which will fail are determined largely by social capital — not by science.

Inc.

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As the nation’s sixth largest city puts entrepreneurship front and center, its startup scene is percolating.

Entrepreneur

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Q&A with Corey Ford, the managing partner of an accelerator that urges startups to rethink journalism.