So, I left the security of my job and went to a start up company.
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Too much to be cute and quick as a start up needs to be.
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So, I chose a start up that was focusing its energy on being an innovative disruptor.
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Clearwire is a start up company that is always on the verge of running out of cash.
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How about a start up out of Italy that makes the lives of programmers easier AND has a manifesto?
Actually, it comes from the financing of new companies: and who is more likely to finance a start up?
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For usually with a start up you can find out and get in touch with the right person pretty quickly.
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They are always going to be attracted to the big names that helped take a start up like Google to the top.
There is less risk in investing in a start up company where you know the people than there is investing in the stock market.
Yet amongst all of this today in the news the tech story of the day is a start up getting 41 million in the silicon valley.
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If they are able to pull that sort of money out of a start up operation, imagine how well they will be doing in 5 more years!
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Beam, Inc. muscled into the Irish whiskey market last year with a 73 million euro acquisition of the celebrated independent Cooley Distillery, a start up on a shoe string some 20 years ago.
Zenros, a start up in Denmark has created a new solar powered energy management system for hotels they believe will save hotels at least 35% in HLP costs over current sensor based technology.
HipGeo, a start up funded by Ash Patel, Morado Ventures and former EVP Yahoo, has created an iPhone app that lets you record what you do where ever you go and share that with anyone you want.
For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
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Venture capital is one of those rare businesses where past results are indicative of future results, as success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
Success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and that success then generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
This piece, discussing the contrasting characteristics of a representative tech healthcare start-up and a biopharma start-up, and highlighting which each might learn from the other.
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Thanks to the technology boom, the opportunities to work for a start-up, or start one yourself, have multiplied.
And a rotten time to be a start-up with a cash-flow problem.
Infosys, a technology firm, leapt in a generation from a start-up to a global blue chip, owned by institutional shareholders and measured against that most Western of yardsticks, the stock price.
The number of influencers online is not a huge number and their support of a new project can be vital to a start-up launching a new app or to an existing company with a new product to promote.
Another time I found myself in a hole when I showed up at a Silicon Valley start-up wearing a suit and tie.
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Why would anyone with a mortgage and family leave a stable job at a big company to go work for a start-up that has a less than 1% chance of surviving for more than a few years?
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After studying a few exceptions to the pattern of disruption, Christensen concluded that the only way a big company could avoid being disrupted was to set up a small spinoff company that would function as a start-up, make the new low-end product, and be independent enough to ignore what counted as sensible for the mother ship.
So why is it backing Achievers, a start-up that sells companies a service that boosts employee engagement?
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As a smaller firm, Layered can customize and scale the resources it rents to every customer, Pozadzides says, whether it's a start-up search engine or a software-as-service sales and inventory company.
But if a start-up does not achieve the financial targets that it agrees on as a condition of getting that money, the start-up is shuttered and the founder must leave the country.
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