And, says one business founder, business angels can help negotiate better terms with the venture capitalists when the day comes to scale up even further.
About 30% of the time, a business founder has to make only a few tactical improvements to a well conceived business plan that is directionally accurate.
Once Esmerian took over Fred Leighton in April 2006, the business started to founder, and by September 2007 he was defaulting on loan payments.
Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and founder of the consulting firm Innosight.
Buying a multi-million dollar business jet is not an impulse purchase but Steve Varsano, founder of the Jet Business, reckons his new showroom might catch some passing trade.
The idea for a competition-based business first came to founder and CEO Anil Rathi, when he was still a student.
Give it away: Sometimes the family business dies with the founder.
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He was then an entrepreneur, a founder of Business Signatures and founding chief technology officer of Webvan Group, both of which were sold.
"If you want balance--and not everybody does--you have to force yourself to edit yourself personally and professionally, " says Jody Miller, founder of Business Talent Group, a supplier of high-end business talent for projects, consulting and interim roles.
He is a founder of Business for Affordable Medicine, an unlikely coalition of ten states, three labor unions and ten companies (such as General Motors, Wal-Mart and Motorola) now lobbying for Congress to outlaw some of the tactics used to stretch out drug patents.
Every business is developed because its founder saw a need for a product or service.
During the last day of the conference, he told me he was pleased that his father, the founder of the business, would be there and was receiving an award.
"We are delighted to bring the unique advantages of our technology platform to the world of athletics with Reebok, " said Ben Schlatka, Vice President of Business Development and Co-Founder of MC10.
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One of the leading figures in the UK's fight against doping is Michele Verroken, former director of ethics and anti-doping at UK Sport, and founder of sports business consultancy Sporting Integrity.
Just outside the city centre, the co-founder of a business start up, Hivejobs, says that in his experience, traditional family employers are often reluctant to make room for highly qualified young knowledge workers.
Berger is the co-founder of the media and social media training firm Everything is on the Record, Founder of Sports Business Radio and an Adjunct Professor at Portland State University, where he teaches a Sports Business Strategies course.
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One big obstacle in winning more of that business was Google co-founder Mr. Page, who objected to letting Google's advertising customers work with companies that installed "cookies" on people's computers for purposes of serving ads and tracking their performance.
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Last year, David Teten, a partner at at ff Venture Capital and founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, delivered a presentation to HBS alumni about the many ways that operating executives can work with venture capital and private equity firms.
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He was co-founder and CEO of business intelligence software supplier, and was CEO of Atrica, a Carrier Ethernet company that Nokia-Siemens acquired.
As with other chaebol, descendants of the founder still control the business.
"It's the best of times, it's the worst of times, " grumbled Shafter's business partner, Xybotyx co-founder Dan McShan, surveying the madness surrounding him.
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"This latest move shows he is price insensitive and wants to take control of the business, " the co-founder of Seven Investment Management told BBC Sport.
The Microsoft co-founder was at Harvard Business School last week to treat an audience of students and alumni to his thoughts on the current economic and banking crisis.
Ivan Kivelidi, a banker and founder of the Russian Business Roundtable, was murdered last year by poison (an obscure nerve toxin) applied to the rim of his coffee cup.
At Harvard Business School, she was the Founder and Anchor of HBS TV, Video Reporter for MBA PodTV on MBAPodcater.com, and on the Board of Directors of Harbus, HBS's student-run newspaper.
First, before you even begin a Facebook presence for your business, you need three things, says Ramon Ray, founder of SmallBizTechnology.com and author of The Facebook Guide to Small Business Marketing.
As a startup founder who handled the public relations in-house for my own business as well as someone who plays the outsourced function to other founder teams, I can identify with each perspective.
Some states have laws that prevent a co-founder from being able to kick a partner out of the business without buying that person out, whether or not the co-founder initiating the breakup believes the partner deserves to be compensated.
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It will definitely be interesting to follow as Becker and Co-founder Martin May develop the business.
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