Entrepreneurs believe that they can recreate their successes again and again, start-up after start-up.
During his four decades in the start-up world, Bob Dorf has founded seven start-ups, invested and coached more than 20 start-ups.
Who belongs to the control group of men-led high tech start-ups to which the study compares the outcomes of the 500 women-led start-ups?
There's a "Start-up Village" area, an "American Idol"-styled start-up competition called "Accelerator, " and lots of panels, parties and expo floor space devoted to them.
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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In April 2012, Obama signed the JOBS Act (Jump-start Our Business Start-ups), which will allow average Americans not just the wealthy to fund small businesses via crowdfunding.
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They recognized and discussed the new programs Start-up Chile and Start-up America, as well as to continue promoting collaboration between universities and through agreements exchanges and joint research programs.
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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.
Based on over 160 interviews with start-up CEOs and dozens of investors and start-up experts, my new book reveals the six vital decisions that make the difference between start-up success and oblivion.
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Now is the time to jump-start job creation, re-start lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down.
Experience has shown that those who use this Fuzzy Front End to put a plan in place, complete their pre-start preparation, and jump-start relationships and learning are far more likely to deliver better results faster than those who choose to rest and relax.
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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.
This is not in the article but was tweeted at me by Ashk4n and may provide further reason to read the piece: At a Start-up School talk last month, Palantir co-founder Stephen Cohen bragged about how his pattern-finding start-up makes grizzled government types turn into giddy teenagers ( 15:00 min mark).
Our experience has shown that those who use this fuzzy front end to put a plan in place, complete their pre-start preparation, and jump-start learning and relationships as much as possible while working towards a deal close, are far more likely to deliver better results faster than those who choose to rest and relax.
Before I start taking -- start with questions, I have a couple of things I want to bring up.
If those who create the resources give back to that start-up common, the location attracts more start-ups.
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The early mistakes that Jobs made, and his floundering with his own start-up NeXT, are important lessons for start-ups and fledgling tech companies today.
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Andy Rubin, the tech whizz who oversees the Android empire, reckons Google can be a start-up that is home to many other start-ups run by the entrepreneurially minded.
Hartz has seen how the PayPal mafia, by investing in a recent generation of start-ups, has upgraded the quality of start-up know-how in a way that is similar to Y Combinator.
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Bijan Sabet, our lead investor, is somebody who back when I was running my little consulting company, before Tumblr, we were a little software company called Davidville and I was working on a bunch of start-ups at the time, a couple start-ups that got funded both through Spark Capital and Bijan.
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E-commerce fever has also arrived and each week brings at least three announcements of start-ups, new ventures or the launch of funds designed to finance start-ups.
Conduct pre-start meetings and phone calls as possible to jump-start important relationships.
And after a decade in Austin, he moved to the heart of Silicon Valley Start-up Common (SVSC) where he finances start-ups that need less capital than those of the dot-com era.
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One start-up that has done extremely well in the Boston Start-up Common has some interesting views on the SVSC.
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It is they who need to start yielding - to start living and letting live.
When Start-2 was first negotiated, cutting each side's weapons from Start-1's 6, 500 to 3, 000-3, 500 looked like real progress.
They argue that if Congress passes a carried interest bill, start-up money will either diminish or venture firms will shift their investments from start-ups to later-stage companies in order to minimize risk.
In some states, it is easier to form a technology start-up than it is to start a hair-braiding business.
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