It was founded by Rudy DeFelice, a former corporate lawyer turned tech start-up entrepreneur.
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There was only one type of start-up and one type of entrepreneur in the old days, but today there are many types of start-up, according to Dorf.
If the start-up went bust, the entrepreneur often felt so ashamed that he left town rather than face the town's scorn.
In his forthcoming book Start-up Rising, veteran tech entrepreneur Chris Schroeder points out that Dubai is effectively the commercial capital for companies looking to gain access to about 300 million Arab consumers.
Every day, some start-up company founded by a Millennial entrepreneur gets purchased for millions of dollars.
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Only when demand starts to grow and some of those users start to pay for the product can the entrepreneur make a case that the start-up will earn investors an attractive return.
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My friend, the late Ron Morris (founder of The American Entrepreneur radio show) often told me that when he was considering whether to invest in a start-up, he would look at three things: the business model, the quality of the entrepreneur himself, and the external market.
In a country in which half the population is less than 30-years-old, Ireland seems to be teeming with start-up entrepreneurs or people with aspirations to become a startup entrepreneur.
The way an entrepreneur solves it will determine whether the start-up prevails or goes up in flames.
San Francisco entrepreneur Todd Pelman has founded a small start-up company called Blue Green Pacific, which produces a corkscrew-shaped, roof-mounted turbine that is still in the development phase.
More specifically, she cites research that shows the probability of start-up survival is 7% for a company started by an entrepreneur with no college education or industry expertise with both education and industry expertise, the odds of start-up survival rise to 77%.
When I work with an entrepreneur I always tell him that the moment his start-up is funded he should start planning his encore enterprise.
But Inderjit was also something more: she was a born entrepreneur, as focused and ferocious as any Silicon Valley start-up CEO.
Business school can give you many of the useful attributes you need to be a successful entrepreneur, says Aloysius Fekete, chief executive of London-based start-up MaxBips.
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Many young people had their first glimpse of a possible new future for themselves, others had their first conversation with an aspiring entrepreneur in another country, and still others visited a company, indeed, a start-up company for the first time.
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