November 22nd, 2006
When I was a kid I wanted a Nintendo. Yep, just a plain old NES. But my parents wouldn’t buy me one. That’s what started me on the entrepreneurial path. Every passing moment I started contriving ideas for how to get the money I needed to buy a Nintendo.
All entrepreneurs, at [...]
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November 2nd, 2006
Recently Charles River Venture kicked off a new idea for venture capital allowing entrepreneurs to get a loan before angel funding. The program is called QuickStart
I’m curious how your plans would change if you had 250,000 dollars instead of having to bootstrap your startup from scratch. Here’s a rough idea of what I would [...]
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October 26th, 2006
College Startup was recently approached by an investor with a very simple proposal:
I’ve been following your blog for a while and I have a proposition for you. I’ve been wondering whether the web can offer similar or better returns than the stock market. In some of your articles, you hint at this possibility. [...]
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October 13th, 2006
I’ve made a lot of mistakes…. in my life….and in my business. Some of those business mistakes are still, oh so tempting.
Here I want to mention one of the biggest mistake I made early on as an entrepreneur. The hope is that this can help you avoid the same detour as you [...]
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September 27th, 2006
Let us assume that you have a great concept for a start-up website project, but are finding it hard to implement owing to a lack of resources- both in your time and in terms of your finances. You look for a partner and are lucky enough to find someone who likes your vision and concept [...]
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