Archive for February 10th, 2005
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John Dmohowski: “Angel investors are probably not as well understood and certainly get less attention from the business press than the more traditional Venture Capital firms. Angels are accredited investors (high net worth) who pool their business knowledge and interest in helping fledgling technology companies. They invest very early in the process, usually at the [...]
Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Raise Venture Capital
Jason Calacanis: VCs are betting with OPM 90% of the time. There are very few VCs who are actually betting their own money. Most of them raise money from limited partners (think CALPERS, University endowments, etc), and those limited partners have very specific goals when they invest. VCs live and die by the window and [...]
How to Choose a Profitable Business
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Start Your Own Business the Right Way
The Monster Blog: This Wall Street Journal article tells the story of a woman who was so tired of her corporate sales job that she was ready to quit and retire right after her wedding. While planning her wedding, she came up with an idea: selling wedding favors. As an experiment, she built a Web [...]
Good Systems Let You Work On, Not In, Your Business
Anita Campbell in Small Business Trends: Rich Fein had been a business-to-business database marketer when I first met him back in 1999. He was one of the key people I hired to help build my first Internet business. … He acquired a franchise from a company called CertaPro Painters. Naturally I wanted to hear all [...]
Only one week left in the voting for The 2005 Business Blogging Awards. I was lucky enough to be nominated in the Best VC/Entrepreneur Blog category, and would really appreciate your support and a vote. Update: I won!
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has an excellent post about starting a new weblog based solely on the expectation of a large payments from Google Adsense: Michael Buffington writes that he’s just started a new blog on the topic of Asbestos. He’s doing so not because he’s interested in it but largely because it pays good [...]
