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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Tool Users - Startups often have a long gestation period in which the team is in discovery mode, defining the company's value proposition, target market, pricing, business model, etc.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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I’m sure you’ve heard the meme that “email is dead” – if fact if you Google it you’ll find a long list of articles that will mislead you. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). The broader market knows businesses want calls and people want to make them. There are 2.9

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Crowd-Funding Success Usually Brings New Challenges

Startup Professionals Musings

Well-known crowd-funding platforms on the Internet, led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo , have worked for years to provide non-equity “funding” for many startups, as outlined in my previous article Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

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Is Crowd-Funding the Answer When Investors Decline?

Startup Professionals Musings

Well-known crowd-funding platforms on the Internet, led by Kickstarter and Indiegogo , have worked for years to provide non-equity “funding” for many startups, as outlined in my previous article Will the Real Crowd Funding Model Please Stand Up? Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” But this article missed the real trend. More Calls in the Future: The premise of the article can be summed up in this quote. If you haven’t you should read the article – it’s an interesting trend.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

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OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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Otherwise, grab a cup ‘o coffee … Clicking on any graph below will take you to that article. Here talking about lithium-ion batteries and the early lead we’ve squandered in that market: “ With some technologies, both scaling and innovation take place overseas. Such is the case with advanced batteries.