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Customer Validation - 33 Great Articles

SoCal CTO

Beware of Mentors. In both cases, I was the mentor telling the person that the idea, as I understood it was "not great." I saw a great post from Tristan Kromer Pivoting on Investor Feedback a.k.a It was a top post on StartupRoar on Tuesday. Either: "That’s interesting. " One was an enterprise software product.

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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

TechCrunch LA

Designed to be a collaborative startup company incubator alongside corporate partners, Launchpad focuses on developing new consumer tech businesses focused on M13’s main investment areas: health, food, transportation, and housing. Anna Barber, partner, M13. Image Credit: Raif Strathmann.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared on Forbes. I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. I assume you become his mentor? In a class by himself.

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The Master Checklist of EVERYTHING You Need to Start a Business

Jason Nazar

File Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws with the Secretary of State’s Office. File the Articles of Organization and an Operating Agreement with the Secretary of State’s Office. Design a logo ( 99designs ). Business Mentors. Ask mentors to join your Board of Advisors (for the overall benefit of the company).

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What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber

Both Sides of the Table

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. To be a great entrepreneur you really do need talent. You need to be great at something: technology back-end, front-end design, usability, sales, marketing, quantitative analysis, leadership –> whatever. And he has acted as a personal mentor for Justin ever since.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. This is the first article from Jason L.

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Boomers are Looking for Another Bite at the Apple

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. The article also refers to government data showing that those 55 to 64 and older represent one of the fastest growing groups of self-employed workers. Tags: entrepreneurs startups business.

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