Category: Venture Capital
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12 Vital Questions for Any New Business
Global Entrepreneurship Week It is Global Entrepreneurship Week on 18 November through 23 November.  There are events all over the world.  The overall organisation website is: www.unleashingideas.org. You can find out more following twitter hashtags #GEW, #GEWSpain, #IESEGEW.  There will be plenty of events in your city led by Entrepreneurs’ Organisation, The Kauffman Foundation and many more…
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Yahoo pays Millions to Teen Coder (the real story)
The story in the tech news of the last few days is the purchase of Summly by Yahoo for the sum of $30M, making the 17-year old founder Nick D’Aloisio an instant millionaire. It sounds fairly simple. The story they want you to believe: Teen whizz writes cool app. Â App downloaded by millions. Â Yahoo gets…
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5 Steps to Turnaround Bankrupt Companies
Alfred J. Moran gives 5 steps to turnaround bankrupt or deeply troubled companies. He has turned around companies for 25 years. Here are his 5 steps: Grab the Cash. Freeze the Expenses. Interview Everyone (all the information about what is wrong and what should be done is already there). Set a strategy (a half-right strategy now…
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Pitching: Get the first 10 words right
What are the first ten words of your next pitch, speech or presentation? Participants of Wayra Week Barcelona 2012 I was at Wayra Week Barcelona this week working with 30 selected startup businesses to prepare their companies for growth and investment. All were looking to raise a round of venture capital financing for their businesses. I spent…