In recent years, the term entrepreneur has been glamorized, valorized and mapped to the technology-startup type entrepreneur, so I am using the unqualified term for simplicity.
Bufferbox is the type of startup that Smith says requires an enormously complex and intellectual skillset.
But there is another type of successful startup as well, that is often a higher-risk gamble for investors.
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It is important, as a startup, to understand which type of product you have, because they require different kinds of investors.
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The newer crop of services aren't making the same type of claims as Startup Predictor, an automated tool that once promised to predict what a start-up's valuation would be at the end of three years.
What type of network will a startup get you compared to a larger more established company?
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And as he looked for his next startup venture, he realized he could create an incubator aimed at the type of company he was mentoring.
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In fact, Tesla and Musk, a self-made billionaire whose Space X startup is privatizing space travel, would seem to be poster children for the type of entrepreneurialism Romney says he seeks to unleash.
Office suites will host startup companies, including one devising a system for cultivating algae as biofuel, another producing a type of pavement that lets rainwater seep into the ground instead of flooding sewers.
Though this time I was working on a writing project, the two cases had startup symmetry: the amount of time spent developing was just as stressful, the need for the type of funding that allows you to refine a finished product just as crucial.
Since Kiip connects people to real-world rewards on its mobile app, it would be a natural step for Kiip to eventually move into location-based rewards, say at local businesses through some type of check-in or loyalty program the likes of which Groupon, Foursquare, startup Belly and others are trying to provide.
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