Success in VC creates a virtual cycle: a VC backs a start-up, the start-up is a huge success and that success then generates publicity- both for the start-up and for the VC.
More of that fat, sassy baritone leads into a crazy rave-up that could start a spontaneous street party far better than those scripted hoedowns in the movies.
Why would anyone with a mortgage and family leave a stable job at a big company to go work for a start-up that has a less than 1% chance of surviving for more than a few years?
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Work will continue to give Ariane 5 a major upgrade, to provide it with a more powerful upper-stage engine that will also have a stop-start capability.
That has given us all a hands-on getting-things-done attitude that is also a necessity for start-ups.
As the rules dictate that teams must have at least a 10-minute warning a re-start, that meant the race had to be abandoned.
On the most immediate challenge, working out an arms control agreement to replace the START I treaty which expires December 5, the two presidents signed a joint understanding for a follow-on agreement to START that commits both parties to a legally binding treaty that will reduce nuclear weapons.
It might seem a bit odd that Cypress hosts a start-up within its walls.
And the most vital of all are short-term goals that will help a start-up learn what it needs to do to grow without burning through its resources.
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Slimtrader is a promising start-up that launched a commerce platform a year ago using the tools available in the developing world: feature phones and SMS. A traveler in Lagos, Nigeria can enter the text shortcode for a bus ticket and get a reply with a schedule and prices.
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Sarasvathy met personally with all of her subjects, presenting each with a case study about a hypothetical start-up and 10 decisions that the founder of such a company would have to make in building the venture.
Curry made one 3, hit a scooping layup and banked in a runner during Duke's 6-for-6 start that helped the Blue Devils to a football-esque 14-0 lead.
Bijan Sabet, our lead investor, is somebody who back when I was running my little consulting company, before Tumblr, we were a little software company called Davidville and I was working on a bunch of start-ups at the time, a couple start-ups that got funded both through Spark Capital and Bijan.
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Eddy Lu, the cofounder of Grubwithus, a great start-up that has created a social service to meet people over a meal, never felt content in Frame 1.
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But my hope is that after a difficult year -- and this year is going to be a difficult year -- that businesses start investing again, they start making decisions that, you know, in fact there's money to be made out there, customers or consumers start feeling that their jobs are stable and safe, and they start making purchases again.
Tech company Apple is another example of a beloved brand that went from a small start-up to towering giant, and both walk the thin line between popular underdog and willful superpower.
The company has managed to attract in a lot of start-ups that have a relationship with Philips or are a co-investment.
After studying a few exceptions to the pattern of disruption, Christensen concluded that the only way a big company could avoid being disrupted was to set up a small spinoff company that would function as a start-up, make the new low-end product, and be independent enough to ignore what counted as sensible for the mother ship.
Unplugged Instruments, a Silicon Valley start-up that was making a next-generation electronic guitar, also closed after failing to raise money this year.
Arsenal hardly missed him in a turbo-charged start that established the foundations for a first 45 minutes that saw them in charge of the tie by the interval.
He noted a lot of shareholders bought the stock thinking that Yahoo was going to start a multibillion-dollar buyback plan that would help lift the stock's near-term value.
After -- a little while after that, I think you start to think a little bit about the people who are back on Earth that are most precious to you, and then that little bit of loneliness can kick in.
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He first met Mr Jobs at Cornell University when he was in charge of NeXT Inc, a closely watched start-up that in 1988 introduced a desktop computer targeted at the education market.
Back then he said that keeping a start-up private by selling shares through a secondary market or to other VCs would let Libin keep Evernote private while giving his investors an attractive return.
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It seems that a high proportion of start-ups in an economy is actually a liability because they are so inefficient.
To get going: If you have a marketing-driven social media plan, that's a start. (If not, see Time's person of the year award for 2010.) Now layer in content that attracts potential candidates--company news, color commentary from employees, video of the work environment and of course job information.
But Floodgate operates in a way that matches the capital needs of a start-up and its desire to maintain control of its destiny.
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Enter Ganxy, a New York start-up that allows authors to create a showcase for their novels, complete with links to all the major retailers and even the option to sell direct through Ganxy or other sellers.
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But if a start-up does not achieve the financial targets that it agrees on as a condition of getting that money, the start-up is shuttered and the founder must leave the country.
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And if you become something like a real estate inspector or building inspector, or even if you have a job as a - commercial fisherman is a job that is not closed to black people, and you could start making good money as a commercial fisherman.
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