Monetizing People Search: MyLife.com CEO Jeff Tinsley (Part 3)

SM: What did you do after being the CEO of GreatDomains? JT: We ran into a company which at the time was called Snowball and which eventually became IGN. They were performing terribly as a publicly traded company. Their market cap was below their cash on the balance sheet. I approached them about a property,

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Forbes Column 2010: Families: Nurture Entrepreneurs

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Nicola Corzine, Band of Angels Acorn Fund (Part 3)

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Monetizing People Search: MyLife.com CEO Jeff Tinsley (Part 2)

SM: If you did not have the original idea, how did you wind up as the CEO and the largest shareholder? JT: I got a little bit lucky. I had met the founders of that business because I was trying to work on putting real estate online. I contacted them because I saw an ad

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Roundtable Recap: May 20 – Validation, Validation, Validation

This morning the roundtable ran very smoothly.  The five entrepreneurs who presented are all in various stages of validating who their best customers are.  The best conversations during these roundtables usually stem from the businesses that have already been validated to some degree, simply because I am often not the target customer for a product.

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Innovation – Need Of The Hour Now On Amazon

Readers, It has been a grueling couple of years, but I am happy to announce that Innovation: Need Of The Hour, my fourth book in the Entrepreneur Journeys series, is now ready. In this volume, I have dealt with the challenge innovators are facing today, and looked for solutions to alternative business models and frameworks

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May 20 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording: