1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Seong Kim, Corporate Strategy & Development at Chegg Inc. (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples. What have you been up to in the last few years that illustrates some of this framework thinking? Seong Kim: The most recent acquisition that we just announced was just over a week ago. It was the largest acquisition we’ve ever done in language learning. As a company that

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6 Udemy Courses on How To Build a Startup for an Early Exit

I’m a big advocate for building small, capital-efficient startups. Not all entrepreneurs need to chase Unicorns. Not all investors need to chase Unicorns. There are many more viable ideas for those smaller ventures and there are considerably more opportunities for their exits, which means cashing in earlier on your hard work.

TechCrunch: Is Entrepreneurship Just About The Exit?

Vivek Wadhwa asks a great question on TechCrunch: Is Entrepreneurship Just About The Exit? Vivek and I had a long discussion on this topic last weekend, and he extensively references that discussion in the piece. You have also read my recent piece, Built To Enjoy, on this topic. Vivek offers a number of good examples.

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Stardoll for Little Girls: Mattias Miksche (Part 3)

SM: What stage are you at now? Revenue? Profitability? Traffic? Customers? Users? Advertisers? Any other metrics you track? MM: We do not comment on our financials. We’re over 7 million uniques a month today and hope to be in the double digits soon. We’re over 2 million uniques in the U.S and over a million

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Financing & Exit

If you are a very early stage entrepreneur looking for financing, chances are you need a lot more than help with financing. Most likely, you need help with Positioning, as well as overall strategy. For the moment, I do not have the bandwidth to take these projects on on a pure equity basis. I do

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Vertical Travel Ad Network CEO Cree Lawson (Part 10)

SM: What are your thoughts about exit? CL: I don’t think Elvis will leave the building for a long time yet. We’ve certainly had offers that would have made me a very wealthy man, or at least a guy with a very loud car stereo.

Angel Investing: The Impact of Participation

Laura Roden drew my attention yesterday at a meeting of French delegates at Stanford to a Kauffman Foundation study on Angel investing. In most countries that are attempting to put an entrepreneurial ecosystem in place, Angels are an important piece of the equation. We have discussed this in detail in the context of India. Here

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Cracking the Very Small Business Market: PayCycle CEO Jim Heeger (Part 11)

SM: I was reading an article about how a lot of startups are using credit cards to finance their early days. American Express is a very common way of financing startups, and I have used it myself. JH: Rene used to use that as well. It was a big day when he got his name

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