Blogs About "entrepreneurs"

Every entrepreneur knows how critical customer service is; but when you are wearing multiple hats trying to grow your business, it’s easy to view customer service as a nuisance.  It is just so time consuming – returning calls, following up, solving problems, soothing concerns, expediting orders.  But, oh, so important.  You would love to have someone to take it off your shoulders, but have hesitated for a number of...

SHE MEANS Business is a new documentary about women entrepreneurs.  From their campaign on Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1118297434/she-means-business?ref=recently_launched):

Women Entrepreneurs are amazing people.  We create businesses, and the jobs, salaries, economic growth, and futures that come from that.  As entrepreneurs ourselves, we were amazed that no one has yet told the incredible stories of women succeeding (and sometimes failing), building legacies, and braving new frontiers.  So we - Executive Producer Jacqueline Baptist, and...

 

This first...

 

For my Thanksgiving blog I am giving thanks for entrepreneurs’ endeavors to create something tangible and great starting from mere ideas.  Many compelling stories about well-known, highly regarded companies—Zappos, Southwest, Chipotle, CarMax, and Apple, to name a few—center on the opportunities, complexities and risks inherent in entrepreneurship.  These ventures navigated the hurdles of early stage company and capital formation, scaled up, achieved exceptional customer and brand loyalty.  Their narratives bring to...

Last week I was drafting text announcing a new program that Amy and I are launching in September. As I often do, I sent Amy the draft for editing.

She sent back her edits with a note saying “In general I think it is very important never to write “we believe.” Men never write those words. They make statements”. I understand her point. It’s one I’ve heard ...

When I was 24, I raised a $4 million round of venture funding from Sequoia Capital.  I was arrogant and self-involved, so I felt like I fit in pretty well with all those men over on Sand Hill Road.  Until, one day I disagreed with one of the partners over the firing of one of my employees. 

“You little bitch.” He screamed at me over the phone.

“Consider your...

by Shimi Shah, Executive Director

I have now been in the investment business for over 15 years, and boy have I seen some shockers!  More about that subject another time. So when a friend of mine called me and said he was really excited about a brand new company that had developed an amazing product for...

Written by Simone Brummelhuis and originally published on The Next Women

@Companies -with a woman on their team- with Plans to Play Big: Astia is now accepting applications for its Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Program*, October 10-15, 2011.

Astia encourages high-growth companies at any stage to apply now to join the Astia Portfolio and benefit from the programing, advisory services, investor connections and peer-to-peer network, all specifically designed to support and...

“the good kind of friend
not only encourages
you to grow
and inspires you
to grow ~
the good kind of friend
makes you
believe you can grow.”
~ terri st. cloud

 

I love Terri’s poetry! What I particularly love about this piece is that “friend” can apply to a wealth of different people: a family member, an actual friend,...

"As part of our ongoing commitment to start-ups, emerging companies and the entrepreneurial community, we are providing access to critical forms, memoranda, best practices and other resources to enable capital efficient company formation." – taken from www.goodwinfoundersworkbench.com

85 Broads corporate partner firm Goodwin Procter MUST have been listening to the panel of entrepreneurs (LearnVest, Journelle, Cellona Therapeutics) at 85 Broads 2020 Vision conference, as their new site "Founder's Workbench" is an online...