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Not Urgent But Still Important: Three Things Every Founder Must Do (Part One)

Not Urgent But Still Important: Three Things Every Founder Must Do (Part One)

Feb 26, 2021 | 2021, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Start-Ups, Valuation

Part One of Three: Valuation[1] The question of how one should value an early-stage company is often asked, but usually has no good answers. If the opportunity is large enough (which is the goal with venture capital), a thorough valuation is perceived as irrelevant....
Venture Capital and the Destruction of America: Why Marc Andreessen Is Wrong.

Venture Capital and the Destruction of America: Why Marc Andreessen Is Wrong.

Aug 27, 2020 | 2020, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, Social Capital and Social Entrepreneurialism, Start-Ups

In his essay released on April 18, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 Crisis, Marc Andreessen — famed venture capitalist and founder of Netscape — implored businesses, business people, and society to build great new things – in healthcare, in education, in...
We Need to Save Birmingham’s Entrepreneurial Scene

We Need to Save Birmingham’s Entrepreneurial Scene

May 29, 2020 | 2020, Birmingham, COVID-19, Entrepreneurialism, Financing, Start-Ups

I am still not sure how COVID-19 will ultimately effect start-up funding, but I do believe that we can safely assume that there will be less of it in the coming years. How exactly will this play out? I don’t know. But the question I have now is whether institutional...
Marathons and Start-Ups

Marathons and Start-Ups

Feb 20, 2020 | 2020, Birmingham, Business Lessons, Entrepreneurialism, Start-Ups

Originally posted on Mike Goodrich’s LinkedIn page The Mercedes Marathon was this weekend. Patrick Koech won with a time of 2:25:40 or 5:34 a per mile.  Running slightly over five-and-a-half minutes per mile for one mile is phenomenal, much less 26. Those of you...

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