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Devon George has been helping startups apply strategic execution and infrastructure to their business operations since 2001 and is currently the President of DMV Capital Corp, a family office. He has built and developed strategies for web, software, ecommerce and technology companies. Before DMV Capital, Devon served as a founding member of Freshnotes, a social [...]

“_____ is the new black” is a saying that something has suddenly become very popular. Take the following: “Google is the new black”. That became popular when people started using Google as a verb. There’s a new trend in the world of entrepreneurship. And it’s this: “Gaining access to people is the new black”. You [...]

During this week’s roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Warsaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Sherbrooke, Canada; Oakland, California; and Austin, Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world. Let’s dive in and see what they each are working on. Rockify First up, [...]

At today’s roundtable, we had a jam-packed pitch session with five Israeli start-ups. Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. Both the audience and the presenters had a significant representation from that extraordinary start-up nation. In fact, Saul Singer, author of Start-up Nation had also [...]

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it…” -Albert Einstein I’ve been an entrepreneur for about eight years now and over those years I’ve heard many folks using language about funding that I am not sure is 100% correct and used properly. I believe that our ability to clearly communicate what we need [...]

Summer is over. Time to get back to work. At today’s roundtable, I synthesized some posts from our blog to give entrepreneurs, incubators, investors, and economic development agencies a flavor of what we’ve been doing this summer to make life easier for you. In How Not To Sell Equity Too Cheap, Too Soon, entrepreneurs would find [...]

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” -Plato, The Republic mngirl3 asked a great question that got me thinking, when should a person seriously consider incorporating their idea into a business? In today’s hyper entrepreneurial environment, which has been highlighted by the Kauffman Foundation, it appears that everyone with an idea is [...]

Joseph Warren is the founder of CoCreativ, a Starbucks for entrepreneurs. The concept behind the company is an entrepreneurial cafe for the virtual business owners to go, hang out, do work and interact with other entrepreneurs. Joseph is a very funny guy and some of the advice he gives is priceless. He does startup coaching [...]

During this week’s roundtable, we started off by discussing the pre-incubation procedure we are recommending with audience members from different parts of the world. This week, I’ve had several meetings with venture funds, incubators, corporate accelerators and other significant players in the startup eco-system. One theme seems to come up over and again, especially from geographies [...]

During this week’s roundtable, we had Inoh Choe from San Jose, California, pitch DemoTunes, a freemium concept. One of the discussions that ensued was about how to bootstrap a freemium venture. I think this is a question on many minds, and we discussed it today as a core topic. DemoTunes DemoTunes is proposed to be [...]