(Photo: demo of a proximity-sensor based marketing platform from office hours) I’ve just spent a week in Istanbul, attending conferences, hosting open office hours for two days, meeting with local investors and hosting...
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I think it’s all about the approach and the beginning. If a local 34-year old rapper from Korea can make the second-most viewed video on Youtube, your startup can also make it globally....
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What is a convertible note? A convertible note is a short-term loan that doesn’t get paid back like a typical bank loan, but converts into preferred shares when the company raises an equity...
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We started in 2007 with a simple thought: how can we be useful to entrepreneurs in New York City? (Howard Morgan, First Round Capital, ER10) The goal was to have a “take-away”...
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(ERA Winter 2012 class) Entrepreneurs Roundtable will have its 50th event next month in August, 2012. We started in 2007 and hosted a “free” event every month for entrepreneurs and investors. And we...
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I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how the “team-idea fit” really defines a startup’s success. After making some investments through ERA (more than 30) and being fortunate enough to see and work together...
Read More →In addition to business development, securing partnership and local marketing, I believe that global startups can benefit vastly from visiting the US entrepreneurial centers, without having to move their operations. Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator(ERA)...
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Sounds like an oxymoron, but mostly true. You have to know technology to be able to outsource technology. Software development is more art than an exact science. There are a million different ways...
Read More →As we are building great companies at ERA in New York City, through my international background, I am starting to notice some very strong trends and indicators that tell me it’s a great...
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The worst thing during a presentation is to lose your audience by making all the wrong and unfounded assumptions about how your startup will take off. Some tips to improve how you communicate...
Read More →From “How to win friends and influence people” by Dale Carnegie (first published in 1937): The president of an important Wall Street bank once described, in a talk before one of my classes,...
Read More →1. Explore a domain at: http://instantdomainsearch.com 2. Get the domain at Google Apps: http://google.com/a 3. Login to GoDaddy to redirect the domain to your server from within Google Apps. 4. Create a virtual...
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