You know how confident you are when you feel like you look good. A week of regular workouts and an application of the latest age-defying cream, and you’re polished enough to take on the world. A hair mishap or a shaving blunder, on the other hand, can make you want to stay hidden behind your […]
Elizabeth Macbride
A business journalist for 20 years, am the founder of Times of Entrepreneurship and the co-author of The New Builders.
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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital
One of the most frequent questions I get asked is “how do I get a job in venture?” In fact, I’ve written two posts over the years on this topic – one way back in 2005 and a follow-up to that a few years later in 2008 (the 2nd of the post is the more […]
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How A (Crazy) Main Street Entrepreneur Sparked A Renaissance In A Pennsylvania City
Tweet This We need individuals, dissenters, to shake up the system, before it is popular or safe to advocate for a cause. Steve Murray’s store was never going to scale in terms of revenue. But he had scale in another way: His vision scaled. “Walk down to my store,” Steve Murray said to me urgently that day in […]
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The Toyota Camry Of Cybersecurity: Israeli Soldier Built A Hot-Shot Startup On A Foundational Idea
When ambition knocks on the door, an entrepreneur has to answer it. In the case of Dean Sysman, a young Israeli who is CEO of a hot-shot firm called Axonius, the door-knock came on a client visit. He was CTO of an already successful cybersecurity startup, Cymmetria. But as he was installing Cymmetria’s sophisticated security solution at a […]
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Laundry Startup Takes Dubai For Whirl: Why Washmen Might Win Where Others Folded
One of the hottest spaces worldwide in the past three years has been the laundry service: The app that allows you to order laundry pickup and delivers the clothes back to you. New York and Washington, D.C. have Cleanly; Singapore has My Laundry Box. But there have been high-profile failures in the space, too. Washio, for […]
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John Sculley’s Lessons From Steve Jobs And Other Tech Greats On Producing Observable Insights
Tweet This If you’re going to be an entrepreneur, the types of talents you have change at each stage of a growing company. “You don’t really understand something well unless you understand it more than one way.” John Sculley is often thought of as one of the best CEOs of the late 20thcentury, a leader […]
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How The MIT Of Iran Helps Create Silicon Valley Startups
If Iran abides by the terms of the nuclear deal that call for inspections and a reduction in its nuclear infrastructure, economic sanctions in place since the Revolution in 1979 could begin to lift early next year. What many people don’t realize, though, is the extent to which Iranian immigrants have long been a force in […]
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How Startups Can Avoid Uber’s Pricing Fiasco
This story was originally published in Forbes in 2014. One of the darlings of this generation of tech companies, Uber, ran into what seems to be unanticipated trouble this year: A hefty backlash over its pricing polices. The company, which aims to disrupt taxis and black car services, started charging clients more if they took […]
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Why You Should Have an Extrovert on Your Startup Team
The benefits of personal networks in business are well documented, but do personality types help predict the ultimate success of those networks? New research from Stanford Graduate School of Business based on work in India says yes. Moreover, it’s having extroverts in the network that eventually produces better ideas for startups and teams. The researchers […]
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A Pakistani Entrepreneur’s Insight Led To An Untapped Market Of 780 Million
Up against some tough circumstances, Tawakkal, a young entrepreneur in Islamabad, Pakistan, runs a thriving carpentry business. He employs three full-time people, he says, and makes between $200 and $1,000 a month. In a country where the annual income per capita is $1,500, that’s great. His accomplishment is even more remarkable because he can’t read […]
