Meet Flipboard the $10.5M Superstar Invested App
The web’s ablaze with speculation about the latest announcement about the new start-up in town. According to All Things Digital, a new social magazine called Flipboard has secured $10.5M in funding from a who’s who in Silicon Valley. Investors include Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Facebook co-founder Dustin Moscovitz, and Ashton Kutcher. There’s also a number [...]
Read MoreNewMe Conference: Venture Capital and Private Equity
Black Web 2.0 recently held the NewMe Conference. If you’re unfamiliar, the conference was set up to bring together the creative, innovative energy of minority entrepreneurs. The goal of the two day event was not only to engage in discussion on where to find opportunities to nurture opportunities for blacks in new media, but to [...]
Read MoreWrite a Business Plan, But Don’t Pitch It
Write a business plan but don’t pitch that plan. What you are selling more than anything is you.
Read MoreThe Best Way to Think About Entrance and Exit Strategies
When I got my first job out of college, a well respected mentor told me to be thinking about my second job the first day I showed up at work for my first job. This didn’t mean I shouldn’t do the best I possibly could at my first job but that I should have a [...]
Read MoreThe Case of Hype Vs. Reality
The past can tell us a lot about where we are going. The past can also pre-sage history and fortunes to be made. Its mistakes and miscalculations can also be repeated. Nowhere is this truer than in business. Believe it or not, you are neither the first nor the last entrepreneur who is destined for [...]
Read MoreThe Academic vs the Non-Academic Approach to Raising Capital
When it comes to figuring out whether a venture capital, finance company, angel investor or early-stage private equity firm is up to snuff, there is the non-academic approach and the academic approach.
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