So you want to be an Entrepreneur Blog » Entrepreneur news, events, people and info http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog How to decide if starting a business is really for you Sun, 29 Aug 2010 01:43:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 What to know about your first business trip to China http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-to-know-about-your-first-business-trip-to-china/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-to-know-about-your-first-business-trip-to-china/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:23:39 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-to-know-about-your-first-business-trip-to-china/ After 25 years in high tech I am making my first trip to mainland China (I have done business in Taiwan for years) so I thought I would make sure that I did my homework before the trip. In…

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  • Want to hit me with a question

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/talk-to-me-liveat-startup-school-this-friday/feed/ 0 20 lessons from Startup School you should burn into your brain! http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/20-lessons-from-startup-school-you-should-burn-into-your-brain/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/20-lessons-from-startup-school-you-should-burn-into-your-brain/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:42:42 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/20-lessons-from-startup-school-you-should-burn-into-your-brain/ Paul Graham, as you may know runs Y combinator and also writes very useful essays on various topics many of which I think are excellent and say so here in this blog.

He really got a double whammy recently…

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/20-lessons-from-startup-school-you-should-burn-into-your-brain/feed/ 0 Great seminar for Startup financing in London http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/great-seminar-for-startup-financing-in-london/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/great-seminar-for-startup-financing-in-london/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:08:41 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/great-seminar-for-startup-financing-in-london/ Doug_in_Ipswich[1] My friend Doug Richard and his School for Startups is running what will be a superb seminar on raising financing in London and if you are in that area I urge you to attend if you are raising…

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/great-seminar-for-startup-financing-in-london/feed/ 0 Get a Complete Set of Founder-friendly Legal Docs http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/get-a-complete-set-of-founder-friendly-legal-docs/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/get-a-complete-set-of-founder-friendly-legal-docs/#comments Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:54:48 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/get-a-complete-set-of-founder-friendly-legal-docs/ Adeo at TheFunded has come up with some time and cost saving free legal docs that look good if you are US based and starting up. They are written to be less “VC-sided” and if you can use them…

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/get-a-complete-set-of-founder-friendly-legal-docs/feed/ 0 "So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur" finally makes it to “digital” http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur-finally-makes-it-to-digital/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur-finally-makes-it-to-digital/#comments Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:46:02 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur-finally-makes-it-to-digital/ tobe kindle1 "So You Want To Be An Entrepreneur" finally makes it to “digital” I am delighted to say that my book can now be downloaded and read as a much cheaper and more convenient digital format for Kindle and E-readers.

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/so-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur-finally-makes-it-to-digital/feed/ 0 5 milestones to reach before raising venture capital http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/5-milestones-to-reach-before-raising-venture-capital/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/5-milestones-to-reach-before-raising-venture-capital/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:10:34 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/5-milestones-to-reach-before-raising-venture-capital/

I was talking to a friend from my mentoring group at Stanford who works closely with both students and startups, Glenn Winokur, and he told me about some useful blog posts at the FreshBooks website written by Related posts:

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/5-milestones-to-reach-before-raising-venture-capital/feed/ 2 What can you learn from Joe Costello…so you want to be an entrepreneur? http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-can-you-learn-from-joe-costelloso-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-can-you-learn-from-joe-costelloso-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:38:00 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-can-you-learn-from-joe-costelloso-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/ JoeCostello At one of the classes that I am a mentor at UC Berkeley HAAS Joe Costello came and gave a lively talk, he is a charismatic and very tall entrepreneur famous for growing Cadence to…

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/what-can-you-learn-from-joe-costelloso-you-want-to-be-an-entrepreneur/feed/ 0 A fun video about being an entrepreneur…and a viral lesson! http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/a-fun-video-about-being-an-entrepreneurand-a-viral-lesson/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/a-fun-video-about-being-an-entrepreneurand-a-viral-lesson/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 03:03:46 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/a-fun-video-about-being-an-entrepreneurand-a-viral-lesson/ The guys at grasshopper know how to take their marketing viral…produce a fun message, very well produced, if a little cheesy and get the world to do the rest!

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]]> http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/a-fun-video-about-being-an-entrepreneurand-a-viral-lesson/feed/ 0 Been laid off…should you hire yourself? http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/been-laid-offshould-you-hire-yourself/ http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/been-laid-offshould-you-hire-yourself/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:53:00 +0000 Jon Gillespie-Brown http://www.tobeanentrepreneur.com/blog/been-laid-offshould-you-hire-yourself/ You know the numbers

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in FEBRUARY 2009 Nonfarm payroll employment continued to fall sharply in February (-651,000), and the unemployment rate rose from 7.6 to 8.1 percent. In February, job losses were…

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