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If you are an entrepreneur who perceives a risk in being replaced when the VCs arrive, you aren’t seeing ghosts. The majority of startups don’t maintain the CEO as the company grows, assuming the company scales beyond $20 million in revenue. Fifty-four percent of Wall Street Journal 2010 VC backed companies have non-founder CEOs while [...] Post originally appeared at i2E – Innovation to Enterprise » Blog by Tom Walker.
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How to remain founder AND CEO
July 30th, 2012 
Tom Walker 
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Tags: Blog, board of directors, entrepreneur, Entrepreneurs, SeedStep Angels, Tom Walker, VC 
Comments OffEntrepreneurial passion + i2E = success
July 27th, 2012 Tom Walker In June, Forbes posted the “Are You an Entrepreneur?” survey on www.forbes.com. The survey, adapted from a Kauffman FastTrac questionnaire, invited respondents to test their entrepreneurial aptitude by rating themselves on personal characteristics and skills that match up with what it takes to be an entrepreneur. More than 5,000 individuals responded. Passion was the No. [...] Post originally appeared at i2E – Innovation to Enterprise » Blog by Tom Walker.
Posted in i2e Tags: advisory services, Blog, Capital, Entrepreneurs, Forbes, Kauffman, SeedStep Angels, Tom Walker Comments OffNeighboring States Investment in R&D
July 20th, 2012 Tom Walker We’ve been writing for the last few weeks about the importance of investing in research and development. It’s interesting what’s happening in the states around us. For starters, The U. S. Department of Commerce announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) will be opening up three new offices, plus the office already [...] Post originally appeared at i2E – Innovation to Enterprise » Blog by Tom Walker.
Posted in i2e Tags: bioscience, Blog, Entrepreneurs, research and development, SeedStep Angels, Tom Walker Comments OffA broad-based economic target
July 16th, 2012 Tom Walker The US Chamber of Commerce has released the third edition of the study, Enterprising States, Policies that Produce, which examines and ranks economy performance by states as well as what various states are doing to create “21st century jobs.” When I receive any report that ranks by state, my first tendency is to want to [...] Post originally appeared at i2E – Innovation to Enterprise » Blog by Tom Walker.
NASA launches tech transfer site
July 13th, 2012 Tom Walker NASA has announced a new Internet-based Technology Transfer Portal as a one-stop way for businesses, entrepreneurs, industry, and the general public to encourage the commercialization of NASA-developed IP and technologies. It’s an open invitation to sort through data from all 10 NASA field centers and headquarters, to find information, patents and technologies to complete a [...] Post originally appeared at i2E – Innovation to Enterprise » Blog by Tom Walker.
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