Emerging Business

EB News of the Week – 4/17/17

* Meet Alexa von Tobel, Who Dropped Out of Harvard and Built a $350 Million Financial Planning Empire  [Inc] * How to Find Great Co-Founders for Your Startup — Fast  [Entrepreneur] * Why Flybrix Skipped Crowdfunding to Launch its LEGO Drone Kits  [TechCrunch] * Why Spotify’s IPO-less IPO is a Smart Idea  [Recode] *  Apple […]

April 16, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Alexa von Tobel, Apple, Co-Founders, EB News, Flybrix, IPO, LearnVest, Self-Driving Cars, Spotify

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 2/6/17

* Why a 300-Person San Francisco Startup Doesn’t Offer Anyone a Job Until They’ve Undergone a ‘Trial Week’  [BusinessInsider] * How These Founders Built a $2.1 Billion Business by Ignoring Investors’ Advice [Inc] * 20 Crazy New Things We Learned About Snap  [Entrepreneur] * Why This Founder Thinks She Can Make A Good Educational Kid’s […]

February 5, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: EB News, FCC, Hiring, Immersed Games, IPO, Net Neutrality, Snap, Weebly, Zendesk

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week for 1/30/17

*  Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran Says This is a Sure Sign a Business Will Fail  [FoxNews] * 20 Facts About the World’s Billion-Dollar Startups  [Entrepreneur] * Snap Said to Plan to Publicly File for IPO Late Next Week  [Businessweek] * Here are the 5 Scariest Revelations from Pew’s New Cybersecurity Survey  [FastCompany] * Bill Gates […]

January 29, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Barbara Corcoran, Bill Gates, Billion Dollar Startups, Cybersecurity, EB News, IPO, Snap

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 12/26/16

* These 6 Women Undergrads At MIT Invented A Game Changer For The Blind  [Forbes] * What Kinds of Companies Will Go Public in 2017?  [Entrepreneur] * If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich?  [Businessweek] * Breakthrough Brands 2017  [Fortune]  * Was Yahoo’s Email Scanning Part of Government Effort to Reinterpret Fourth Amendment?  [SiliconValleyBusinessJournal]

December 25, 2016 | 1 min read | Tagged: Branding, Brands, EB News, IPO, MIT, Success Predictors, Tactile

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 9/14/15

* 7 Reasons Smart Startups Establish “Coopetition”  [Entrepreneur] * The Startup That Resurrected Matt Damon’s and Ben Affleck’s Long Lost Project  [Inc] * Subscription Box Startups Are the Newest Craze: Cratejoy Can Help You Launch Yours Today  [Forbes] * Tech Firms are Notably Scarce In The IPO Market  [WallStreetJournal] * This is How You Make […]

September 14, 2015 | 1 min read | Tagged: Ben Affleck, Coopetition, Cratejoy, EB News, Front Row, IPO, Matt Damon, Project Greenlight, Subscription Box

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Brian J. Burt Partner