Emerging Business

Emerging Business News of the Week – 7/31/17

* Back To The Bootstrap – Living Without Series A Funding  [Forbes] * Starbucks to Close All 379 Teavana Stores  [Inc] * Tesla’s Model 3 Arrives With a Surprise 310-Mile Range  [Businessweek] * Cigarettes May Soon Have Too Little Nicotine to Be Addictive, FDA Says  [Fortune] * Dear Floyd Mayweather, You’re Why the SEC Exists  […]

July 30, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Addiction, Bootstrapping, Cigarettes, EB News, Initial Coin Offering, Raising Capital, SEC, Series A, Starbucks, Tesla Model 3

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 6/11/17

*  5 Giant Companies That Bootstrapped Their Way to Success  [Inc] * Why Millennials Want More Than Just Work: The Importance Of Your ‘Double Bottom Line’  [Forbes] *  Facebook’s Image-Recognition Tech Is Teaching 40,000 Images A Second To Understand Context  [FastCompany] * Teaching Teams of Drones to Work Alongside Humans and Nature  [TechCrunch] *  This […]

June 11, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Bootstrapping, Drone, EB News, Facebook, Image-Recognition, Jackson Pollock, Millenials

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 2/13/17

* How Much Money Would You Need to Ditch Your Job—Forever?  [Money] * The Top 20 Fast-Food Franchises  [Entrepreneur] * How A Former Miss North Carolina Went From Living In A Car To Bootstrapping A Real Estate Business  [Forbes] * The 5 Things That Are Causing Employees To Burn Out  [FastCompany] * No, Mark Zuckerberg […]

February 12, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: Bootstrapping, EB News, Employees, Facebook, Fast-Food Franchises, Retirement, Stock Structure

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 9/19/16

* Harvard Says That Entrepreneurship Is the Brightest Spot in a Crappy Economy  [Entrepreneur] * Bootstrapping 101: How I Survived Four Years Without A Paycheck To Build My Business  [Forbes] * 21 Business Books Worth Reading at Least Once a Year  [Inc] * The Venture Capital Firm That Wasn’t There  [Fortune] * Elon Musk on […]

September 18, 2016 | 1 min read | Tagged: Bootstrapping, Business Books, EB News, Entrepreneurship

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Brian J. Burt Partner

EB News of the Week – 1/4/16

Happy New Year! * 2016 Small Business Trends  [USAToday] * The Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2016  [WallStreetJournal] * Investors Predict Fewer Unicorns, Tighter Purse Strings In 2016  [SVBusinessJournal] * I Interviewed the Most Successful People Alive—Here’s What I Learned  [Fortune] * 7 Reasons You Should Stop Looking for Venture Capital  [Entrepreneur]

January 3, 2016 | 1 min read | Tagged: Bootstrapping, EB News, Small Business Trends, Successful People, Technology, Unicorns, Venture Capital

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Brian J. Burt Partner