In the old days, a fledgling entrepreneur might have come to a TiE mixer, buttonholed a successful businessperson and pitched an idea over a plate of biryani.
There is the usual crop of tales intended to show him as a fledgling entrepreneur: he did his classmates' homework for a fee; he paid his way through law studies by selling vacuum cleaners and performing as a crooner on a cruise ship.
The shiny dish on each shanty serves a potential customer, maybe a budding video star or a fledgling entrepreneur.
Kubacki then did what many a fledgling entrepreneur does when they think they are on to something, he began telling anybody and everybody who would listen about his invention.
TripAdvisor is putting up $250,000 of its own money to allow 10,000 people who leave a review on its site to allocate a $25 Kiva microloan to a fledgling entrepreneur in the country they visited.
But as an angel investor he wasn't able to really take a meaningful role in the day-to-day work of a startup, and joining a VC firm made sense, especially the firm that originally backed him as a fledgling entrepreneur at AdMob.
