Scott McNealy shares his recent start-up experience.
She is certainly not alone in believing that truth-stretching is common in the start-up experience.
Asked about the missing iconic mascot, an Apple spokeswoman responded by e-mail: "As with everything in Mac OS X 'Jaguar,' the start-up experience has been vastly improved to be fast, simple and gorgeous.
That means, the study said, that they pay little attention to the documentation from entrepreneurs about their academic credentials, work or start-up experience, previous success in raising equity capital, ability to form a top-notch management team or even how much money they want.
Ms. Munk recalls that when she put together a business plan for urbanhound.com in 1999, she decided that she needed $50,000 to get started, a friend with start-up experience laughed in her face, telling her that she needed to come up with much bigger numbers, to give investors "something to dream about".
Unfortunately, "it is almost impossible to find people with start-up experience in Europe," remarks Miner.
We find that entrepreneurs with specific industry experience and start-up experience are able to provide ownership more selectively and raise more resources from their helpers.
Serial entrepreneurs can benefit from signaling effects as (new) investors tend to judge start-up experience as a positive indicator of entrepreneurial qualities (Hsu 2003, 2004).
To summarize the start-up experience with patients identified as eligible during the first four quarters of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Case Management (PCM) program and to characterize the extent of the services proved by pharmacists in the program.
