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Founders, VCs Might Not Like My Sharing This, But They Should

One of the more challenging skills to help develop in a founder, is being able to discern b.s. from experienced and valid advice. As you…

Sep 21, 2023

Founders, VCs Might Not Like My Sharing This, But They Should

Sep 21, 2023

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It’s never as easy as it looks.

I lost $50,000, more or less, on a business started in my 20s. Hurt a lot. I’m now 4d-ahem and finding peace with success. Lessons…

Jan 4, 2023

Jan 4, 2023

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How the 2025 White House Could Shape a Bold Economy for Startups and Innovators

With the dust still settling, I thought I’d wade into a precarious subject because I believe this Presidential election and the outcome…

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How the 2025 White House Could Shape a Bold Economy for Startups and Innovators

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When Entrepreneurship is Bad for the Economy

Entrepreneurship has long been celebrated as the ultimate engine of economic growth, innovation, and job creation. But what if the fervor…

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When Entrepreneurship is Bad for the Economy

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Paul O'Brien

Rethinking Startup Ecosystems to Build What Investors Really Want

In most of the world, startups are in disrepair. No more effectively can we just reboot or defrag a computer to actually fix it, than we…

Oct 28

Rethinking Startup Ecosystems to Build What Investors Really Want

Oct 28

Paul O'Brien

Seeking Better Startup Founder Agreements

Ever see a pie chart like this, or can you at least envision one, wherein a partner of yours (or God-forbid, you), expect a majority…

Oct 28

Seeking Better Startup Founder Agreements

Oct 28

Paul O'Brien

Seek the Contrarian: What to Expect of a Good Entrepreneurship Program

In a speech in Paris, in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt remarked the often encouraged, “Comparison Is the Thief of Joy.” That, when we compare…

Oct 15

Seek the Contrarian: What to Expect of a Good Entrepreneurship Program

Oct 15

Paul O'Brien

The Quantum Corridor

For too long, cities across the U.S. have attempted to define their startup communities by adopting monikers like “Silicon Prairie,”…

Oct 3

The Quantum Corridor

Oct 3

Paul O'Brien

Startups Solving Founders’ Problems are Failing

Here’s a problem that you might address as a startup founder: other startup founders struggle to find problems to take on, to come up with…

Sep 30

Startups Solving Founders’ Problems are Failing

Sep 30

Paul O'Brien

Founders, North Texas is the World’s FinTech Hub

“You’re really seeing a whole new North Texas ecosystem,” noted H. Ross Perot, Jr., son of the former presidential candidate, about the…

Sep 20

Founders, North Texas is the World’s FinTech Hub

Sep 20

Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien

CEO of MediaTech Ventures, CMO to #VC, #Startup Advisor. I get you funded. Father, marketer, author, #Austin. @seobrien & @AccelerateTexas. https://seobrien.com

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