Index

A

  • Aaron's Dog Boarding
  • Accardi, Corrado
  • accelerators
  • Adidas
  • Adobe Systems
  • advertising
  • Aggarwal, Amit
  • Airbnb
  • Allen, Paul
  • Amazon
    • Bezos and
    • Prime
  • American Express
  • Andreessen Horowitz
  • angel investors
    • accessing
    • customer endorsements and
    • introducing start-ups to additional angel investors
    • “John's Business Angel Checklists” for
    • role of
    • U.S. start-up statistics
    • See also investors' questions; venture capital (VC)
  • AOL
  • Armstrong, Tim
  • ASK Raymond
  • August Capital
  • Availi, Kaneswaran

B

  • Banana Republic
  • Barney, Daniel
  • Bates, John
  • Battery Ventures
  • Behar, Yves
  • Benchmark Capital
  • Bennett, Warren
  • Berkshire Hathaway
  • Bettinelli, Greg
  • Bezos, Jeff
  • Blacher, Perry
  • Blank, Steve
  • Blecharczyk, Nathan
  • Blue Nile
  • bootstrapping
  • “British Burma jacket” (Banana Republic)
  • Browne, Rud
  • budget, creating
  • Budget Places
  • Buffett, Warren
  • BullGuard
  • Burkhart, Bryan
  • Busch, Henrik
  • business acumen, investors' questions about
  • business failure
    • avoiding pitfalls
    • cash and
    • identifying business problems
    • matchmaker model and
    • pay-in-advance model and
    • scarcity and flash-sale models and
    • service-to-product model and
    • subscription and Saas models and
  • business growth
    • starting locally
    • timing of
  • business plans
  • business size, scale of
  • business types
    • business-to-business (B2B)
    • consumer sales
    • matching customer funding to

C

  • Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival
  • Cap'n McCain's (cereal)
  • Carlyle Group
  • cash flow
    • business failure and
    • importance of
    • liquidity
    • Loot Stores example
    • payout from investors and
  • Casual ...

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