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Combustion Matters More Than Scale

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Such fit exists when a profitable customer acquisition model can be repeatedly executed with consistent results and without the need of heroic efforts. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Photo credit: Flickr born1945.

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8 Fundraising Deal Breakers Inexperienced Entrepreneurs Routinely Create

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Some of the most common include: Junked-up Capital Table – A hodgepodge of small investors who may cause potential headaches for management and/or institutional investors. As such, remote members in key roles should be prepared to either routinely commute or relocate, once institutional capital is secured. Frictionless Fundraising.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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November 23, 2010 Entrepreneurs, Using Outsourcing to Obtain Capital Efficiency Needs to be Thought Through to be Effective - Robert Ochtel , June 7, 2010 Teen Entrepreneur, Brian Wong, Youngest Founder to Receive Angel Funding - teenentrepreneurblog.com , October 28, 2010 Build Your Own Silicon Valley? First Principles.

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

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Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Secure Your Intellectual Property Too Early. Share and Enjoy.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. After a few acquisitions they offered many of the services you think about as foundations to social networks today. Close shop to try and control monetization and you can only rely on your own internal innovation machine & capital. cheap accessible digital hardware].

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Acquisition. Venture capital. With LaunchPad’s help, more than 61 Orange County companies have raised more than $97 million in startup capital, seed, and series A investments — and much of that money comes from Valley investors betting on their neighbors to the south. Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Newsletters.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. He previously led business development for Affiliate Fuel, leading to its acquisition by Experian in 2005. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville.