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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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Steve Blank , January 25, 2010 10 Tips for Adding Game Mechanics to a Non-Gaming Service - ReadWriteStart , September 21, 2010 Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own. -

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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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The concept, is we want o get them to an accelerator, get them investment, or get them to revenueany one of those paths would be great. We charge zero, and take no equity, and really there are very small operational costs for us to support startups. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. equity debate.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? It is also true that there are good deals and good entrepreneurs that can't find anyone to invest in them.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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And they’ve invested their time and trust in you. Failing fast is to disrespect the very customers who placed their trust in you. Remember that legally the order of payments (I’m not a lawyer, double check with a bankruptcy lawyer) is employees, creditors, equity holders. They’re relying on us. This is wrong.

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