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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. I love how transparently Danielle lives her startup (& encourages other to join in) because it provides much needed transparency to other startups. Let’s set up a framework. Gross Burn vs. Net Burn.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

socalTECH

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Matt Cooper: It was a classic, scratch-your-own-itch product.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I filled up with 20 people pretty quickly and realized this schedule was masochistic. The one that stuck with me the longest was my chat with TWTFelipe (Felipe Coimbria). TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. Felipe grew up in Brazil.

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

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According to Guitarist Glenn Frey, “We never broke up, we just took a 14-year vacation.&#. Eventually one of the band mates swallows their pride, picks up the phone and proposes a reunion tour. A similar phenomenon occurs in the startup world, without the drugs or drama endemic in the music industry.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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People get too worked up over the word. I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Perhaps this will trend up massively but historical data doesn’t bode well. Why I believe we’re in a bubble.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

socalTECH

We spoke with Scott about GOGII and textPlus, the shifting mobile market, and also what lessons he's applied to his new startup. We loved the mobile space, and when we sold Jamdat we felt that market was just getting started. We felt there had to be an easier way to reach a broad audience in mobile, so we started looking at messaging.

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