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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Think Again How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup - Startup Professionals Musings , June 20, 2010 Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 Eight Tips To Successfully Bootstrap Your Business Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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By early 2010, I found my stylistic voice and identified my audience of emerging entrepreneurs and thus dropped my penname. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. 10 Rookie Mistakes You Won’t Make. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. Guy Kawasaki Interview.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. Relationships. So what gives?

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). It’s hard to say.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Why Selling To The Government Can Destroy Your Startup

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Hey, everyone makes a mistake. In 2010, as part of its “Forever” series, the USPS issued a stamp of the statue of liberty. After first denying it had made a mistake, the USPS was sued by the sculpture of the Vegas replica for copyright infringement. In other words, “if we had known it was a mistake, we wouldn’t have done it.”

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). It’s hard to say.

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