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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting.

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Rubicon Projects Hires Investment Banker

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According to Rubicon, Allen & Company will work with the company to "exploring options for ongoing business growth initiatives" including strategic acquisitions, platform expanson, and continued international growth. READ MORE>>.

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers

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Brad Feld in Places to Find Developers in Exchange for Sweat Equity While finding a developer to work for sweat equity is an option, I’d assert that you’d be better served by hunting for a technical co-founder that is passionate about creating the company you envision.

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What is it Like to Negotiate a VC Round?

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The truth is that I’ve been warning about convertible notes since 2010 it was first declared that “convertible notes have won.” This was until about 2009 because most the investments in companies came from one, maybe two, sources. How much is in the option pool? Why do investors care about this?

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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-Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Metrics: 50mm users (up from 40mm in Dec 2009), -Competition includes: Spotify , Last.fm. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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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. For instance, What Are My Options Worth? was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. What Are My Options Worth? Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011.

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Google Maps Mobile

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My only minor complaint is that it doesnt have a menu option to disconnect the phone from the data connection. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. It includes traffic! If you havent checked it out, its pretty amazing.

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