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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. In response he sent me a competitive analysis. There are MANY of them.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

Venture Capital funds: the different between “closed funds&# (which typically have a 10-year time horizon) and “evergreen funds&# which re-invest profits back into the fund. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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Interview with Scott Sangster, Tech Coast Angels

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We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Those are fundamentals that don't change.

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Startups With Real Revenue Can Get Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. In fact, most of the most active investment firms are located there, although NY now has moved solidly into second place (ahead of Boston). Overall, investors put $7.5

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8 Intellectual Property Items Every Startup Needs

Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Still, it is recommended that you add the familiar ©Copyright 2010 symbol at the beginning or end of each media and document segment. You need all these before you start looking for funding.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: So, you need to develop a product?

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! ► October (1) New Video! . ► October (1) New Video! the Rubicon Project's Secret to Succes.

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Social Media Accounts are Intellectual Property

Startup Professionals Musings

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. Still, it is recommended that you add the familiar ©Copyright 2010 symbol at the beginning or end of each media and document segment. You need all these before you start looking for funding.