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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? It may be the right answer for you.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

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Rejecting the paint-by-numbers approach to corporate communications deployed by most marketing executives, Brad has embraced unconventional guerilla marketing tactics to help establish his venture capital firm, Foundry Group, as a thought leader in early-stage tech investing. companies should… focus on building amazing products.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. Talking about whether to raise more money or not, their VC allegedly said to them: “If you had more capital, could you get to the future faster? The former was outsourced, the latter was our own team. It takes options off of the table.

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

SoCal CTO

I'm Tired of Creating Your Content - Babbling VC , November 12, 2010 Jeff triggered this post in regards to his Check-in Fatigue on Foursquare. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." have focused this as advice to entrepreneurs building enterprise software ventures today. By doing the job.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

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. - First Principles.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Cyrus Farudi – Co-founder of Capsule. Bridget Hilton – Founder of Jack’s Soap. ” Court also likes the Red Sox.