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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Equally, hoping to unseat TripAdvisor without understand their SEO strengths and how much it would cost to knock them down would be naïve. Market Structure.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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. - We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. We spoke briefly about why. Short answer: no.