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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts

Startup Professionals Musings

Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business.

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Startup Children – How To Parent An Entrepreneur (Part IV) - Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

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Amarillo’s advice is consistent with my comments in the Startup Competition ; get to know your competitors on a personal basis, while appearing as innocuous as possible. Be vigilant and keep your eyes on your competition, especially when they are dealt their hands. The same is true with poker. Be like Huck.

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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. Online travel guide that is served up in-stream with restricted data size in the same was as Twitter. -

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Finding Startup Developers - First Email Contact

SoCal CTO

That post and How to Find Programmers for You Startup - a Field Guide both lay out a lot of the tactics that will prepare a founder for important early conversations. The way they expressed it "technical co-founder" is code for find someone who will work as an Equity Only Developer. That's not going to be a successful outreach.

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5 Ways Crowdfunding Is Not A Panacea For New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

I refer back to the classic book, “ A Crowdfunder’s Strategy Guide ,” by Jamey Stegmaier, one of the biggest thought leaders on crowdfunding, and who has also run several successful Kickstarter projects, that together have raised many millions of dollars. We still have no experience on how well this will work.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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We also know we''re not a startup, and don''t have equity to offer. On the other side, we had incredible high ranking search results when we were baked off against the competition. darren clark interview yelllopages technical team software directory guide' We''ve been very aggressive on the technology front. READ MORE>>.

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6 Key Leaders Every Technical Startup Needs To Thrive

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus I was happily surprised when I found the classic book, “ The Tech Entrepreneur’s Survival Guide ,” by Bernd Schoner, PhD, and cofounder of ThingMagic, which leans heavily on the people side of the equation. Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. The industry veteran.