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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. I first met Ethan in 2005.

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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom a while back, personal money, or bootstrapping, continues to be the primary startup funding source. Of course, some of you will say, I don’t have a dollar and my big idea can’t wait. Unfortunately, outside investors are not an answer to this problem.

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10 Reasons for a Startup to Skip Outside Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on the latest Startup Environment Index from the Kauffman Foundation and LegalZoom, personal money, or bootstrapping, continued to be the primary startup funding in 2012. Of course, some of you will say, I don’t have a dollar and my big idea can’t wait. Unfortunately, outside investors are not an answer to this problem.

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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For Legalzoom, it's a very different model. She's a great expert, cable quality, and we feature multiple camera angels, visual stills, and of course the talent of the puppy. We're now driving 2 million unique views on USA Today every single month, via the partnership with Demand.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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And of course Foundry Group is the original masters of this with perfectly organized ambassador trips to Boulder. And ensuring we leave with a positive impression. Or great bloggers who spread the word far and wide like Rand Fishkin who you must read here. Joshua Baer & Jason Cohen do this in Austin, Texas.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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We launched Docstore about four or five months ago with a number of premium partners, including LegalZoom, CareerPress, LegalAcreements.com, and others, and now we are opening up the marketplace so that virtually anyone can sell high quality, professional content. It's the eBay of professional documents. The company is going really well.

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The Silent Killer – The Company Your Community Never Created

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Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. And then there is public policy.

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