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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”. Developer.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. He wanted to build direct customer relationships to get product feedback but only 2% of customers would ever return their registration cards. We talked about patents.

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Why The ‘Fail Fast’ Mantra Needs to Fail

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The problem is that when you brand something that will be interpreting differently by people who weren’t part of the zeitgeist when the memo went out about what “fail fast&# meant then we educate the next generation of entrepreneurs to do things the wrong way. And they’ve invested their time and trust in you.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. How to be a successful iPhone developer - 47 Hats , July 20, 2010 I came across this YouTube video of Brian Greenstone from Pangea Software talking about how his company made $1.5 Customer Care Today. at a $2.5M

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