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Interview With Startup Boost, Matt Stodder and Blake Caldwell

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Most of our mentors are people who have been successful entrepreneurs and investors, who have been there, and understand how to get a company to the next sage. other companies, which are already off and running are ready for aceclerators and seed funding. Blake Caldwell: We believe heavily in customer in customer development.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. The expanding pool of angel, seed, and super seed funds is another. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved.

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