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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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According to Marten, it was a demoralizing blow that would have spooked the investors, if MySQL had acquiesced to the US company's demands. They all invested. We took an investment of 2M Euros. You can start the day demanding a lot from yourself, but you must end the day being nice to yourself. You must not pull out now.

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Extracting More Than Cash From Your Angel Investors

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In order to extract value beyond your Angel investors' cash, you must first assess three important parameters: (i) the relative strength of their personal brand, (ii) their ability to add operational value, and (iii) the amount of care and feeding they will demand from you. Yep, Sounds Good. If the pitch sounds good, they are "in."

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7 Business Mistakes Serial Entrepreneurs Never Make (Twice)

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Fallacy: Startup ventures tend to evolve, especially after you begin speaking with pesky customers and demanding partners. In addition to paying the consultant, you must invest time to educate them. Rationale: My idea is so mind-blowingly fantastic that I must immediately spend some of my precious capital to protect it.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

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Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria. You may gain an investment in the short term with disingenuous responses. Image courtesy of The Lolbrary.

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Recruit Cal Ripken, Not Reggie Jackson, To Your Startup

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Temperamental Superstars – These individuals episodically perform at a high level, yet they constantly demand a high level of managerial attention to assuage and reassure their oversized egos. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • EmailRSS.

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Five Trick Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer Before Asking For Money

InfoChachkie

Consider the situation in which the entrepreneur wants to accept a financially life-changing offer to sell her company which is vetoed by the investor because the price does not meet its minimal investment return criteria. You may gain an investment in the short term with disingenuous responses. Image courtesy of The Lolbrary.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0