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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

Twenty years ago, if you started a brand, your first hire, outside of a designer, would have been a salesperson,” Murthy told TechCrunch. Ghost itself closed on a Series A equity round of $13 million, along with $7 million in debt, in June. The equity will go toward hiring more talent to join Ghost’s 25-person team.

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I'm looking for free (equity only) development, should I contact you? We can likely provide technical strategy help at little to no cost, but hard core development generally requires that you have found someone to do it for you for equity or that you have some capital available (think $50K+). Do I have to write up the overview?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

I'm looking for free (equity only) development, should I contact you? We can likely provide technical strategy help at little to no cost, but hard core development generally requires that you have found someone to do it for you for equity or that you have some capital available (think $50K+). Do I have to write up the overview?

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. Here are a few perspectives on the topic of finding technical cofounders: In Building a sweat equity team , Joel on Software tells us: You simply need to network. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

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How I Promise You One of the Most Meaningful Days of Your Life

Both Sides of the Table

Defy teaches them personal finance like how to keep a checking account, the difference between debt and equity, what cashflow is and so forth. She was smart (she started her career in private equity!) I promised her I would write about this experience for the LinkedIn platform so I didn’t write about yesterday’s trip here.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

Yesterdays’ equity round of $1.6 25 Years of Writing Code. Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. million Raised.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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It’s not that they’re particularly negative but the fact is that supporting roles at investment firms are designed to show the partners the risks in deals and the “upside case” always requires huge assumptions to be believed. He told me to stop responded to RFPs where I wasn’t the person who helped write the specs for the RFPs.

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