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When should you go for equity financing?

Berkonomics

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. Here is a class of investor we’ve covered before, one usually focused upon you and less upon your business case. This class of investor typically writes checks from $50,000 to $250,000. Accelerators.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

Both Sides of the Table

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. I’m investing in businesses that reinvent education. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Ryan wants to reinvent education. I’m investing heavily in Internet video.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Interesting patterns emerged: Everyone makes the same classes of error. recently did a lecture at a Babson MBA summer class on Entrepreneurial Leadership.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

Both Sides of the Table

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Background: Joel Spolsky studied Computer Science at Yale University (class of 1991). But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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Why We Can’t Let Luddites Ruin Global Trade

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a term most of you know as being somebody who is backward or uninterested in learning new technology. You can imagine that if you had spent a lifetime gaining a vocational skill and being a member of a protected industry guild that you wouldn’t be happy with technological change. Actually, the Luddites were worse than this.

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