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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

The hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Here is just a sampling of the latest terminology and lingo that I gleaned from Dave, and from some additional research on the Internet, that I think every entrepreneur should know, who may be looking for funding now, or down the road: Micro-VCs.

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Startup Runway Length Depends on Your Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Pay people with equity or future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Great strategy.

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Primer On Funding Trends for Early-Stage Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. This is a concept coined (and trademarked) by Eric Ries a couple of years ago, primarily for software and web applications. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone.

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High Burn Rates Result in Short Startup Runways

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Pay people with equity or future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Great strategy.

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Don’t Get Burned By Your Startup Burn Rate

Startup Professionals Musings

The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Pay people with equity or future revenue. There’s tremendous leverage in learning to use Microsoft Office, QuickBooks, and how to Google for sample contracts and the latest tax changes. Great strategy.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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500 Hats , January 10, 2010 Developing new startup ideas - Chris Dixon , March 14, 2010 Batch Processing Millions and Millions of Images - Code as Craft , July 9, 2010 jQuery Plugin: Give Your Characters a NobleCount - The Product Guy , March 23, 2010 How do the sample Series Seed financing documents differ from typical Series A financing documents?

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

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John laid into a well-honed thesis on why the social web needed a “Page Rank” equivalent for people. It is company 500px who has a beautiful product and a burgeoning community on the iPad and web. 10:30 Question from the chat: How do you define the difference between traditional VC and private equity?