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The Series A Crunch Is For Entrepreneurs Who Can’t Create Their Own Luck

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Their demise, albeit painful in the short term, frees the employees (and in some cases the underlying technology) to pursue more productive opportunities. Fortunately, there is a key difference between startups and baby turtles: entrepreneurs can make their own luck. There are no villains in the current Series A drama. Share and Enjoy.

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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

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Most sophisticated investors ignore them, focusing their attention on an entrepreneur's pitch and presentation materials, financial forecast and executive summary. As noted in Entrepreneurs Shouldn't Pitch Their Ideas To Venture Capitalists , most sophisticated investors place their bets on people rather than opportunities.

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How This Startup Kicked Oracle’s A$$

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On the following Monday, Marten was besieged by the tech press. Alluding to the company's dolphin logo, Marten told the press, "'Trying to kill MySQL by buying InnoDB is like trying to kill a dolphin by drinking the ocean.' In my humble opinion, this is advice young entrepreneurs cannot hear often enough. And Give Them A Prize.

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Olympic Lessons for Startup Life

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Thirty years later, the business world is celebrating his life’s work and thanking him for forever changing the way people view technology. Michael Phelps knows all about this one: he got as much press for partying at U of Michigan as he did for one of the greatest athletic performances of all time. Because he dared to do it.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Star Trek Contest.

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Advice for CTO Founders: Don't Let Business Kill the Business

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Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. Main February 23, 2010 Advice for CTO Founders: Dont Let Business Kill the Business Founding a technology company is an amazing thing.