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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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Your historical trading information including financials and a “customer file” which shows the history of your transactions so that investors can run “cohort” analyses Customer reference, personal references, key team members, compensation, cap table, stock option plan, etc. They aren’t doing this viciously?—?they

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

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Christensen, “We subsidize their education in fields for which there are no jobs” he said in referring to the fact that many courses at universities are still taught with skills that aren’t relevant to the 21st century needs of the US workforce. “Online education is truly going to kill us.” Freemium.

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Interview with Wil Schroter, Fundable

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If you're a startup business owner, how do you get to the next step, and build your first product? That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. What's Fundable?

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DataSift Announces Mega-Round. Apple Buys Topsy for $200 Million. Here’s What You Need to Know

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Some startups I talk with mistakenly believe you can poll the Twitter API directly to get the feed but the Twitter API isn’t full fidelity, doesn’t have the full historical data corpus and isn’t real time. and so on and we do private implementations with the likes of Yammer and others. Asymmetric. Location Aware.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

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[if you're not old enough to get the reference between this image and the title you can click on the image for a prompter]. I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. We know prices of deals, compensation, who’s doing well / poorly, etc.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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If you don’t follow the image reference above or the tag line, “ You don’t need double talk; you need Bob Loblaw “ (try saying it out loud) , and if you care! You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. the link is here. Shame about that pesky FAS 157 ruling.

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Should Your Startup Give Performance-Based Warrants?

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As startup entrepreneurs we all want to work with them because having their name as reference clients makes it so much easier for marketing, PR, selling to other customers, fund raising and even recruiting. I’ve already made clear that I think raising equity from “strategic money&# is an oxymoron.

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