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Should Startups Announce Their Funding?

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Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. I will add to this as I write more in the coming weeks on the topic. Is Funding a Worthy Announcement? The short answer is yes, absolutely.

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Layoffs Hot Keyword for Second Half of January 2009

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This hot list is based on various social signals of what people are writing about, reading, bookmarking, searching, etc. But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times. You can go to the Hot List post to see what was hot then.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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Either downside scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) Yes, the VC industry was over funded and too many non value-add people entered the industry.

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A Post Startup Execs Should Forward to Your Spouse or Partner. 12 Tips for Making it Work

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Mark granted me read/write access to his calendaring system. ” That way you aren’t hitting him up on an important topic when he might be stressed out about company layoffs, fund raising or some other major stress at work. But I’m sure many would apply if the situation were reversed.

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Interview with Minnie Ingersoll, TenOneTen Ventures

socalTECH

We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. We had to do a reduction-in-force and layoff early in our career, and I thought we were done. What does TenOneTen Ventures invest in? Minnie Ingersoll: We do early stage investing. That's not any one thing. We had ups and down.

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Interview with Josh Stomel, ResumeBucket

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We've used the profits from NeoHire for funding. It's not just that a consumer can get their resume online, and have a url to share with them--for a startup company, and with the economy right now, they don't have funds to pay for recruiting agencies, they don't have funds to pay for Monster, Hotjobs, or Careerbuilder.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

Both Sides of the Table

Either scenario requires angel deals to be funded further. In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!)

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