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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Partners in VC funds only wanted to fund entrepreneurs who had a certain percentage of their net worth tied up in their venture. Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. I recently read the book eBoys about the founding of Benchmark Capital and the founding of eBay. That’s hard core. Not my problem.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Java stands alone from the four others.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. This comes only a few weeks after LivingSocial posted 3rd quarter net losses of around $556 million. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.