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How Chat Bots Can Help You Grow Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Andrew Warner, founder of Mixergy , a program that interviews experts to help you grow your business. Warner was one of the pioneers of the internet startup scene — starting online in 1997 and growing his business into a multi-million dollar venture.

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Startups Wait For the ‘Super Angels’ to Descend

Startup Professionals Musings

Venture capital dispensed quarterly to startups continues to decline, down to about $3 billion in the first quarter, which is the lowest level since 1997. Due to the economy as well, traditional individual angel investors haven’t been able to fill the gap. New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. Marty Zwilling.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

Seeing Both Sides

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. As anyone who has met him can tell you, Jonathan Bush is a unique founder/CEO.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. BoxGroup is an investor in companies like Boxee, Flavors.me, Goodsie, fab.com, art.sy, Coursekit, Skillshare, GroupMe, DataMinr and many more.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. Edward’s University.