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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Franchises.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Consumer approach to software for business users. Web service architecture that provides a content management platform for the Internet.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Sundance and a movie about a web pioneer you may have never heard of

BeyondVC

Josh started Jupiter Communications which during the mid-90s was the go-to research firm for market growth numbers for every startup business plan.    As a VC, you couldn't believe them, but it didn't stop every entrepreneur from using the hockey stick projections in their business plans

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BlogFrog – From Blogs To Communities

YoungUpstarts

The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur. Rustin Banks is today the CEO of BlogFrog , a web-based platform that turns blogs into interest-based communities.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.