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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Learn how from the experts at PR Newswire. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

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This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. Every conversation about fund raising should start with what your current operational needs are and the stage of your business. They get the PR bump. How long is the window open?

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). Too much PR, too early.