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How to Get Funding from Billionaire Investor Mark Cuban and Other Stories

Up and Running

In case you haven’t heard of the website before, it allows you to register and hire professional consultants with top-tier qualifications, at a fraction of the cost you might otherwise have to pay, and in a fraction of the time. They emailed billionaire investor Mark Cuban, asking him for financing.

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Business Advice Podcasts: Why Every Entrepreneur Should Tune In

Up and Running

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Podcasts, though, don’t cost a dime. Tuning into a business advice podcast is going to cost you absolutely nothing, while still opening yourself to that valuable insight.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

At an accelerator … Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. Truthfully.

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You’re no longer a startup…so now what?

The Next Web

John Marshall began his enterprise-grade mobile device management company, AirWatch , in 2003 as a wireless hotspot management company before providing device management for old-school mobile devices. Your Finances are Different. “Financing can be stressful,” Marshall says.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). All the other stuff Yahoo! If I were involved with Yahoo!’s Whatever few good people are left at Yahoo!

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Ted Rheingold Founded Dogster in 2004: Five Questions About Building a Startup, Selling a Startup and Whether SF Is Still a Good Place

Hunter Walker

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). Early on my original expectation was that, like a social club, Dogster site members should be able to incur all cost of site operations. How did the site come about?

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8 Entrepreneur Share Their Biggest Business Fails and How They Rebounded

Hearpreneur

Hiring inappropriate council constituted a $15k mistake because the incorrect company was formed–costing us time and $15k. From 2003 to 2008, I was the host/DJ/producer of The Groove Boutique, a radio mix show that aired across the United States. 4- Getting comfortable with the numbers and finances. Thanks to Laurence J.