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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We were it in Europe: B2B. Don’t drink it.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. Deutschland.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. I had just moved back to the US from living in Europe for 11 years. We had never purchased a house in Europe because we always knew we’d move home at some point. Fast forward to my second company.

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Splunk Founder Now Launches Entrepreneurs, Not Startups

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Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. I started Founder.org in 2012.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

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New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. In fact, only 13% of VCs investing in the US are based in NYC.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. In the early days of venture capital, when money was scarce, entrepreneurs often gave up control of their company in exchange for their first investment funds. Customer Center.