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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Most of this advice boils down to an argument in favor of basic planning before starting a company or raising money. In many ways the fact that it has become so cheap to start a company and relatively cheap to raise angel/seed money that we as an industry have gotten lazy on basic planning. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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How to Start a Startup

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March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels."

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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Update: Part 2: Finding Your Co-Founders CrunchBase Information Seth Sternberg meebo Information provided by CrunchBase Tweet Next Post Previous Post Advertisement Now Commented Facebook Goodbye, MacBook Pro. For both companies, the initial traction enabled raising seed money to get them to a traditional VC investment.)

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

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Advertising. These Spooky Cinemagraphs Will Radically Change Online Advertising. Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Y Combinator is a startup funding firm that was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham.