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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

And the same thing happened after we sold IT WatchDogs in 2005. After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. If you know you’re building a flash-in-the-pan, like a cool mobile app, than that’s fun too of course! Growth is necessary, but not sufficient.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. Private, flash sales site focused on apparel goods (women, men and children). Our guest was Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital. TechCrunch article.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Updated Business tools for Startups. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. model legal documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Argonaut Private Equity. Seed Startups.