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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. They are engaged in a beautiful dialog about market adoption and why they have problems managing their documents since they store everything in Outlook. I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Is This Startup Ready For Investment?

Steve Blank

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Kayserian believes they will. All Rights Reserved. startupcto

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Debt Financing For Your Business: An Interview with Scott Jordan

Growthink Blog

All Credit Lending Solutions was formed in 2005 to help small business owners in obtaining commercial financing from banks and other alternative lenders and can be found online at yourbusinessloannow.com. To begin, Scott mentioned that building your credit score is key to getting debt financing for your business.

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

www.businessinsider.com

Document Center. Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation. Finance Jobs. Startup Document Center.

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

Agile VC

You can read the whole complaint in the embedded document here (from AllThingsD’s coverage). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed. I’m not a lawyer so I can’t provide a deep analysis of Yahoo!’s Regarding social networking, Yahoo!

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

Don’t make it sound like a form letter, however, but have your reply and supporting documents ready to go. Money and Finance Lists. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Ready a form letter to personalize and send. Holiday Lists.