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APRIL 28, 2010
November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. 6 ]Ive omitted one source: government grants. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3.
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OCTOBER 23, 2010
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. Ididnt realize that when we were raising money. Want to start a startup?
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