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How to Fund a Startup

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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. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though.

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

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JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Microsofts New Enterprise Operating System Is Going To Be A Big Hit. Your Money. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations. The whole point is to provide a fast, easy form of financing that avoids wrestling over valuation. Clusterstock.