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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Silverton Partners Plans to Raise $100 Million Venture Capital Fund

SiliconHills

Silverton Partners, a venture capital firm founded in 2005, is raising a $100 million Silverton Partners V fund, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Austin-based venture capital firm lists Adam Chibib, Michael Dodd, Morgan Flagler and Kip McClanahan as its general partners.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Marketing with long payback is precisely what requires venture capital. But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Our portfolio company Ring had a new “security doorbell” which is truly a new market. That’s why Ring is amongst the fastest growing company in our portfolio.

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4 Reasons You Might Not Want to Be VC Funded

Up and Running

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. Think twice: If you’re looking for money, get a loan. You don’t need funding.

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Here are More Signs that LA Tech is Moving to the Next Level

Both Sides of the Table

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. Cooley is taking on major costs not only of these professionals and the inevitable support staff that they will hire but they will also be establishing a major presence in Santa Monica where I’m told they’ve secured significant office space.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Startup Executive Compensation Scorecard

Altgate

And (obviously) only the person who entered the data can see their own Scorecard…we take data security very seriously with the survey. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Management , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged bonus , compensation , compstudy , equity , founder , pay , salary , startup.

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Bitesize Monday: Qlik, Persay, Clickfox

VC Cafe

O ur prayers this week go to the families of the 41 victims who died in the Carmel fire this holiday… ClickFox Secures $18 Million in Series C Funding from Morgan Stanley. Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc. JVP initially invested less than $10 million in Qlik in 2005.

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