Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 6, 2015
If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. Startup Lessons'
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Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2010
By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. Tags: entrepreneurs incubators relationships startups. Relationships , I said back then.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Want to start a startup? 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. A startup that does all three willprobably succeed.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. I believe this is wrong. Let me start with a couple of stories. Fast forward to my second company.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Want to start a startup? 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. Few startups get it quite right. Apply for funding by March 3.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.
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