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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. About 18 months ago in early 2008 we hired an analyst (pre-MBA), but wanted to wait until after Summer to hire a post-MBA associate. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? Not my problem.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. The very modest salary that I drew didn’t come anywhere near meeting my monthly costs so I had to eat into savings.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). Why would one chose to develop with a particular framework over any other?

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Old media’s problems are the costs not the lack of paywalls. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.