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Startup Location Is Still A Critical Success Factor

Startup Professionals Musings

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. get the attention of the market they choose.

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HOW TO: Connect with Other Entrepreneurs Online

mashable.com

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. EFactor The authors of business networking book The N Factor venture up the alphabet a little bit to bring you the EFactor.

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ProfessorVC: Buyer's Remorse

Professor VC

However, I was glad to see they were able to raise financing and launch the service. Now, back to that house in Mountain View, California. Steve, I was pleasantly surprised to find your blog when researching startup financing. April 25, 2011 11:20 PM. ► 2011. (7). Steve Bennet. at 5:28 PM. Anonymous said.

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ProfessorVC: 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship

Professor VC

As I mentioned in the previous post, Jeff Fluhr (founder of StubHub) recently stopped by my Entrepreneurial Finance class to share his 4 Lessons of Entrepreneurship with the students. He raised less financing than originally planned but was able to launch the site and was running a business by the time his classmates graduated 9 months later.

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ProfessorVC: Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor VC

If you are interested in sponsoring the course, would love to hear from you as being part of a state institution in California provides its own special challenges. ► 2011. (7). Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. What truth?

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2011 Edition

VC Cafe

See the March 2011 edition after the jump. The Tel Aviv center will support Barclay’s international finance operations and expand the British bank’s equities and prime services among others. For previous editions, click here. ISRAELI UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 6.1%.

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