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Founders Must Keep Their Startup Culture Positive

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup work environments are always chaos, but they can still be great environments to work in, or they can be terrible. Whether yours is terrible or great, that same tone flows out to your customers, and regulates your productivity inside. You as the founder are the starting point and definer, so you need to get it right. What does it take to create a positive workplace culture?

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More Innovation

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On the New Florence blog Nice touches at Descartes Evolution Dropbox – a feature for 100 million users Who are you? My heroes have always been operational folks Meet the new hacker dude: Bond’s Q Israel’s “Iron Dome” Smart LIFX.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

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SeriesSeed.com. Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Home. Documents. Blog Archives. Subscribe. « Step 2 (as opposed to version 1.1) | Main. 09/02/2010. Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes. “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi. I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment

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[Review] Going Social

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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from reading books on social media, it’s that there’s already a very significant shift in the mindsets of businesses towards the acceptance of using social media as a tool to engaging consumers. Indeed, tomes on social media marketing used to devote massive chapters trying to convince companies large and small to adopt the then-new marketing platforms.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Series Seed Financing Documents

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SeriesSeed.com. Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Home. Documents. Blog Archives. Subscribe. « About the Series Seed Documents | Main. | Step 2 (as opposed to version 1.1) » 02/25/2010. Series Seed Financing Documents. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.  Series Seed COI (v 2.0). Series Seed IRA (v 2.0).

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Building a Startup is Navigating an Obstacle Course

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Image via Facebook. It would be no fun if starting a business was simply plotting a straight line between your idea and success, with no challenges along the way. Zigging and zagging amongst the obstacles is the fun part of being an entrepreneur, and it’s what sets you apart from the average worker who knows exactly what he or she has to do every day to get paid.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1

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Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. SPONSORED BY. Products. Archives. @venturehacks. Books. AngelList. About. RSS. ← Trust, but verify: Why investors want control. T-Shirts for VCs → -->. Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1. by Nivi on January 31st, 2008. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about advisors.

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Inappropriate Fearmongering About Marijuana by Bruce Benson – CU President

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge supporter of CU and CU Boulder in particular. While it’s not my alma mater, I’ve probably contributed as much or more time and money as I have to MIT, where I spent seven years. Amy and I strongly support three institutions of higher education – MIT, Wellesley (where she went to school), and CU Boulder. I was shocked and stunned to get an email from the CU President Bruce Benson yesterday.

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Using warrants to pump up your VC valuation

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Home About Matt Client references Contact. A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. How to pump up your VC valuation. Matt Bartus — February 9, 2010. — 23 Comments. If you are a company that is fundraising, keep in mind that there are a few different levers you can pull to change the amount of dilution that the founders will experience.

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10 Things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Standup Comics

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Great entrepreneurs are great observers. They carefully monitor the competition, the market, their team, and their various stakeholders. Great entrepreneurs learn from the world around them and they never, ever stop learning. This is the latest in a series of posts, musing on what we can learn from the most unexpected of sources. Sure we can learn from our business mentors, our college professors, even from our co-workers and employees.

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Cutting Up the Founder’s Pie

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