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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Venture Capitalists, Super Angels and the State of Startup Funding

mashable.com

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)…

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Any reasonable founder salary I pay myself (I’m ball-parking $70k… maybe a bit less) will already be a higher salary than I’ve ever earned in my life. Early Stage Web Start-Up Seeking Developers. Do you have any idea how sweet that salary will taste to them? I have an idea, trust me.

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“The Core Value of a Good Leader is Humility:” Sam Schillace, Box Engineering SVP

Hunter Walker

I was one of the founders of Upstartle, had the idea and wrote the first version of Writely (I was interested in experimenting with what was then called AJAX and some new browser capabilities around text editing). So I shifted over into some more personal and cultural thoughts, and it just sort of took off from there.

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How to Hire for Sweat Equity…

www.drowningamerican.com

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). I don’t have a technical co-founder on my team but am apt in graphics design and have a lot of ideas bursting out of my head.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution.

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Ask the Experts: Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a Business

Up and Running

It can be tempting to rush through the early stages of the startup process; you might be inclined to hire the first person who comes along , or choose the first storefront location you find that checks most of your boxes. You can’t know everything, and you’re bound to make some mistakes—just perhaps not these ones.

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