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The Microsoft Accelerator, round 2!

David Cohen

Most of those companies from the Kinect program are doing great, and many have gone on to raise venture capital or angel financing since the program ended. For a recap of the Kinect focused programs, you can check out the video series “ Kinect Accelerated ” by the always amazing Megan Sweeney.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch

ReadWriteStart

The trends include Cloud computing, outsourcing, social Web, vertical and local Web, smartphones and tablets, online advertising, online video, online gaming, e-books, and bootstrapped entrepreneurship. The company is profitable and has so far raised only $400,000 in friends and family and angel financing.

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The 5 Key Stages of Equity Funding

Growthink Blog

Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. No right or wrong answer here, but if this is your vision then it's important to consider when negotiating deal terms on earlier stage financing rounds. This video explains more.

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Crowdfunding Sites Offer 5 Hidden Benefits

Growthink Blog

The program is a series of videos I recorded that walk you through each of the 14 steps to raising rewards-based Crowdfunding. Raising money from Crowdfunding is so much easier and faster than traditional sources of funding like venture capital and angel financing. Want Crowdfunding for your business?

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. on a global scale.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. – Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School).