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8 Steps To Starting A New Venture With Limited Funds

Startup Professionals Musings

In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far. Even the homework is easier, with free and mobile access through the Internet to more business assistance sources, opportunity data, investors, and competitor details around the world. Prepare a pitch deck to document and share your plan.

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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

The Next Web

We receive about one business plan a day, and the Silicon Valley VCs at least 10 times more, so I am pretty sure we face a similar issue: too many business plans, too little time to respond. Yes, it is true that some entrepreneurs either don’t receive a response or get a pre-made template.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. For example, Yale could launch a center focused on applying political science thinking to the governance of major internet businesses (e.g., I wrote a blog post on this.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. Reply Quora , on March 12, 2011 at 12:54 am said: What are the free software tools and online services one should leverage for an internet start-up just getting started from an idea?… Thanks for your work.