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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

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Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Too aggressive about the rate of customer adoption? You might then slow down your burn rate or raise more money. Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

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This past year was also the year that startup boards also got more disciplined about containing burn rates and pushing for companies to be run more pragmatically. So if funding from VCs slowed, valuations dropped and burn rates were slashed, WTF happened to winter again? This chart surprised me the most.

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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

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However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. ► October. (1).