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From “Good Idea” to Funded Tech Startup: Building Hallspot

Up and Running

He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

I blogged about, commented about, and eventually bumped into a fellow web programming who loved the idea and ran with it (Tyler Gillies). Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? Dividing equity between founders » Home. startupcto

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. And I’ve just completed my first seed deal of Ad.ly ($500k) with another exciting deal I hope to announce within 30 days. What gives?

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends.