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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects?

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I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? That means that less than 1% of the entrepreneurs who apply succeed in getting financed. His firm invests in four.

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10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version)

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Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, the leading startup incubator, and the essays on his blog providethought-leadership on topics as varied as startup funding, marketing, and life lived well. The columnists cover everything from media to finance to advertising to economics and I benefit from them all.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

VC Financings: 1. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. You also might enjoy hearing him talk about his background – including the fact that he was actually the executive assistant for Condoleezza Rice during one of the more historic and controversial periods of time in recent history!

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Health IT ›.

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The Series A Round: “Could A Round By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?”

Haystack

Lots of VC firms will cross-check various databases Crunchbase, Pitchbook, and Mattermark, etc. Historically, startups have by default relied on venture capital as financing source. Bullpen Capital’s Paul Martino does a great job outlining the myriad financing options founders have these days in a post from a few years ago.].

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I listed on many databases – some MBA, some not. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

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6 Ways to Recruit Talent for Startups

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Startups can sign up to have their projects advertised to compatible investors or search through a 20,000-investor database. Go BIG Network This site helps investors, startups, service providers, and advisors find each other. Pros: The site claims to be “the world’s BIGGEST source of small business clients.”

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