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Budding entrepreneurs receive a head start with startup education scholarships

NZ Entrepreneur

Douché, herself an experienced business founder and startup mentor before joining Callaghan Innovation, shed light on the educational challenges faced by early stage entrepreneurs.

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Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More - Ten Recent Great Startup Posts

SoCal CTO

And while I’m at it, a great post by Steve Blank No Accounting For Startups looking at early stage score keeping. Do I Need a Co-Founder: The 90/50 Rule of Startup Founders - FairSoftware's Blog , February 1, 2010 Another post that relates to my recent post on CTO Founders and Cofounders.

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Am I a Founder? The Adventure of a Lifetime. « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Passionate – is the company/product/customers the most important thing in your life? And I remind them that they should be bringing some type of domain expertise (technical or business) to the table. Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

I care because by funding a product, you are giving voice to the idea that yes, it probably is necessary—and if we continue to ignore the contributions of women to the entrepreneurial space, we’re essentially concluding that their ideas hold less value. An incompatibility of product with venture capitalist.

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Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

www.startuplessonslearned.com

With their confidence in their startup and themselves, their passion for their work and their mission, and their desire not to harm the fragile dynamic within the nascent founding team, cofounders tend to plan for the best that can happen. They assume that their skills will remain as valuable to the startup as they are right now.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. The question is: how should they be compensated when cofounding a company? equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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Reducing the risk factors: Why first time founders should join an accelerator program

The Next Web

Ohad Frankfurt is the cofounder and CEO of Swayy , a personalized content curation and management platform. At the time, we started working on a product called Summer , a browser extension which lets you get more information about people you read about online (think of it as “ Rapportive ” for the entire Web). International mentors.