www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Follow Entrepreneur on Facebook Follow Entrepreneur on Twitter Follow Entrepreneur on LinkedIn Subscribe | Mobile. Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. RSS Feed 614,263+ Subscribers. Today in Mobile. Mobile Lists. Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! Follow @mashable. More subscription options » Mashable News In Your Inbox. Top Stories. All Stories.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

He covers startups, music, social, mobile, health, and education. Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In other words, angel investors and early stage venture capital (VC) firms will have different expectations than late stage VC firms. For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. Also make sure to research which type of investors fit your business. Give it some thought!

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings. Have an account?

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund will invest $50,000-$100,000 in early-stage startups, through standard convertible notes (loans that convert to equity at Microsoft’s option). Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M Mobile Jetpac pulls in $2.4M MobileBeat. Singularity University. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs. May 12th - 14th, 2011.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

In December, AngelList , a service that matches early-stage startups with investors, debuted the ability to allow accredited investors to actually invest in startups on the platform with as little as $1,000. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt NY. After Raising $6.7M → Learn More.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. RSS Feed 550,078+ Subscribers. Today in Mobile. Mobile Lists. Therefore, marketing and public relations are often tackled piecemeal by whomever has time. Follow @mashable. Top Stories. All Stories. Jobs Lists.

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siliconflorist.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Subscribe via RSS population: Blog. 13) Portland startups at an “Early Stage”: Start-Ups: Silicon Valley, it ain’t (and that’s awesome) (0). Project Coordinator at Mobile Agency. More local links » Follow me on… RSS. Subscribe to the full RSS feed by email. 3 Comments.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Twilio : Need to call/txt get a phone number from your web/mobile application? Mobile Ap Creator create quick mobile apps.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

First, the valuation of early-stage startups remains frothy and fraught with uncertainty. While all Google Ventures partners make some seed investments, the firm recently hired Digg founder Kevin Rose as a partner ; Rose focuses on early-stage and seed investments, drawing on his extensive experience as an angel investor.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. These days sales, marketing and PR people seem to grow on trees. Ycombinator © 2010 Social Matchbox, - WordPress Themes by DBT.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. She has consulted for a number of startups in the mobile, Saas, and consumer health spaces. Subscribe via RSS. HTML5 Mobile App Hackathon. Guest blog post?

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

You can also subscribe by RSS or email below, and youll get updates when things start back up again. How long will the “seed stage bubble” last? My theory is, we’re currently in a golden age for early stage startups, and the early stage market will stay hot for at least the next 3-5 years.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post.

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www.startupnorth.ca

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But for every founder, there is an early employee that takes near equal risks in joining an early-stage company. Remember the goal is to incent early employees to have an emotional ownership of the product and company they are building. Darmesh Shah has a great list of insights for employees joining early stage companies.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.).

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too. Posted by: Jackie | September 10, 2007 12:27 PM @Matt (#20): That makes sense. Having total ownership and intimate knowledge of the spec.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many projects fail because clients dont communicate the specs during the early stages. I myself have worked for a few overseas projects ( as a programmer ) so I can relate to the need for better documentation and communication from the clients side. This will result ( most likely ) result in a bad designed system.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

VFAs tagline is "Mobilizing graduates as entrepreneurs" and is "A program for young, talented grads to spend 2 years in the trenches of a start-up with the goal that these graduates will become socialized and mobilized as entrepreneurs moving forward." The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong.

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sharkseo.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

RSS Feed 19 Nov 2010, Posted by admin in Featured , Nohat , 26 Comments SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups SEO can provide a hugely valuable source of traffic, if done right – especially for a bootstrapped startup where money is tight. [link] Home Archives Search Game Who Is Shark SEO? Im sure they wont mind.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In 1M/1M, I teach the EJ Methodology which is based on my Entrepreneur Journeys research, and emphasize bootstrapping, idea validation, and crisp positioning as some of the core principles of building strong fundamentals in early stage ventures. You can pitch to be featured on my blog following these instructions.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Advice for Startups Entering the Mobile Sector Inside the Mind of an Early Stage Venture Capitalist Need Startup Office Space? Use Google Analytics to understand and track traffic sources and entrance and exit paths. Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared!

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.

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