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

Steve Blank

Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. The Adventure of a Lifetime. You may be wearing multiple hats in one-day.)

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Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Google's Money

www.businessinsider.com

Google Ventures has made more than 100 seed investments, Maris said, including some past and present Y Combinator companies, and is making one to two new ones a week. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!” link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

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