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A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY NOVEMBER 25, 2012 What Has Changed As I read this post in the WSJ about the changing nature of VC funding of consumer web companies , I thought that we may be looking at the symptoms and not the disease. As the WSJ notes, VC funding of consumer web and mobile companies is down 42% in this first nine months of 2012 (vs the first nine months of 2011). lot, actually. | STEVE BLANK NOVEMBER 27, 2012 Open Source Entrepreneurship One of the great things about being a retired entrepreneur is that I get to give back to the community that helped me. assembled this collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier. Free: Startup Tools. customer development. | | | | | | | | | |
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500 HATS | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012 What Hasn't Changed: The Internet Keeps Getting Bigger.
Recent articles by the WSJ , Fred Wilson , & others are noting a shift in investor interest to enterprise and away from consumer. If true, this is a huge error … at least for entrepreneurs, angels, and smaller funds. There is no better time than the present to build cheap & scalable software-based businesses that make money. MORE >> -
ASK THE VC | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012 Is There More Than One Type Of Convertible Debt?
Troy Henikoff and I had lunch a month or so ago in Chicago and the conversation turned to convertible debt. I’d recently made an offer to invest in a company Troy was an investor in and the entrepreneur and I got tangled up in the definition of pre and post money in the context of existing convertible debt. Related articles. MORE >> -
INSTIGATOR BLOG | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012 The Difference Between Stealth Mode and Quiet Mode
A lot of companies still talk about being in stealth mode and aiming for a big hoorah type launch. It doesn’t usually work. Worse still, startups that are in stealth mode rarely talk to customers, prospects, users, partners or anyone else before their big reveal, which means they have little to no validation for what they’re doing. MORE >> -
 10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation
Once you have a potential investor excited about your team, your product, and your company, the investor will inevitably ask “What is your company’s valuation?” Many entrepreneurs stumble at this point, losing the deal or most of their ownership, by having no answer, saying “make me an offer,” or quoting an exorbitant number. Marty Zwilling. MORE >> -
DEAL ARCHITECT | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012 The worlds largest outsourcer you never heard of
Quick, name the outsourcer which comes to market with A $ 140 billion services backlog. relentless focus on guaranteed performance and improved outcomes for customers, not just standard SLAs or fixed price contracts Deep vertical knowledge in oil and MORE >>
- Distill Your Message To as Few Words as Possible FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- Square Puck FOR THE WIN | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012
- Every Entrepreneur Needs to Master Public Speaking STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012
- Cracking the Code: How Successful Entrepreneurs Build High-Growth Companies GROWTHOLOGY | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Are You Using Organic SEO? REMBRANDT WRITES | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- Small Business and Startups: 5 DIY Things To Do For Your Brand! CROWDSPRING BLOG | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012
- 10 Avoidable Mistakes Cause Entrepreneurs Much Pain STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- 7 Traits of Extraordinary Bosses FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- Don't Ever Use Fundraising Advisors BABBLING VC | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- Six Reasons Your Startup WON’T Raise Capital DAVE PARKER | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012
- 5 Military Lessons For Entrepreneurs Raising Money STARTUP PROFESSIONALS MUSINGS | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012
- Envy all the way up GABRIEL WEINBERG | SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012
- Startup Valuations Revisited ITHACAVC | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- Your Idea is “Dead Simple”, Really? DAVE PARKER | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- Jeff Bezos attended 60 investor meetings to raise $1m from 22 people, just to get Amazon started THE NEXT WEB | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr THIS IS GOING TO BE BIG. | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- Some things that make mobile user acquisition difficult THE EQUITY KICKER | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Case-Study: How A Scrappy Bootstrapped Team In The Middle Of Nowhere Used Lean Startup To Achieve Startup Success ASH MAURYA | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
- The Perfectly Optimized Press Release FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- Solving the Pipeline Problem STARTUP LESSONS LEARNED | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Don’t Pass this up: Getting your business on Apple’s Passbook, DIY style THE NEXT WEB | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012
- Can Introverts Be Great Entrepreneurs? FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Cubes Are For Squares: The Startup/Corporate Matrix – Where Do You Fit? YOUNGUPSTARTS | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- Thanks to BitTorrent, The 4-Hour Chef goes from being boycotted by Barnes and Noble to a bestseller THE NEXT WEB | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012
- The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? PANDODAILY.COM | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Big Data: You Have No Idea How Much It Will Change Your Life FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
- 2 Restaurant´s Tricks that Will Boost your Company's Sales DEIMAR | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- 5 Simple Steps for Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization DUCT TAPE MARKETING | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- 10 Ways to Be Smart in Business Discussions TIM BERRY'S BLOG - PLANNING STARTUPS STORIES | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- 5 Things Disruptive Start-ups Do Well FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Thanksgiving Day E-Commerce Traffic: Amazon, Walmart RYAN SPOON | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2012
- How to Get More From Every Piece of Content You Produce DUCT TAPE MARKETING | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
- The Value of Paying Down Technical Debt ONLYONCE | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- Airbnb: Changing Travel as We Know It FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- Kathy Sierra – Building the Minimum Badass User BUSINESS OF SOFTWARE BLOG | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- How to Communicate Your Core Difference DUCT TAPE MARKETING | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
- How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business CROWDSPRING BLOG | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2012
- 8 Things Wrong with Your Google AdWords Campaign FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- The Only Path to Sustainable Growth DUCT TAPE MARKETING | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012
- 10 Proven Methods to Optimize Your Videos for Search BLOGTREPRENEUR | ENTREPRENEUR BLOG | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2012
- 4 Year-End Tax Moves for Investors FRESH INC.: THE STAFF BLOG | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2012
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