Engineer Naming Seed Money Startup 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 25, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I told the CEO, “I have the luxury of not knowing the name of the VC you’re talking to so I won’t sound biased. I told the CEO, “I have the luxury of not knowing the name of the VC you’re talking to so I won’t sound biased.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
Want to start a startup? You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2013
For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. I’m supposed to believe that my best innovation can only come from scores of startup founders who just made millions and have now become CVOs at my company?
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. Once you take money from the generalpublic youre more restricted in what you can do. [
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AUGUST 1, 2008
Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Now as well as being produced by startups, this pattern is happening to startups. Its so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. Plus in a startup you could make much more money.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 18, 2014
Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Despite earning Oprah money and minting more than 150 millionaires with six successful exits, including Splunk, currently valued at more than $5 billion, Baum has yet to retire. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs.
readwrite.com
DECEMBER 3, 2012
Share on: Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money. Lets All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Cant Raise Any More Money. Well, nobody wants to give those dopes any more money. Because blogs are venture-funded startups. posted 5 hours ago. Like on Facebook.
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