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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

- Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. Not that it’s always a bad thing.

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Why “Luck” is a Terrible Marketing Plan for Your Startup.

Software By Rob

I’ve heard for years about the importance of finding a market before building a software product. I would think, “How can you find a market for something before you build it?&# You can sell garbage to a hungry market and make money. In these cases, the market doesn’t matter because luck trumps everything.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Building a sweat equity team

discuss.joelonsoftware.com

After 14 years of trying to do most of it myself, Im ready to build a team, and aggressively build market share in a niche that I believe my competitors have neglected. In particular, I want to bring on a full-time marketing person, and a full-time developer. 2- You could also look at setting up an affiliate marketing program.

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How I Started, Grew & Sold An E-commerce Business For Quarter Million Dollars ($250,000)

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In this post, I want to lay out the details involved in how I first realized the opportunity, the formation of the business idea, the search for my supplier, the establishment and growth of the business, problems encountered and lessons learned, as well as the exit strategy that resulted in the $250,000 sale of the business.

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Entrepreneurs, not the government, will save Europe’s economy

The Next Web

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. Large companies also provide an important ‘exit strategy’ for startups.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival. The situation becomes even worse if there is no marketing plan or budget. Look at the market size and the number of competing products.