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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

This is going to be BIG.

You know, because sometimes startups just simply don't make it [shrug] but you gotta watch out for those financial hucksters who are looking to take your money and run off to kick it in Fiji. 25 people I've actually placed at companies as part of a message of how I help startups. I can't tell you about the.

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the world without altgate

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere. 

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$30,191

This is going to be BIG.

That’s how much credit card debt I had when I started at First Round in the Fall of 2009—over thirty grand—residual from when you’re doing a startup and taking just enough to pay for the roof over your head and a few other things, then eating through your bank account and credit line for everything else. Fiji anyone?

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