mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To be clear, these are hires we are talking about, not co-founders. Co-founders are an entirely different discussion and I am not talking about them in this post. This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. RSS Twitter Tumblr. follow via: twitter / rss. design by UX Hero. -->.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topics are divided into IT, marketing, sales, finance, customer service, operations and human resources sections, which makes it easy to search for the latest discussions on your interest area. This feature makes it more likely that you’ll receive prompt and useful responses. These sites and specific towards entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

What makes an individual a great startup founder (versus an employee) has been something I had been thinking about since I retired. A Day in the Life of A Founder For those of you who’ve never started a company, let me assure you that it never happens like the pleasant articles you read in business magazines or in case studies.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

Nellie Akalp is the CEO & Co-Founder of CorpNet , her second incorporation filing service company based on the simple philosophy of truth in business and her strong passion to assist small business owners and entrepreneurs. Here' the article: [link] Seriously, thanks. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

I asked a panel of successful young entrepreneurs what fledging tech startups should be looking for in a CTO hire to ensure founders get the right person for the job. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Similarly, Keyis Ng, CEO and co-founder of Cafebond.com, an online coffee retailer and subscription service, emphasized the value of understanding your customers: “Watch how they interact with your product – even the smallest changes should make you innovate and adapt.”. Have a target market and be consistent in your approach towards it.”.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Work from Anywhere: 9 Handy Portable Offices 2 10 Wonderful Wildlife iPhone Photographs 3 35 Entertaining 404 Error Pages 4 5 Ways to Get a Job Through YouTube 5 Citibank First to Test Revolutionary Credit Car. Why didn't I think of that idea?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

in case you are wondering: www.dreamstaffing.com blog comments powered by Disqus More Subscription Options » Twitter RSS Top 6 Today 1 Today's Big Rumor: Google Buys Groupon for $2.5. MapQuest Founder on the Past, Present. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N. Bush Talks "the Facebook" a.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. The fact is the technical co-founder will be doing more work at the start. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

Ive done a lot of placing people into positions, and I have never used a job board as a way to do that," says Rich Sloan , co-founder of StartupNation. Every type of business has their own meetings," says Martin Zwilling , founder and CEO of consulting group Startup Professionals. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. Was looking for something like this. thank you Edouard Reinach kodak is not a word made from nothing. the guy who built the kodak compagny is Eastman Kodak. He invented the name Kodak. I want my childhood back.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. On its website , the firm says, “We track everything from financing details, investors, board members, and management, to industry segments, business stages and exits.” Subscribe for Free.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Extra credit if you know the back-story of slide 1 and why it’s appropriate for founders and their team. For example, our company finances renewable energy installations (solar, fuel cell, etc.) The video below was my presentation to the group. sgblank Lean Startup Cirle 111909 This movie requires Adobe Flash for playback.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. Matt is a lawyer representing technology companies through all phases of their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation, seed & VC financings, exit transactions and IPOs (read more). A View from the Valley. Blog blog archive.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 8, 2013

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. “Be careful not to have too many co-founders; it’s the most expensive dilution you’ll ever face.” Seed Finance Survey 2012 (via Fenwick) [link]. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here.

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www.copelandfirm.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Fee Arrangements Location Referrals Testimonials Business Law HUB Certification Mergers & Acquisitions Startup Advice Intellectual Property Copyrights Trademarks Securities Law Debt and Bridge Financing Series A Startup Law Entity Formation Corporation LLC Series LLC RSS Founders Shares: How do you split them up?

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder – a software engineer who works for no cash – to help me build my dream website. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sloan kept the corporate staff small and focused on policymaking, corporate finance and planning. The founder of what became General Motors was William (Billy) Durant. Billy Durant - Founder General Motors More in the next posts. Sloan had each of the divisions start systematic strategic planning. What happened to him?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Seed and Follow-on Financing – How do your finance it? Filed under: Customer Development , Technology , Vertical Markets « Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making Am I a Founder? Time to Market – How long? Product Development – How do you engineer it? Waterfall, Agile, Lean? Manufacturing – How do you build it?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

was a great outcome for the company (kudos to Josh James, their visionary founder & CEO!) Add RSS feed. Yahoo Finance. The acquisition of Omniture by Adobe for $1.8B and the second SaaS public transaction in history behind the acquisition of Webex by Cisco in 2007 for $3.2B. No comments: Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

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Scott Edward Walker

MAY 21, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. ” - @claychristensen [link] Blog-Related In case you missed it, I just uploaded my TechCrunch post — Convertible Note Seed Financings: Founders Beware! .”

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets In case you missed it, here’s my TechCrunch post on convertible note seed financings: [link] I love partnering with This Week in Startups.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Best of luck to you in your startup venture. May you have great success!

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. » More. Loading… Markets. » More.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Finance Geek » Mistakes that startups make. [.] link] Finance Geek » How To Develop New Startup Ideas. [.] Dividing equity between founders » Home. cdixon.org - chris dixons blog. Follow @cdixon. cdixon.org contents. Twitter: @cdixon. My posterous blog. Twitter predictor game. My Hunch Recommendations. Eric Paley.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 23, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. You can start by examining every aspect of the co-founder relationship.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Application programming Expertise: PHP, ColdFusion, AJAX, Web Services (RSS, REST, SOAP, XML-RPC, etc.). I don’t have a technical co-founder on my team but am apt in graphics design and have a lot of ideas bursting out of my head. To get traction, won’t I need the finances to market it?

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 4, 2012

If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. ” [link] “We’re seeing résumés from people in finance all the time, & that’s awesome. ” [link] “We’re seeing résumés from people in finance all the time, & that’s awesome. We’ll see how long that lasts.”

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 23, 2007

Geoffrey Arone , the founder of FLock, who is now an Entrepreneur-In-Residence in our Menlo Park office, mentioned this company to me and I thought it was worth writting a post about it. Add RSS feed. Yahoo Finance. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more.

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